POTENTIAL MANAGEMENT / TREATMENT OF COMPLICATIONS OF SYMPTOMS IN NOVEL CORONAVIRUS DISEASE-19 (nCOVID-19) BY UNANI POLYHERBAL DECOCTION FORMULATION: AN ALTERNATIVE THERAPY – PART –IV

Naquibul Islam, Sheikh Zahoor Ahmad*, Atiba Jan and Nida Mehraj

ABSTRACT

The Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19), is termed as Novel Coronavirus Disease-19 (nCOVID-19), is a new infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which begun in Decemebr, 2019 resulting in 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic. It was initially discovered on November 17th, 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in a 55-year-old Shrimp seller who experienced similar symptoms and whose gender was not revealed. It has proven to be the most deadly sickness in a century, posing the greatest threat and wreaking havoc around the globe. Never before has the world been more terrified of a sickness as it is now. Latest figure of Corona cases in the country is 3.59 Crores+1.68 Lakhs and deaths upto 4.84+277 Lakhs but every second, the number shoots up (Data Source: Our World in Data and JHU CSSE COVID-19 Data, Updated till 9 January,2022). However, the total statistics of people getting affected and dying are changing every movement. In a positive case of nCOVID-19, there are four groups(stages) of symptoms like Common Symptoms which include acute respiratory infection, fever, dry cough, sore throat, loss of taste, loss of smell and fatigue; Uncommon Symptoms like headache, nasal congestion, sore throat, coughing up sputum, shortness of breath, pain in muscles or joints, chills, nausea and/or vomiting,and diarrhea; Symptoms in Case of Severity of Disease like high fever, coughing up blood, and kidney failure; and Complications which include pneumonia, viral sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and kidney failure etc, depending upon the severity of the disease. As a result, there is now no treatment available, and a traditional and alternative management / treatment for this disease is urgently needed all over the world. In this connection, an attempt was made to revisit various Unani Medical (Greco-Arab Medical) Literatures, which go as back as 400 BC and onwards where several viral diseases such as the common cold, common / epidemic fever, hepatitis, measles, smallpox,and others found management / treatment in Unani System of Medicine and it should not be out of context that Complications of Symptoms in nCOVID-19, which is again a Viral disease, should also be managed / treated by Unani Herbal drugs in the form of Unani Polyherbal Decoction Formulation meant for treating such Viral disease. The details have been discussed in the manuscript.

Keywords: Potential; management; treatment; ncoronavirus; unani; polyherbal; alternative; therapy; symptoms; complications.