An Ethno Botanical Perspective of Sustainable Prevention of Covid-19
Author : Swapan Kumar Chowdhury, Swagato Mukherjee and Nayan Roy
Abstract :
A pandemic outbreak of Coronavirus has been declared by the WHO in March of 2020 as a result of the early occurence of Coronavirus-19 in China. Since then, COVID19 continued to devastate people all around the world. Human civilization has witnessed one of its greatest crises by facing 180 million of confirmed cases with 38.9 lakh deaths across the world till end of June 2021. Angiosperms include wide-ranging secondary metabolites and metabolic proteins with huge ethnomedicinal values. Though the definite mode of action of the majority of these chemical substances are yet to be known, screening of some valuable metabolites from plant and comprehensive analysis will generate treasures of effective natural medicines in the future. Natural medicines obtained from plant based products are generally safe, well-tolerated with negligible side effects, and extremely absorptive in character by the immunogenic pathway of the human body. Application of these natural drugs along with the conventional treatment may help to minimize the death rates as well as infection rates in the future. Plants are the storehouse of antimicrobial metabolites which have also long been utilized as traditional medicines against different viral infections. Appropriate method of action of these conventional medicines may be a prospective resource of successful anti-COVID drug for future implications. Highly developed bioinformatic tools have opened up an innovative field in speculating these repurposed drugs as a prospective COVID mitigator. The present review briefly summarizes the effect of different plant-derived medicinal compounds against Covid-19 has been discussed along with their targets against SARS CoV2. This review will surely provide an insight into the different plant-derived metabolites for their potential use against Covid-19 in the upcoming days.
Keywords :
Medicinal plants; secondary metabolites; sustainable covid-19 prevention
