Treatment of patients affected by COVID

Covid Milestones

Read a case report on managing COVID by Dr. A. Sudheer and Dr. G Meera published in the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine

a. 280 cases of covid are documented at Sreehareeyam Ayurveda (of around 3000 cases of covid seen in both the waves) through telemedicine. Team Dhanvantari a voluntary group of senior yoga practitioners and Ayurveda doctors was organised at Sreehareeyam to serve the first covid wave in June 2020.

b. Covid hypoxia treated without any oxygen support/ ventilation Incidentally 20 covid patients with respiratory distress due to covid hypoxia with comorbidities, who could not be hospitalised with spo2 ranging from 65/78/82/84 to 93, were also managed successfully at home by administering only Ayurvedic telemedicine, seeking no ventilator or oxygen support. 7 post covid hypoxia were weaned from external oxygen support/ ventilator.

c. First in the world to do Ayurveda telemedicine at Anand hospitals ICU We headed the Telemedicine team of the Covid ICU at Anand hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh during September- October 2020 and prescribed Ayurveda medicines to help recover the critically ill covid patients with hypoxia. We worked in tandem with Dr. Sanjay Jain MBBS MS who prescribed allopathic medicines for the same covid cases. From May 1 2020, a longitudinal analysis of 1000 patients who were admitted to the hospital and discharged after recovery revealed that patients who were administered Ayurveda medicines in an Integrated approach showed significantly (t 848= 15.1; p<0.0001, two-tailed unpaired t test ) faster recovery then those who were not administered Ayurveda preventive medicines.

d. Village covid prevention work Ayurveda Covid prevention medicines (Indukantha kashayam/ sudarsana choornam tablet, Ayush kwath, Aswagandha Choornam tablets) were given to 4911 families covering over 19084 people in Kattiyampandhal, Salavakkam, Kurumparai, Seethapuram, Nellimedu, Iyampettai, Idayampudoor, Pullipakkam, Seethanacherry, Sathanancherry,
Kavithandalam, Kavoor and studied for a period of three months. Out of the total population only 14 people were tested positive for covid and all were mild cases.

e. Seva Bharathi, Meerut. Dr. Meera and Dr. Sudheer did voluntary tele-consultation for the covid affected people in Uttar Pradesh through Seva Bharathi in the month of May 2021