Harsh Vardhan to Launch Ayush’s Standard Treatment Protocol to Fight Covid-19


Union Health Minister Harsh VardhanI will publish the ‘Ayush Standard Treatment Protocol’ today, via video conference. The ‘Ayush Standard Treatment Protocol’ will detail Ayurveda and Yoga interventions to treat the novel coronavirus.

In his fourth edition of Sunday Samvaad, Harsh Vardhan emphasized the practice of yoga, which would help improve immunity in the fight against Covid-19.

“I will post the ‘Ayush Standard Treatment Protocol’ today, via virtual conference. It will detail Ayurveda and Yoga interventions to treat COVID19,” the Union Health Minister tweeted.

The AYUSH system of medicine is helpful in managing COVID-19 and the approved guidelines have been made available to the public domain for the benefit of more than 7 lakh of professionals registered with AYUSH to manage the pandemic in a uniform manner, he had previously said. the Ministry of Health.

Responding to a question during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, Harsh Vardhan said that the AYUSH ministry has formed an interdisciplinary research and development working group. “The task force has formulated and designed clinical research protocols for prophylactic studies and complementary interventions in positive cases of COVID-19 through a comprehensive review and consultative process of highly reputable experts from different organizations across the country to study four different interventions, namely ‘Ashwagandha’, ‘Yashtimadhu’, ‘Guduchi’ plus ‘Pippali’ and an aromatic herbal formulation (AYUSH-64), “he had said.

Meanwhile, India’s coronavirus count surpassed the 66 lakh mark on Monday, data from the Union Health Ministry showed. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country is 66,23,816, including 9,34,427 active cases. The total number of cured / discharged / migrated cases was 55,86,704. Up to 1,02,685 people have lost their lives due to the deadly virus.

Maharashtra continues to be the hardest hit by the pandemic.

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