Here are a few queries related to Ayurveda and COVID 19 answered

1. COMMON QUERIES AND ANSWERS ON AYURVEDA &
COVID 19
Dr. Remya Krishnan MD PhD Ayurveda

2. Is COVID 19 a new disease for Ayurveda?
• It is like asking whether ABCD alphabets are new alphabets for Hindi
language .
• Ayurveda does not care for COVID 19.
• The perception, mode of exploration, explanation and management of
health and all diseases are unique in Ayurveda. All infective diseases
irrespective of pathogens are comprehended based on host factors and
host response in this science and highly specific and specialised diagnostic
and treatment principles oriented on host response for any kind infective
fever is explained in the basic and applied science of Ayurveda . The
physician requires exceptional intelligence and wisdom in knowledge and
practice of Science Based Medicine of Ayurveda to understand and reverse
infection . If the guidelines are pertinently chosen and applied, recovery is
mostly within three days

3. Ayurveda doctors treat only mild COVID 19 and do prevention
only, why?
• The people who set this rule probably believe that COVID 19
infection is inaccessible for Ayurveda . All the diseases start mild only
and advance hour by hour emerging complications in a situation
where there is no scientific treatment done to cut down its progress
and reverse the same. So a medical system which can reverse a
disease in mild stage CAN ONLY REVERSE the same in MODERATE and
SEVERE STAGES also, fact which is unknown to the world today.
• Prevention of infection and its progress (not positive RT –PCR which
detect viral particles ) is the greatest determinant of saving lives with
quality. A system which can prevent infection and its progress CAN
BEST SAVE LIVES and abolish fear of people

4. Ayurveda doctors treat asymptomatic COVID 19 ?
• Originally there is not asymptomatic disease in Ayurveda. Disease is
the body response to an adverse condition in the body ( let it be
infection or inflammation or altered immunity or hormonal
dysfunction). Mere presence of virus particles in body is not a disease
entity in Ayurveda and unimportant unless it facilitates a body
response to the same.
• For this reason, Ayurveda doctors are not meant to treat
asymptomatic cases as it is baseless and unscientific approach in
Ayurveda

5. Does Ayurveda kill germs ?
• Ayurveda does not aim at killing germs , Ayurveda aims at facilitating
healthy immune response against harmful pathogens and enable to
destroy them by natural means and flush them off from the body .
The cause circumstances which facilitate aggravation and alleviation
of any infective disease is well explained in the science and a Science
Based Evidence Based Medical Practitioner can easily apply them to
support natural fast recovery of the patient , many times even before
the pathogens are detected in labs
• Abolishing chances and circumstances of disease ( infection) is given
sole emphasis in the science and not direct killing germs .

6. Does Ayurveda take long time to win infection?
• Winning an acute infection requires enabling the activation and
modulation of healthy innate immune system to facilitate destruction
of pathogens/ deactivation of toxins in the moment of their
recognition itself and this is possible by the guidelines of Science
Based Evidence Based Ayurveda.So the subject gets rid of infection
mostly within 1-2 days provided he knows the non medication
guidelines of Science Based Evidence Based Ayurveda

7. Does Ayurveda recommend vaccination ?
• Vaccination is meant to develop antibodies against the virus by
adaptive immune system ( second stage) artificially. Ayurveda
advocate scientific methods to ged rid of infection by innate immune
system(in the first stage of infection itself) by naturally facilitating
formation of exact antibodies ( no question of shift or drift) against
the pathogen and protect the individual. When new and new
pathogens emerge with time also , as there are innate
scientificspecific and specialised methods in Ayurvedic science to
modulate the innate immune system to destroy their virulence and
circumstances of virulence, the system does not recommend any
artificial means to develop antibodies .

8. Can Ayurveda abolish fear of infective diseases ?
• If there is any medical system which can confidently stand upright to
fight and win pathogens in any period, present and future times , I
would proudly say that it is Ayurveda. But Ayurveda doctors are to be
equipped with highly specialised knowledge and skills to combat
infective diseases which is not at all there in current times in
Ayurveda medical institutes
• For this reason, they are not equipped and confident to do their part
• Science Based Evidence Based Ayurveda is the only solution for
tackling this problem and save the world from infections as well as
fear of infective diseases