A Case Study how Ayurvedic Preventative Actions Affect Covid 19 in First Contacts
Author : Girish Tillu and Sarika Chaturvedi
Abstract :
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) poses a serious risk to society, particularly healthcare workers, because it can spread when a patient's illness worsens asymptomatically. Both intimate encounters and droplets can spread the infection. It is thought that the infectivity begins before to the onset of symptoms and that it considerably diminishes seven days after symptoms appear. The goal of this research is to examine how Ayurvedic preventative practises affect Covid-19 initial encounter. The Maharagama Gramasewa Division's COVID-19 first contact name list was included in the descriptive simple random sample that was chosen for the study. The questionnaire was used to collect data after the lead investigator's phone call. Data was gathered before and after the drug delivery period of two weeks. The SPSS (version 16) programme was used to analyse the data. The validated scale was utilised as the rating scale (11). The standard deviation was computed using the frequency means. Using chi-square, relationships between various variables have been examined. All respondents were Buddhist, and the majority of them were male, making up 60% of the sample, while the female respondents made up 20%. The standard deviation is 37.66 + 18.43 times the mean age of 37.66. 40% of the sample's participants were aged 41 to 50, making up the majority of the group. The study's findings also show that more than two thirds of the respondents took all of the Ayurvedic precautions stated above to avoid contracting the covid illness. More than half of the responders among them had utilised herbal steaming, Ayurvedic drugs, herbal gargling, and herbal Dumayanaya, with respective percentages of 82%, 76%, 68%, and 64%. According to the study's findings, the majority of respondents steamed adathoda, lime, and yakinaran leaves to avoid the covid-19 infection. Additionally, we have established that the Corriandrum water that has been boiled has been used for steaming. X2(1, N=50) = 0.006, P=0.005 shows a significant link between the initial contacts' health status after two weeks of herbal steaming. When the P value is less than 0.05, it demonstrates that there was a connection between the initial contacts' health state and their use of herbal steam throughout their quarantine period.
Keywords :
Covid 19, first contacts, ayurvedic preventative practises
