Yoga-Mimamsa (Jan 2021)

Effect of naturopathy and yoga therapies as an adjuvant to conventional medicine in the management of COVID-19

  • A Mooventhan,
  • N Manavalan,
  • Y Deepa,
  • N Mangaiarkarasi,
  • K Kahlilsubramanian,
  • L Nivethitha

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/ym.ym_22_20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 53, no. 1
pp. 75 – 77

Abstract

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the infectious disease affecting many countries globally. This case study was performed to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and effect of integrated naturopathy and yoga therapies (INYT) (i.e., conventional medicine + yoga and naturopathy) on the number of hospital stay and symptom score in a patient with COVID-19. A 39-year-old married male was diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 27, 2020. During the hospital stay, the patient underwent INYT. Adherence to INYT was good and the patient did not report any serious adverse effects during the intervention period. The length of hospital stay was 11 days. Which is less than the median hospital stay observed in previous studies and the symptom score reduced from 6 (day 1) to 0 (day 6). Thus, INYT might reduce the length of the hospital stay with symptoms and active infection and also is feasible and safe in a patient with COVID-19.

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