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Rev Cubana Plant Med 2022; 27 (1)

Functional foods and medicinal plants versus COVID-19

Hernández PM, Zayas GM, Martínez FF, Brito FY, Medina CB, González SN

Language: Spanish
References: 15
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The world has been suffering from the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic since December 2019. To date there is no specific treatment for such a deadly disease, but there are some plants with different phytochemical components that help the body to combat and reduce the sequelae along with the other treatments.
Objective: To identify foods and medicinal plants that could be useful in the prevention, treatment and recovery of patients with COVID-19.
Methods: Theoretical methods and analysis, and interpretation of available information on foods and medicinal plants and their usefulness in COVID-19 were used. It was conducted a search that included more than 50 original, review and systematic review articles in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Results: The integrity of nutritional status contributes significantly to protecting people against contagion by different infectious agents and during convalescence associated with any type of inflammatory process, including infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There are countless treatments for viruses that include natural products such as plants of different species with antiviral, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, antioxidant and protective properties of cell membranes that have shown some effect on the viruses that cause respiratory infections.
Conclusions: 11 medicinal plants with antiviral, immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effect are recognized. These actions were evaluated in preclinical and clinical studies. Of these, eight have in silico studies demonstrating their anti-SARS CoV2 action, nine have demonstrated immunomodulatory action, and all have anti-inflammatory action. Micronutrients present in functional foods play an important role in the immune system for the prevention, treatment and recovery of COVID-19 patients.


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