Nellore: A large number of people are heading to a town in Andhra Pradesh to get ayurvedic cure for Covid-19, reports said.
Long queues were seen at the facility at Krishnapatanam after lawmaker Kakani Govardhan Reddy of the governing YSRCP party said that medicines would be distributed on Friday, reports said.
The dash for the facility in Nellore district caused a three-kilometer traffic jam.
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The short-lived distribution of medicines, which started amid chaos, was halted after the authorities stepped in following reports that Covid norms were being violated and police asked people to leave the site.
The medication prepared by a local Ayurveda practitioner, Anandiah, has been attracting people over the past few days. He became a local sensation after visuals of his treatment went viral on social media.
The medicine is given for free, which is in the form of pellets or liquid drops and contains natural antioxidants and components such as pepper, ginger, neem, turmeric, palm jaggery, honey, black cumin, cloves, java plum shoots, mango shoots, amla, hyacinth leaves, pippinta leaves, Calotropis procera, thorny brinjal and Tinospora codifolio, commonly known as giloy.
The district administration has formed a committee consisting of AYUSH Ministry officials to evaluate the efficacy of the medication.
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Nellore collector KVN Chakradhar Babu said that the committee did not come across any adverse effects on people who took the medicine.
While samples have been sent for testing at a laboratory in Hyderabad, the results are awaited.
Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is expected to decide on the issue, reports said. He convened a high-level meeting and discussed the pharmacology of the medication and its distribution. Reddy has decided to send a special team of ICMR members to Krishnapatnam to examine the efficacy of the ayurvedic medication.
(with agency inputs)
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