Nellore: Researchers have started examining the efficacy of the ayurvedic medication prepared by Andhra Pradesh's local Ayurveda practitioner Anandaiah to cure Covid.
The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) will examine the ayurvedic medication in four stages.
CCRAS has handed over the responsibility to the Regional Ayurveda Research centre in Vijayawada and the SV Ayurveda Hospital in Tirupati.
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In the first stage, experts will study around 500 people who took the medicine and consider if any adverse effect developed after taking the medication.
For this, police will trace down their contact details.
Even the Covid test reports of these people will be studied and their current health status will be checked.
All the details will be analysed according to CCRAS Proforma.
The National Ayurvedic Research Institute has directed doctors to complete the exercise within two days as the preliminary diagnosis will be concluded after drug effect analysis.
The entire examination will take nearly five weeks.
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Last week, Anandaiah distributed the medicine for free, which was 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.
Earlier, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy convened a high-level meeting and discussed the pharmacology of the medication and its distribution.
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