Abstract

QUEEN OF HERBS TULSI (OCIMUM SANCTUM) IMMUNOMODULATORY ACTIVITIES AND SYSTEMIC SYMPTOMATIC TREATMENT OF NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)

*Vishwakarma Ravi Kumar, Dr. Ram Garg, 3Manish Kumar, Dr. Deepak Kumar Tarique Hussain and Dr. Asha Rani

ABSTRACT

Holy basil or Tulsi (Ocimum Sanctum), Species O. tenuiflorum is an aromatic plant, family Lamiaceae. Cultivated for religious and traditional medicine purpose, widely used as a herbal tea and has a state within the Vaishnava era of Hinduism, means devotees perform worship like Holi basil or leaves. Contains some phytochemical constituents of Tulsi like-Oleanolic acid, Ursolic acid, Rosmarinic acid, Eugenol, Carvacrol, Linalool and beta-Caryophyllene. In This time practitioners for curing various diseases, parts like as leaves, stem, flowers, root, seed, even whole plant of Ocimum Sanctum Linn, Mostly Leaves and stem is very important role for medicinal purpose. O. tenuiflorum, Krishna and Rama Tulsi has been reported very effective and spiritual herbs. its constitutents properties reported by world health organization effectiveness in various viruses and bacterial infection, have no any side effect. corona virus affect the respiratory system couses may be serious role in human body, recently corona virus that can spread between animals and humans begun in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Ayurveda is the world’s oldest medical system that can treat any disease without side effects. we hypothesize that holy basil may be effective in the prevention and management of novel corona virus disease also increase immune response with safety.

Keywords: Immunomodulatory activities of Tulsi, Covid-19, Treatment and Symptomatic of novel corona virus, Tulsi.