JAIPUR: The National Institute of
Ayurveda (NIA), Centre’s apex ayurveda institute in Jaipur, has decided to treat patients suffering from post-Covid ailments.
The health department has already acknowledged post-Covid complications as a serious problem and to address it, the department had recently issued orders of setting up
separate OPDs
for such patients.
Separate wards for recovered patients have also been established in addition to 181 helpline providing guidance and counselling to patients along with helping them to get treatment in hospitals.
The NIA will inaugurate the post-Covid rehabilitation OPD on Monday. “It has come to our notice that a large number of patients need treatment after recovery. For such patients, we will provide treatment through ayurveda medicines and also we will do panchkarma,” said Dr CR Yadav, head of the department (sharir kriya), NIA.
He said patients after recovering from Covid, complain of difficulty in breathing, bodyache, cough, depression, heart ailment, sleep disorder and in some cases lung fibrosis. “We will provide treatment to the patients for all such post-Covid complications,” said Dr Yadav.
Moreover, a regional raw drug repository will be inaugurated.
The health department on October 7 had issued Centre’s
coronavirus preventive and
prophylactic advocacy
in ayurveda, which says that in ayurveda perspectives, Covid comes under the category of agantuj jwar with vata predominani symptoms initially, which may further lead to severe complications (upadravas). The ayurveda medicine can be used for prophylactic measures/ immunodulatory drugs.
The advocacy further says
measures
shall be taken to strengthen the immune system through diet and lifestyle practices. It also talked about the use of agastya harityaki samashamani vati, trikatu (pippali marich and shunthi) powder and pratimarsa nasya (instill two drops of anu taila/sesame oil in each nostril daily in the morning for prophylactic measures.
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