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A Scientific Review of Medicinal Properties of Household Plant Products

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Tarandeep Kaur , Ashish Raina *
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( Assistant Professor, Kanya Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar, Punjab)
*Email of corresponding author: Raina.aashish@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
In the unprecedented COVID-19 times, the development in the philosophies about the

medicinal properties of plants and the use of various by products in immunity boosting and

curing various malfunctions in the body can improve the quality of life (Sultan et al. 2014).
Regular use of various herb combinations results in an increased immunity (Japheth et al.

2021). About 20,000 plant based products (species and herbs) are known to have medicinal
properties, but only about 800 plant communities rely on the local populace for their use in

treating different medical maladies (Dev, 1997). The paper aims to scientifically review the
properties of various plant products in increasing the immunity, leading towards an improved

quality of life in the society. Secondary data printed in the listed scientific journals shall be

reviewed and cited in the paper to highlight and meet the aims of the study. The paper shall
benefit the society in understanding the common and house hold plants based products,

knowing their scientific nomenclatures and mark best combinations to increase immunity viz

a viz home cure common body malfunctions.
Keywords: Covid-19, herbs, plants and by products, immunity boosting.

INTRODUCTION
The residents of China (Hubei province) acquired “SARS2‐like” (CORONA) pneumonia

(originally called “SARS‐COV by the WHO”) (Wang et al., 2020) in December 2019. The
unfortunate rise in COVID-19 case is a major uncertainty for mankind in the past. Up to May

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7 2021, 15.6 cr. confirmed cases have been reported in the world with 32.6 lakh ill-fated
deaths. Also, 9.23 cr. Residents have been recovered around the world by this day
(worldwide Wikipedia). This virus strand is a beta-coronavirus, which has its origins in the

coronavirus family and shows similar symptoms of MERS, to which we've seen in the
Middle East (Gurunathan et al., 2020).

Coronaviruses are non-segmented positive‐stranded RNA viruses (family: Coronaviridae)
which contain genome that envelops its nucleo-capsid. Pleomorphic viruses range from 80 to

220 nanometres in diameter. It varies between 26 and 32 kilogausses (MacLachlan &

Dubovi, 2017). But this strand is distinct from other Coronavirus, mainly in the S protein and
lab poly-protein (Kannan, Ali, Sheeza, & Hemalatha, 2020). Like bronchitis, hepatitis, and

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