Did
it occurred to you that we might have the
cure for the novel coronavirus 2019 disease or COVID-19?
A few
years back prior to the introduction of the scandalous Dengvaxia vaccine which
was touted to be the miracle answer against Dengue, Filipinos in the provinces
have been using the lowly tawa-tawa as curing the mosquito borne disease.
As
for cough, our lolo and lola’s have been using lagundi as a remedy, which
evidently led for local pharmaceutical companies producing it in a commercial
scale.
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| Tawa-tawa (L) and Lagundi (R) (photo credit to owner) |
And
now comes the COVID-19 pandemic, earlier reports that the country has already
started studying/testing the virgin coconut oil as a possible cure for the
coronavirus.
The
Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will start funding the research and
development for the recognition and approval of lagundi and tawa-tawa as
potential treatments for the coronavirus disease, this according to DOST Secretary
Fortunato dela Peña.
In an interview with “The Chiefs” on Cignal TV’s One New l
The
DOST Secretary pointed out that studies have also been conducted on the
antiviral properties of lagundi and tawa-tawa, which yielded promising results.
“In the case of… lagundi and tawa-tawa, each of
these has gone through first stages of clinical trials but for different
diseases, like lagundi is really for the respiratory ailments, ubo (cough) and
tawa- tawa has been tried for dengue,” Dela Peña said.
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