Immunomodulatory Foods and Functional Plants for COVID-19 Prevention: A Review

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has swept across the globe, affecting over 179 countries, with about 650,805 thousand deaths globally and over 16,341,920 million reported cases in the world. Hence, the need for novel drugs and different approaches for high quality treatment of the novel coronavirus may be a necessity. Since, the commencement of the coronavirus spread, significant efforts have been made to forestall and cure the virus by World Health Organization (WHO). However, no particular treatment has been certified, although, therapeutic methods have been outlined but, these therapeutic approaches have different drawbacks and lack the specified performance for the treatment of the new coronavirus disease. Thus, in response to these therapeutic drawbacks, this review helps to suggest possible immunomodulatory foods and plant species which could be used as anti-SARS-Cov2 therapy to forestall infection and strengthen immunity of the masses against SARS-CoV-2 and in COVID-19 patients.