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3. International Confereans on Covid 19 Studies, Ankara, Turkey, 25 - 27 December 2020
SARS-CoV-2 emerged in
Wuhan, China in 2019, and has taken hold in entire world in a short time. This
virus, identified "Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19)" by the World
Health Organization (WHO), causes severe acute respiratory distress syndrome.
The number of people infected with the virus increases day by day and this situation
is the reason for people's deaths. COVID-19 binding to angiotensin-converting
enzyme 2 (ACE2) and spreads through the respiratory tract. COVID-19 is an RNA
virus and this virus shows cough, fever and flu-like symptoms similar to other
coronaviruses. These symptoms might be seen in entire age groups, but the
elderly and the individuals who have chronic disease history are defined as a
high-risk group. After severe pneumonia, the virus can lead to acute
respiratory distress syndrome and multiple organ failure, causing death in
infected individuals. There is no specific medicine or vaccine to treat
COVID-19. In order to protect against this virus, it is necessary to wear a
mask, pay attention to hand hygiene and social distance. Because of the fact that
there is no medical treatment or protection procedure, people can tend to
utilize herbal remedies by acquiring immunity to viruses. Ginger (Zingiber
officinale) is one of these medicinal plants. Ginger has been utilized due
to various treatments of diseases for a long time in alternative medicine. These properties should be provided by an
ideal anti-COVID-19 agent; being safe for patients, ensuring antiviral
immunity, increasing repair of tissue and demonstrating strong antiviral effects.
It is known that the ginger that ensures whole these criteria, additionally,
contains tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) which defined as
cytokine of anti-influenza. It has been reported that the ginger which not only
increases the immun response, but also decreases viral replication. Ginger has
the property of inhibiting prostaglandin, leukotriene biosynthesis and
cyclooxygenase, lipoxygenase activities. in-silico studies conducted
according with these known effects have also shown that the active ingredients
of ginger have encouraging effects against COVID-19. It has been observed that
the use of ginger in various mixtures has positive effects on COVID-19
patients. This study, will discuss the impacts on the course of the disease the
ginger and the mixture which contains ginger, used in the treatment COVID-19.