USE OF AYURVEDIC FORMULATION FOR INFLUENZA LIKE ILLNESS: A PILOT STUDY

  • Pravesh Agarwal
  • Shuchi Mahajan
  • Manju Sharma
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Pravesh Agarwal, Shuchi Mahajan, and Manju Sharma, “USE OF AYURVEDIC FORMULATION FOR INFLUENZA LIKE ILLNESS: A PILOT STUDY”, ijmhs, vol. 11, no. 03 (May - June), pp. 1650–1655, May 2021.
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Abstract

Background: Ayurvedic medicines (Kadhas) has become the best-selling remedies for influenza-like illness (ILI) these days, yet much is not known about the efficacy of the these drugs in reducing the symptoms of ILI. The aim of the study is to assess the efficacy of these medicines in alleviation of symptoms of  ILI in the adults. We conducted a pilot study to assess whether these formulations help in alleviation of symptoms of ILI.

Methods: A observational study was designed and patients having symptoms of ILI were screened and enrolled by trained authors during an encounter for acute respiratory illness with symptoms of fever, cough, running nose, wheeze, headache, muscle aches, sore throat and fatigue. A total of 51 subjects were recruited from the general population. The 27 were instructed to take Ayurvedic formulation provide by research coordinator along with standard treatment. Rest 24 were provided with standard treatment. The primary outcome included the time to alleviation of symptoms and the incidence of complications.

Results: In this study, no significant differences were found in the time to alleviation of symptoms, incidence of complications, time until becoming afebrile, or rate of severe illness among the combination treatment group and standard treatment group. No adverse drug reactions and drug intolerance was observed to Ayurvedic formulation or to standard treatment during the follow-up periods.

Conclusions: Although limited in terms of number of patients, our results suggested that, Ayurvedic formulation has yet to show a clear advantage over conventional treatments in the treatment of influenza like illness. The results support the feasibility of a large-scale randomized controlled trial  to confirm these findings.

Keywords: Ayurvedic kadhas, Influenza like illness, Combination group, Standard treatment group.

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