What can help in prevention and cure of Covid -19: peeping into the Ayurvedic classics

Covid-19, infection of Corona Virus, is now a pandemic and a burning problem of the human society. Even the developed countries are not being able to fight with the virus successfully and loosing even lakhs of human resource. Searching for the preventive and curative measures the scientists are spending sleepless nights, but till now all efforts are nullified by the virus. As per information available the virus is mesmerizing the researchers by showing newer characters and change of character time to time. Hence need of new weapon /way to prevent / cure the condition can be felt to be the need of time. Ayurveda, the science of life, originated in India before thousands of years, can be considered “not only to be a science dealing with health but also a culture”. The Ayurvedic Samhitas are the creator of roadmap for the human society. There are description of good conduct, daily behavior, helpful physical and mental activity, means to become a responsible citizen, selection and use of healthy food and many other facts covering almost all the directions. Discussion on diet is a major and markable aspect of the Ayurvedic Samhitas which is based upon almost all aspects of diet, like, selection, preservation, preparation, consumption etc. A detail discussion on the qualities of food materials for daily use with the aim to prevent diseases and also at the diseased state is a major quality of the Ayurvedic books. Since the human society is now busy in searching the way to escape from the dreadful virus and diet is an important factor influencing in the aspect hence an effort is made here to prepare a guideline for use of the healthy as well as diseased persons to prevent infection and also for quick, uncomplicated recovery from the disease.