Although she says Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the Caribbean have a variety of medicinal plants that could support the body in the treatment of COVID-19, integrative medicine specialist Dr Asante Le Blanc adds that vaccines remain the best protection.
“…It is important to understand that no herb will cure COVID-19 but it will alleviate the symptoms,” says Le Blanc.
Integrative medicine is defined as the use of allopathy and herbal medicines to treat patients.
From a Chinese medicine perspective, Dr Le Blanc said, certain herbs can be used at certain phases of the COVID-19 disease to support the body better and most importantly in the convalescence of the illness.