Use of alternative medicine to treat Covid-19 symptoms
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Covid-19, Alternative Medicine, Benefits, Medicinal PlantsAbstract
The use of alternative medicine helps to prevent the symptoms generated by Covid-19, among the methods is phytotherapy or herbal therapy, homeopathy acupuncture, among others, all with different functions such as moxibustion, for coughs, flu, lungs, pain body, breathing, etc. Although some people do not use it due to the few results in improving their health. In this article, the use of alternative medicine to treat symptoms of Covid-19 was analyzed through a quantitative exploratory approach, the population was taken through a simple random non-probabilistic sampling of 40 people from the Baños parish of Ulba between 30 At 60 years as results it was obtained that, among the most frequently used methods was phytotherapy with 65 %, followed by homeopathy with 15 % and acupuncture with 12,5 %. It was concluded that it is important to know the benefits that contributes to health using alternative medicine such as medicinal plants to improve health and in this case to a virus that has affected and caused the death of countless people
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