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Tea, Haritaki extracts may act as potential therapeutic options against COVID-19
drug will be proved after trials.The research team led by institute professor Ashok Kumar Patel, said that medical plants can provide a cost-effective therapeutic option to curb the severity of the viral disease in humans, with minimal toxicity.The team from IIT's Kusuma School of Biological Sciences (KSBS) screened about 51 medicinal plants on 3CLProprotease (3-chymotrypsin-like protease) of the virus, which is necessary for processing the viral polyproteins and therefore emerged as an interesting premise for the development of drugs targeting the virus.cThe research found that the targeting of this protein may be able to halt the replication of the virus."Indian herbal and medicinal plants have a vast repository of bioactive components