LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – Bolivian Health Authorities are pushing traditional medicine to prevent more CODIV-19 contagions from the accelerated increase in cases of overreach to the Andean peace.
The singular olor of the eucalyptus and manzanilla plant, among other grasses, is permitted on Tuesdays in the branches of the Department of Health in La Paz while there are various remedies and explanations that hacerlos hervir and vaporize help prevent the virus. It is not the first time that the governing body has approached Bolivians to use traditional medicine to prevent a pandemic, but the World Health Organization (WHO) does not recognize any remedy that can prevent the virus.
“These are expectorant plants”, says The Associated Press the head of Traditional Medicine in La Paz, Vicente Yanahuaya Carrión. “Traditional medicine has helped us to prevent it, in some cases also for the majority of COVID-19”, added.
In the event there were infusions of these plants that in the rebrote he wanted to take protagonism.
Marco Videla, an assistant at the event, states that by 2020 he will be dealing with the infestation and recovery of the infusions and vapors of the plants that he will help save his life. “Because it’s thick, the virus is alloyed here (in the gargantuan) and has been treated so that it does not travel to the pulmonary glands, it is known that its many medicines with milk or lemon have helped”, he said.
Half a week ago, the use of plants was also flown around by President Luis Arce, who made sure that conventional medicine, like “its absolutely complementary and useful ones,” increased the number of contagions by passing it on.
In Bolivia, the ancestral medicine was specially made in the Andean region, where the curanders had great influence among the people for ten millennial races.
A record of 66 deaths was reported by COVID-19 in a day and 1,781 cases were reported, according to the Ministry of Health. Bolivia has an accumulation of 202,818 contagios and 10,051 decesos.