Bolivia impulses traditional medicine against COVID-19

Health authorities in Bolivia are pushing for traditional medicine to prevent more CODIV-19 contagions because of the accelerated increase in cases of overreach in the Andean country.

The singular olor of the eucalyptus and manzanilla plant, among other grasses, is permitted on Mondays to the health department’s services in La Paz while various curiosities and explanations are made that helpers recover 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 it,” he said.

Half a week ago, the use of plants was also introduced by President Luis Arce, who ensured that conventional medicine, like “its absolutely complementary and useful”, had increased the number of contagions by passing the pais.

In Bolivia, ancestral medicine was specially arranged in the Andean region, where curanders had great influence among the people to have 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.

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