Abstract

Pranav Bhagwat*

ABSTRACT

COVID 19 is a novel pandemic with a spectrum ranging from mild disease to death. Internationally, the medical fraternity is struggling to find a cure or vaccine for this disease resulting into losses of thousands of lives. Indian system of medicine, because of its strong fundamentals and superb guidelines to tackle any novel disease, can find an answer for this. Raktadhatu is found to be a major culprit in the contact point and progress of the disease. The article provides insights into the role of raktadhatu in this process of COVID 19 starting from the contact with the patient, through various typical and atypical symptomatology and complications and even death. The article, after establishing this, predicts, future possible presentations and complications, which hitherto might have been missed by the eyes of the healthcare providers and hence many such patients may not have received required immediate therapy. The probable role of raktamokshana (bloodletting by controlled therapeutic phlebotomy) – a procedure described to be the important therapy- is also established with the help of evidences.