Bangkok — Thailand’s health ministry has approved the use of a herbal plant extract to treat early stages of Covid-19 as a pilot programme amid a flare-up in the coronavirus outbreak in the Southeast Asian nation.
Andrographis Paniculata, commonly known as green chiretta, will serve as an alternate treatment to reduce the severity of the outbreak and cut treatment costs, the ministry said on Wednesday. The treatment will be available in five state-owned hospitals initially, it said...
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