Patanjali has found Ayurveda cure for COVID-19: Acharya Balkrishna

Patients took five to 15 days to be completed cured, he said

Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote during the first phase of general elections, at a polling station in Haridwar | PTI (File) Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna | PTI

Even as researchers and pharmaceutical firms across the world are burning the midnight oil to find a vaccine and medicine for the coronavirus pandemic, Patanjali CEO Acharya Balkrishna has come out a claim that Patanjali Ayurved has found a cure for COVID-19.

According to media reports, Balkrishna said when the virus began to spread across the world, a team of scientists at Patanjali Ayurved was tasked with find a cure for the disease. They worked day and night and identified herbs that had medicinal properties to cure the disease.

He further claimed that they have treated many people who had contracted COVID-19 and all of them have recovered and tested negative. Patients took five to 15 days to be completed cured, he said.

Claiming that a lot of people have recovered after taking their medicines, he said this has proved that COVID-19 can be cured by Ayurveda. “We are conducting controlled clinical trials,” he said, and promised to offer evidences for the cure in the next four to five days.

India's COVID-19 tally breached the three-lakh mark with a record single-day spike of 11,458 infections in the past 24 hours, while the death toll rose to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities.