MANILA — Despite the noted health benefits of virgin coconut oil, tawa-tawa and lagundi, these are still "no substitute" for COVID-19 vaccines, according to scientists doing in-depth studies on the efficacy of the organic products against the respiratory disease.
“Lagundi will not replace your vaccination. Please lang, do not use it to prevent COVID-19 and say 'di na ako magpapabakuna ,” Dr. Cecilia Maramba-Lazarte, UP Manila’s Director for the Institute of Herbal Medicine, said in an online forum. Other scientists—Dr. Imelda Angeles-Agdeppa, director of Department of Science and Technology–Food and Nutrition Research Institute, and Dr. Philip Ian Padilla, UP Visayas Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs—also made the same call.“Whether tawa-tawa is going to be effective or that significant for COVID-19, I still cannot say. We have to wait for the data we are crunching right now,” Padilla said.
Based on the latest results of their studies, it was concluded that lagundi “can be safely used for the symptomatic treatment of mild COVID” disease.Data on tawa-tawa research is still being analyzed. To date, the Philippines has fully immunized more than 32.2 million people or 41.76 percent of the government's target.
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