SIDDHA PERSPECTIVE DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATION IN RELATION TO COVID 19 MANIFESTATIONS - AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY.

Siddha system of medicine is one of the most traditional medicines and has many unique preparations of higher order internal medicines, external therapies for various diseases. But still the validation of the reliable diagnostic tools has not yet been documented. Covid-19 which was a massive epidemic in 2019, and the world is still in search of medicines and diagnostic parameters. The Siddha's Eight-fold diagnostic tool, Neerkuri and neikuri are very sensitive and exclusively Siddha methods of diagnostic urine examination propounded by Sage Theraiyar. This is an efficient method in elucidating the prognosis of the given disease. This Observational study, evaluates the Eight-fold Diagnostic tools and Neerkuri, Neikuri among the COVID Patients. COVID patients were selected based on their CORADS score and studied with the eight-fold diagnostic tools and exclusively with Neerkuri and Neikuri using the guidelines mentioned as per the Siddha Literature. Based on the observation of the pattern of spread of oil drop in the urine of subjects, and by recording the changes of the En vagai thervu the results were recorded and tabulated. From the obtained results it may be concluded that 70% of the neikkuri findings were in pearl shape indicating kabam. In future, clinical studies will be conducted to standardize this Siddha Diagnostic tools in other diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]