Revisión del efecto antiviral: e inmunomodulador de plantas Medicinales a propósito de la pandemia COVID-19.

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus is the greatest issue facing global health due to its rapid expansion. Given this scenario, the phytotherapy has demonstrated its importance since time immemorial providing therapeutic innovations. In this context, a review of the official bibliographic references of the country was carried out, crossing them with the Natural medicine database of the Karolinska Institute, obtaining 25 medicinal plants with antiviral and immunomodulatory effects. Then, three databases were used: Scopus, Google Scholar and BVS-MTCI, which through a focused screening in both effects for RNA viruses, it was left 79 articles, corresponding to 14 medicinal plants; of these plants, 7 presented anti-coronavirus effects: Sambucus nigra, Echinacea purpurea, Astragalus membranaceus, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Eucalyptus globulus, Aloe vera, and Camellia sinensis; the last three from these, in addition, have a potential effect against SARS-CoV-2, and for this reason, an in-depth study of their therapeutic properties is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]