Abstract:
Siddhars said about various diseases and the treatment methods with herbs, minerals and
animal products. In Siddha literatures viral fevers can be compared to Vatha Kapha Suram
and therefore decoction for this Suram is taken from classical Siddha text book and the
ingredients are searched for pharmacological activity and toxicity study from 118
published journal papers from Pubmed, Scopus, Google Scholar, Research Gate and Science
Direct. Collected data is entered in MS excel and analysed using RFC score. All together
there are 51 pharmacological activities are published for these nine ingredients. In which
Anti-inflammatory has RFC=1, other properties like antipyretic, anti-tussive,
bronchodialator, anti-asthmatic, analgesic, neuro-regenerative, neuroprotective, anti-
diarrhoeal, anti-emetic, neuroprotective, analgesic, sedative has more than 0.55 RFC score.
More than this cardioprotective, renoprotective, hepatoprotective, and other protective
properties are present in more than 50% of ingredients. In toxicity studies no toxic effects
are seen in in vivo studies for the ingredients The Suvai, Thanmai, Pirivu, in Siddha aspect,
of these ingredients can highly reduces Vatha and Kapha disorders. Therefore, the
decoction shows significant pharmacological activity for the sign and symptoms of viral
infections.
