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MANILA, Philippines — A 24-year-old doctor has developed a mouth and nasal spray formula out of virgin coconut oil (VCO) and lagundi as a potential relief for COVID-19 symptoms.
Dr. Sterling Tiu, doctor at a company based in San Pablo City, Laguna, noted that both VCO and lagundi offer promising results for symptomatic relief of COVID-19 patients based on studies.
“Ginawa namin ang formulation dahil may studies sa VCO na napatunayan na nagbigay siya ng symptomatic relief para sa COVID patients at nagprevent ng progression from mild para hindi maging moderate or severe COVID. May studies din sa lagundi na same ang results compared to VCO,” he said in an interview with ABS-CBN’s Teleradyo on Tuesday.
(We came up with the formulation because there are studies proving that VCO provides symptomatic relief for COVID patients and prevents progression from mild to moderate and severe cases. There are also studies showing the same results for lagundi.)
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“‘Yung lagundi ay one of the 10 medicinal plants recommended by DOH [Department of Health]. So naisip namin, why not combine itong VCO and lagundi to fight COVID?” he added.
(Lagundi is one of the 10 medicinal plants recommended by the DOH. So we thought, why not combine VCO and lagundi to fight COVID?)
