PhytoResp

In last few years, the world experienced an unprecedented pandemic called COVID-19. The pandemic took 6,709,387 lives and 663,248,631 positive cases (as of 8:18pm CET, 19 January 2023 according to WHO) were reported world wide. 

It has been experienced that the people who had chronic respiratory problems were particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 pandemic. It was actually a syndemic where comorbid people suffered more.

One of the main causes of respiratory problems is viral infection and in such cases no effective medicines are available so far. Herbal drugs on the other hand showed promise in giving relief to respiratory ailments. As a result more and more researchs are tilting towards phytocompounds as a remedy to such problems. 

It is, in this context, we at North Bengal University decided to create a database which will provide valuable and effective information on the plants and their constituent compounds which are essentially effective against respiratory disorders. In the present version of the database, we have provided 329 medicinal plants traditionally known to cure respiratory disorders in Darjeeling region along with the parts used.

Also we have taken a step to evaluate the efficiency of the phytocompounds through in silico methods.