Nine natural products in Cuba´s Registry of Clinical Trials. Photo: Radio Rebelde

Havana, July 11 (RHC)-- The Cuba´s Public Registry of Clinical Trials inspected nine studies of natural products last year, including four linked to the fight against COVID-19.

Dr. Johann Perdomo, head of the Natural and Traditional Medicine Department of the Ministry of Public Health, explained that with the introduction of Curmeric, which has been used in the fight against the coronavirus, there are 173 in the Basic List of Natural Products.

The specialist pointed out that Curmeric, made by the production chain between the Havana Pharmacy Company and MEDILIP Laboratories, has a proven antibacterial action and contains extracts of Curcuma longa.

Its researchers state that laboratory and clinical studies have shown its safety and it also has anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects against the bovine coronavirus, of the same subgenus of SARS-COV-2.