Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used against COVID-19

Table 4

Antiviral activity of the most cited plants in our survey against different types of viruses.

	Herpes simplex virus 1	Herpes simplex virus 2	Rotavirus Wa strain	Adenovirus type 7	SARS-CoV-2	Influenza A and B	HIV
Eucalyptus	+	+	+	+	+	−	−
Allium sativum	+	+	−	−	−	+	+
Citrus limon	+	+	−	−	−	−	−

+: effective against virus; −: no effect of plant against the virus; ^∗study carried out by molecular docking. HIV: human immunodeficiency virus.