BANGKOK, Aug 8 (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Dr Sant Chaiyodsilp, a heart surgeon and family medicine specialist, said the research team studying the use of the Thai herb Fah Talai Jon (Andrographis paniculata) for the treatment of Covid-19 needed to consider a larger sample before coming to conclusions.
On Saturday, the Thai research team who had conducted a randomised controlled trial and concluded that Andrographis paniculata could be used to treat Covid-19 and that it has a beneficial effect in reducing the incidence of pneumonia, withdrew their paper from the archives of the peer-valued journal, "medRxiv", due to an error in calculating the significance of the difference.
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