Adaptogens as potential drugs for prevention of infectious diseases

The work is devoted to the analysis of scientific research on prevention infectious diseases by adaptogens, proposed a prominent domestic toxicologist and pharmacologist Professor Nikolai Vasilyevich Lazarev school scientists he created. role adaptogens (dibazol, Eleutherococcus, Rhodiola rosea, Scutellaria Baicalensis) in creating state non-specifically increased body resistance (NSIBR according N.V. Lazarev) for viral diseases, including coronavirus infection, was evaluated. Analysis pharmacological properties synthetic adaptogen bendazol (dibazol) opened Lazarev, showed that drug has number positive properties: antiviral stimulates immunity attack agents, being an inducer endogenous interferon; antiproliferative inhibits replication viruses inside host cell; immunomodulatory corrects violations protective functions body. Dibazol also mild effect after vaccination, stimulating production immunoglobulins. These dibazol make it possible recommend herbal (tinctures infection.