It has been found that the medicine has totally cleared their bodies of the coronavirus. The Ayurveda Department has approved Bandara’s potion as a supplementary food, but not as a drug for the pandemic. Clinical trials have been carried out for this potion at the Watupitiwala COVID-19 Treatment Centre led by a team of Western medical doctors. At the same time promoting the product, especially by the State is similarly counterproductive, before the syrup is scientifically proved to be successful
The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) seems to be in extreme desperation in dealing with the current COVID-19 pandemic, going by the unofficial recognition and promotion awarded by the pro-government politicians and media to what is called an indigenous medicine that is said to have the capability to cure the deadly disease, that has already claimed over 69 million lives world over.