Varanasi: Tea shop owner serves kadha, claims it boosts immunity against Covid-19

VARANASI: A tea shop at Jagambandi locality of the city, which was shut during the lockdown, has reopened in a new avatar. It is now serving ayurvedic kadha instead of tea, and the owner of the shop claims that kadha would enhance the immunity of the policemen of Dashashwamedh police station.
Shop owner Vijay Kumar has become a centre of attraction for selling herbal kadha amid the pandemic.
When asked about what made him think of serving kadha amid the lockdown, he said, “About three-and-a-half months back, when the country was under complete lockdown, I was advised by the inspector of Dashashwamedh police station, Siddharth Mishra, to prepare kadha for the policemen of his station. His advice made sense to me and I decided to follow it,” said Vijay.
Vijay claims that the herbal mixture increases people’s immunity against the coronavirus.
“I use as many as 15 kinds of ayurvedic herbs and ingredients to prepare kadha,” he said. Vijay charges Rs 10 for a kulhar (earthen cup) of kadha.
“It is the regular consumption of kadha from this shop that prevented all policemen of our station from contracting coronavirus. So many policemen tested positive during the duty, but not a single one from Dashashwamedh police station was infected. This is because of drinking kadha,” claimed a police personnel who was drinking the ayurvedic liquid at Vijay’s shop on Saturday.
“It is good for health particularly when a pandemic has ravaged the country,” said Sanjay Chaurasiya, a customer at Vijay’s shop.