Bhubaneswar, May 23 -- Bhubaneswar: As India fights against the second wave of Covid-19, many people across the country have fallen back on superstitions and are opting for a host of unproven and unconventional ways of treatment to survive the deadly virus.

With hospitals and clinics struggling to cope with the hundreds of thousands of new cases each day, the crisis has led many in India's deeply close and religious society to either seek divine help or resort to alternative remedies based on pseudoscience, superstition or outright misinformation.

In such an instance, thousands of people lined up at Krishnapatnam town of Nellore in Andhra Pradesh to get herbal medicines for effective treatment of Covid-19. The herbal medicines are being...