IL6 and COVID-19: Medicinal plants such as V. amygdalina and E. longifolia demonstrated suppression effects on specific pro-inflammatory cytokines correlated with worsened COVID-19 outcome such as the IL-6 (Adedapo et al., 2014; Omoregie and Pal, 2016; Onasanwo et al., 2017; Asante et al., 2019; Ruan at al., 2019; Zeng et al., 2020).