In the current times of COVID-19 pandemic, fear and anxiety have caused an increase in number of people who indulge in self-diagnosis and resort to self-medication on the basis of information available online including home remedies without proven safety and efficacy. Currently, to be very precise no medication is proven to be a cure of COVID-19, with most of the medications available being just of experimental therapies. The medications being promoted aggressively don’t have any scientific basis that they help in treating the infection.