How to treat COVID-19 with TCM

Passing on the experience

In January, crowds of people were seen in a Wuhan hospital, which caused a large number of cross infections.

In late January and early February, people in four groups of fever, close contacts, suspected patients and under medical observation were isolated intensively and received Chinese medicine decoctions in Wuhan. Does TCM treatment work? Testing and statistics showed that the positive rate of the people in the four groups was up to 80 percent in early February, but after taking TCM for 10 days, the positive rate decreased to 30 percent, and in late February, less than 10 percent were tested positive. TCM functioned in preventing and blocking the progression of COVID-19.

The second experience was to divide people in groups with their symptoms for scientific treatment. Patients with mild symptoms were separated from the ones with severe symptoms. The patients with mild symptoms were treated at the makeshift hospitals (Fangcang Yiyuan in Chinese pinyin) and those with severe symptoms were treated at designated hospitals.

At Jiangxia Makeshift Hospital, which Zhang Boli took charge of, 564 patients with mild and moderate symptoms received TCM treatment. Among them, not one patient turned into a severe case, no patient after discharge tested positive again, and no medical workers were infected.

The third was the integration use of TCM and Western medicines for severe patients. Professor Liu Qingquan from Beijing TCM Hospital led the treatment with both TCM and Western drugs for some medical staff who were infected at Wuhan Center Hospital. Chinese and Western medicine complemented each other with advantages and jointly saved lives, and many critically ill patients turned into mild cases.

Fourth, patients at the recovery stage also were treated with the method of integration of Chinese and Western medicine. The criteria for recovery with the integration of Chinese and Western medicine will be released.

For about 3,000 medical workers infected with COVID-19, the integration use of TCM and Western drugs will be applied to them too.