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Background: The new coronavirus is raging around the world. This virus is not
only highly infectious, but also has a high mortality rate once humans are infected.
Therefore, both Western and Chinese medicine are trying to find effective drugs,
which can block the reproduction of the virus and prevent the COVID 19 patients
progressing to severe illness. Patients infected with severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have a high inflammatory response and
immunosuppression in the clinical course. According to the previous experience of
the treatment against SARS, it has been found that Traditional Chinese Medicine
has anti-inflammatory, antiviral and immunomodulatory properties. Therefore,
appropriate treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine have great opportunity to
help COVID 19 patients accelerate recovery.
Method: We describe a series of seven patients who were tested positive and
admitted to Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital. After admission, they were all classified as
severe illness according to their clinical conditions. Two of them (control group)
were only treated with standard Western medicine at Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital,
and five of them treated with standard Western medicine combined with Chinese
Herbal Medicine (CHM).
Results: Among the 7 severely ill patients admitted to this hospital, the CHM group
compared with the control group, not only the speed of symptom relief (days of
hospitalization) but the speed of virus decline (virus screening time from positive
to negative or Cycle Threshold value < 30) are better than the control group. If
compared with other antiviral drug related papers, good curative effects can be
obtained in the above two indicators. Only in terms of the speed of symptom relief,
there is still room for improvement when discussing with China’s TCM formula-
Qingfei Paidu decoction against COVID 19.
Conclusion: Chinese Herbal Medicine against COVID 19 can significantly shorten
the duration of hospital stay and virus decline.
【Keywords】SARS-CoV-2 virus; Traditional Chinese Medicine; Chinese Herbal Medicine; symptom relief; the speed of virus decline
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254.2 中药介入治疗对新冠肺炎重症疗效评估
