"Traditional Chinese medicine is still very effective for main treatments. For example, during the epidemic in Guangzhou from May to June 2021, we treated 166 local cases. Among them, the number of patients treated with traditional Chinese medicine alone reached 118, accounting for more than 71%, and 57 patients with severe disease tendencies were successfully blocked from transitioning to severe disease, and the effect was very good. On December 16, Zhang Zhongde, deputy head of the expert group of the leading group of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine for the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, vice president of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and vice president of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said at a press conference held by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
"The TCM symptoms of patients with Delta mutant strains are mainly fever, high fever, chills, headache, dry throat, fatigue, bloating, loss of appetite and other symptoms, and acute weakness symptoms such as asthma, hypoxia, and sweating in severe patients are more obvious and the proportion is relatively high." Zhang Zhongde introduced the main symptoms of patients infected with the Delta variant strain at the press conference.
Zhang Zhongde cited the case of the local Delta strain of the epidemic in Guangzhou as an example, "We found that more than 80% of the patients had fever. In the just-concluded epidemic in Gansu, there are more elderly patients, and more patients with severe diseases with occult hypoxemia. When the patient is quiet, the blood oxygen is normal, but with a little activity, the blood oxygen falls down, falling below 90%, and soon becomes severe. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, we feel that it is plague poison and wet evil glue, diffuse three scorches, rapid transmission, gas consumption and yin. ”
Zhang Zhongde said that after in-depth discussion and comprehensive analysis and judgment of the expert group, the current round of epidemic situation still belongs to the category of "epidemic disease" of Traditional Chinese medicine, and the core etiology of Traditional Chinese medicine has not changed significantly, or it belongs to wet poison and depression, only due to different factors such as region, climate, eating habits, etc., there are differences in the characteristics of the weather, there are different focus of damp heat, and there are manifestations of cold, heat, dryness, and stasis, so clinically this is also in line with the "three causes" view of Chinese medicine. For example, patients in Xiamen and Putian, Fujian Province, have symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting and nausea, and the wet evil is more severe, which is related to the region and eating habits. Patients in Gansu and other northwest regions have symptoms such as dry cough, dry throat, dry mouth, and itchy throat, which is in line with the performance of "dry and evil lungs". Therefore, according to the "three causes and conditions" view of traditional Chinese medicine, all localities can dialectically discuss treatment on the basis of the original eighth edition of "three medicines and three parties" and appropriately adjust treatment. Patients with severe illness are corrected early and fully corrected by ginseng. In addition, in the treatment, at the same time, great attention is also attached to the treatment of lung and intestine, the treatment of the lungs, and patients who do not have stool access, reuse rhubarb to maintain the smoothness of stool.
For the domestic import of Aomi Kerong cases, Zhang Zhongde also said that he is also very concerned, the future is still to seize the core disease mechanism of the disease, the law of evolution of the syndrome, according to the epidemic theory of Traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years, combined with the onset season, region, human physique characteristics for dialectical treatment.
Editor: Sun Baoguang
