State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Traditional Chinese medicine is widely used in local covid-19 infections except in a few cases

Source: People's Daily News

On February 24, Chinese medicine practitioners labeled the decoctions of chinese medicines in the decoction room of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Xinhua News Agency, photo by Zhou Mu

People's Daily Beijing, December 16 (Reporter Zhang Wenting) Since mid-October, many places in China have successively experienced local clusters of new crown pneumonia. After the outbreak of the epidemic, all localities adhered to the principle of "attaching equal importance to traditional Chinese and Western medicine, integrating traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and using both Traditional Chinese and Western medicine", and organized the prevention and control of traditional Chinese medicine for the first time. Bing Yuanyuan, deputy director of the Medical Administration Department of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said at a press conference of the State Council New Office today that at present, among the locally confirmed cases and asymptomatic infected people in various places, except for a few special cases, traditional Chinese medicine has been widely used.

According to Feng Yuanyuan, traditional Chinese medicine is deeply involved in the whole process of treatment of new crown pneumonia patients, and various localities carry out standardized and homogeneous traditional Chinese medicine treatment according to the national diagnosis and treatment plan. For mild and ordinary patients, traditional Chinese medicine treatment is the mainstay, improving the clinical symptoms such as fever, cough, dysregulation, fatigue and so on, and reducing the development of severe diseases. For severe and critically ill patients, the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine is adopted, "one person, one policy", giving full play to the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine in reducing high fever, promoting lung exudation and absorption, improving gastrointestinal symptoms, etc., slowing down or blocking the development of severe disease to critical illness, and promoting the transformation of severe disease to mild disease. For some recovered patients who still have symptoms such as fatigue, poor absorption and qi deficiency after discharge from the hospital, comprehensive interventions such as traditional Chinese medicine and non-drug therapy are used to promote functional recovery and improve quality of life.

In the prevention and control of the domestic sporadic epidemic, the participation of traditional Chinese medicine and the coordination mechanism of traditional Chinese and Western medicine have also been gradually improved.

Bing Yuanyuan recalled that last year, during the emergency containment stage of the sudden epidemic, in practice, an integrated Chinese and Western medicine medical model of "mechanism, team, measures and results" was innovatively formed. In the "dynamic zeroing" stage of normalized prevention and control exploration and precise prevention and control of the whole chain, the integrated chinese and Western medicine medical model and the cooperation mechanism of traditional Chinese and western medicine have been continuously promoted and improved. Under the unified leadership of the local emergency command center, the competent departments of traditional Chinese medicine in various localities have coordinated the local traditional Chinese medicine forces to form an experience model of "starting the emergency prevention and control command and treatment work mechanism in which traditional Chinese medicine participates at the first time, applying the prevention and control and treatment plan of traditional Chinese medicine at the first time, having a team of traditional Chinese medicine experts at the first time, and using traditional Chinese medicine at the first time".

At the same time, in the designated hospitals to deepen the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine medical model, traditional Chinese and Western medicine experts jointly formed an expert group, jointly formulated and improved the diagnosis and treatment plan, jointly carried out treatment in the front line, and jointly conducted rounds consultation and case discussion.

Feng Yuanyuan said that traditional Chinese medicine not only participates in the whole process of treatment of new crown pneumonia patients, but also includes it in the "four early", gives full play to the role of traditional Chinese medicine in treating diseases, and guides all localities to formulate traditional Chinese medicine prevention programs in combination with the local climate and the physical characteristics of the population. For close contacts and sub-close contacts in centralized isolation, with the goal of "prescribing medicine to the point", the prevention and intervention of traditional Chinese medicine is carried out at the first time to ensure that traditional Chinese medicine "should be taken as much as possible" and "can be taken to the fullest". Extend the prevention of traditional Chinese medicine to the sealing and control of communities and front-line key post populations, and ensure that those who are in need of home isolation and front-line workers are "willing to serve". All localities have organized the establishment of a roving guidance expert group for traditional Chinese medicine, regularly going to centralized isolation medical observation points and sealing and control communities to guide the prevention of traditional Chinese medicine, and carry out follow-up visits to take medicines.