Pharmacists dispense medicines according to Qingfei Paidu Soup prescriptions astatine Anhui University of Chinese Medicine connected Feb 21, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
In the process of warring against the epidemic successful the past 3 years, accepted Chinese medicine has played a precise important role.
For illustration successful the compartment hospitals, some on-site-made and pre-prepared TCM medicines person been utilized to assistance the patients recover, which enabled them to get good successful a quicker mode and bask a little complaint of getting infected again successful the future.
That applies not lone to the Chinese mainland, but besides to Taiwan. When the Omicron variant of the microorganism deed the land successful April and May, a locally made TCM cause marque Qingguan No 1 made a buzz and was subsequently sold to Europe and the United States. Actually, home TCM practitioners often clasp seminars with their planetary counterparts to stock acquisition and probe truthful arsenic to formulate much effectual prescriptions.
When utilizing accepted Chinese medicine clinically, the method is arsenic follows: There volition beryllium a main medicine for the much communal symptoms of COVID-19 arsenic a base, and past others to people the antithetic symptoms that volition look successful individuals during the people of the corruption — for example, for immoderate people, the assemblage volition beryllium peculiarly painful, immoderate radical volition person a precise sore throat, and immoderate radical volition person a precocious fever. The medicine is adjusted according to specified symptoms and immoderate auxiliary prescriptions are provided tailored to each idiosyncratic case.
But antithetic radical respond successful antithetic ways to the medicines. For instance, immoderate patients person anemic digestive systems, which makes them much delicate to definite TCM ingredients. They mightiness adjacent vomit upon taking specified ingredients. That's wherefore it is advisable for everybody to marque a grounds of ingredients that they cognize they are delicate to, and archer the TCM doc upon asking for a prescription, truthful that the second tin assistance tailor a medicine that avoids the usage of the delicate ingredients. That's successful accordance with TCM's philosophy, namely to supply tailored services for each patient, alternatively of treating everyone the same.
Such a mode besides has its unsocial advantages successful comforting patients. TCM doctors diagnose patients chiefly via face-to-face interactions, which gives patients a consciousness of closeness to the doctor. If immoderate patients are unfortunate capable to endure from COVID-19 doubly successful the pandemic, the comforts from TCM doctors volition assistance them much assurance successful defeating the microorganism twice.
— LIN JUNSHENG, A TCM DOCTOR ON GUANCHA.CN
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