Abstract

A new kind of Pneumonia caused by new corona virus has been widespread in China since winter of 2019. No effective treatment for this disease was verified, so the morbidity and mortality rate were supposed higher than flu. The Traditional Chinese Medicine is widely used in clinical practice in China, but many other countries of the world to deal with diseases that remain clinically challenging.

Keywords: Pneumonia, COVID-19, Traditional Chinese medicine

This new viral pneumonia was named COVID-19, and declared as Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30, 2020. When the COVID-19 broke out, tens of thousands of Chinese people were infected, especially in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province [1], where the infection rate was extremely high. At present, the cumulative number of diagnoses worldwide is 645,957. Chinese government made relevant decisions quickly to control the spread of the epidemic disease. For example, on January 20, 2020, Chinese government classified COVID-19 as a Class B infectious disease and treated it as Class A [2].

Supportive therapies are mainly used in clinical practice, such as oxygen therapy, antiviral therapy and corticosteroid therapy, because there is no specific effective treatment [3]. According to past experiences in the treatment of infectious diseases in China, Traditional Chinese Medicine, including herbal formulas, can be used to prevent and treat such infectious disease [4,5]. Therefore, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is widely used in the treatment of COVID-19 in China promptly. Here we introduce the herbal formulas that are commonly used in Chinese hospitals.

FULL-TEXT