How to use Chinese medicine decoction well for urban and rural grassroots epidemic prevention and control? How to effectively choose Chinese medicine formulas after infection? ——Authoritative experts interpret hot issues in epidemic prevention

Traditional Chinese medicine has played an important role
in China's epidemic prevention and control.
The Comprehensive Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council recently issued the Notice on the Full Application of Chinese Medicine Decoction in Urban and Rural Grassroots to Carry out the Treatment of New Coronavirus Infection, requiring all localities to determine appropriate Chinese medicine formulas, strengthen guidance on the use of Chinese medicine decoctions, and further play the role of Chinese medicine in the treatment of
new coronavirus infection.

 

Why should decoctions be used in urban and rural grassroots to treat new coronavirus infection? How to effectively choose Chinese medicine formulas after infection? Qi Wensheng, director of the emergency department of Guanganmen Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and Zou Xu, director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, answered hot questions
of public concern.

 

Q: Why should the treatment of new coronavirus infection be carried out in the full application of medicinal decoctions at the grassroots level in urban and rural areas?

 

Qi Wensheng: In the prevention and control of the epidemic, we have adhered to the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, and screened out clinically effective prescription drugs such as "three medicines and three prescriptions", and traditional Chinese medicine has played an important role
.
The use of medicinal decoctions in urban and rural areas to carry out the treatment of new coronavirus infection is an important measure
for us to adopt the "Chinese method" to solve China's anti-epidemic problem.

 

First, traditional Chinese medicine has the advantage
of simple and incorruptible testing.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, traditional Chinese medicine has played an important role
in medical treatment.
Traditional Chinese medicine decoction has the characteristics of rich raw materials, many varieties, simple process and strong applicability, and has the advantage of dialectical treatment for patients infected with new coronavirus infection, and can be combined with the clinical characteristics of children, the elderly and other patients to treat
according to person, place and time.

 

Second, traditional Chinese medicine can expand the supply of
medicine for the masses.
Chinese medicine decoction plays an important role
in coping with the contradiction between supply and demand of temporary structural drugs and reducing the pressure of medical institutions.
At the same time, Chinese medicine decoctions also have good acceptance in rural areas, and different areas can take local materials, which is convenient and fast
.

 

Third, traditional Chinese medicine is still effective
against the Omicron strain.
At present, the Omicron strain has become the main epidemic strain, and the clinical manifestations of new coronavirus infection patients have shown new characteristics, but from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, its core pathogenesis is "epidemic virus invasion", and the cause of the disease is to feel the "epidemic" atmosphere, which still belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine "epidemic" disease, and the clinical characteristics are concurrent onset, such as cold clamping, heat clamping, dryness, stasis, deficiency, etc
。 According to the climatic characteristics of the north and south, combined with the actual situation of the vast urban and rural grassroots level, in response to the new crown virus infection, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine organized experts to formulate an example of the traditional Chinese medicine agreement party for the treatment of new crown virus infection, which has important guiding significance
for the grassroots level to carry out the treatment of new crown virus infection in combination with the local characteristics of the differentiation of drugs.

 

Q: What traditional Chinese medicine protocol prescription is commonly used for treatment of people infected with the new coronavirus in the early stage?

 

Zou Xu: People infected with the new coronavirus are generally accompanied by fever, sore throat, fatigue, dry cough, nasal congestion, runny nose and other symptoms in the early stage, for which there are many TCM formulas that are reliable
.
The Notice on the Full Application of Medicinal Decoctions in Urban and Rural Grassroots to Carry out the Treatment of New Coronavirus Infection puts forward the agreed prescription (Daqinglong soup and Wulingshan) as a preliminary reference
in the example.
In practical applications, various places can also choose Jing anti-septic dispersion, Chai Ge muscle soup and other formulas to add and reduce tailoring
.
Because the climate, population characteristics, resource endowments, and medication habits of different regions are different, each region can adapt measures to local conditions, distinguish treatment, and organize experts to formulate prescriptions for traditional Chinese medicine agreements that meet the actual local conditions with reference to the examples provided by the state
.

 

Q: What is the difference between the prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine taken by people infected with the new coronavirus in the north and south?

 

Qi Wensheng: The new coronavirus Omicron variant infection belongs to the category of
traditional Chinese medicine "epidemic" disease.
According to the current climate characteristics of the north and south, the suitable traditional Chinese medicine for people infected with the new crown virus is different
.
In the northern region, the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine for patients infected with the new crown virus is based on flavored kudzu soup, and if the headache and body pain are obvious, Qianghuo, Baizhi, and Chuanxiong can be added as appropriate; If the sore throat is obvious, you can add dry shot and burdock; If the cough is obvious, you can add almonds and loquat leaves
.

 

Zou Xu: In the southern region, the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine for people infected with the new crown virus is based on the addition and subtraction of silver dispersion, if the body temperature is greater than 38.
5 °C, you can add raw gypsum; if the headache and body pain are obvious, you can add chai hu and skullcap; If the sore throat is obvious, you can add dry injection and ginseng; If the cough is obvious, you can add ephedra and Zhebei
.
Regardless of the type of Chinese medicine agreement prescription, if you have gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea when taking Chinese medicine, you can add sand kernel and wood fragrance
.
The elderly, children and infirm people need to reduce the dose
.