On March 29, the number of new coronavirus infections in Shanghai approached 6,000, of which 326 were confirmed cases and 5,656 were asymptomatic, accounting for more than 95% of asymptomatic infections.
For the treatment of asymptomatic infected patients and some mild patients after isolation and admission, traditional Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicine therapy is currently used, and it has shown good curative effect.
At the Shanghai Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference on March 30, Wu Yingen, a tenured professor at the Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said: “The new experiment proves that Lianhua Qingwen has an adverse effect on Omicron. It also has an inhibitory effect, which can reduce cell damage.”
Wu Yingen said that the current treatment for new crown patients is carried out according to the ninth edition of the new crown diagnosis and treatment plan. Huaqingwen Capsules. “We found that after the patient used traditional Chinese medicine, the time for nucleic acid to turn negative can be shortened, the duration of fever symptoms can also be shortened, and there are fewer cases of severe disease after treatment with traditional Chinese medicine.” Wu Yingen said at the press conference.
But he also emphasized that Lianhua Qingwen is a drug after all, and any drug will have certain side effects, so he does not advocate taking more.
In response to how ordinary citizens can prevent the new crown by taking traditional Chinese medicine, Wu Yingen said: “We have formed a unified consensus that the salient features of the new crown are dampness and toxicity. There should be three principles when using traditional Chinese medicine: health and wellness. Spleen, dampness, and dispelling plague.”
He also said that if some elderly people with underlying diseases want to enhance their ability to resist the new crown, they should seek help from doctors and increase adjuvant therapy.
In the “14th Five-Year” Chinese Medicine Development Plan issued by the General Office of the State Council on March 29, it is emphasized that it is necessary to enhance the ability of Chinese medicine to participate in the prevention and treatment of emerging infectious diseases and public health emergencies, improve The system for Chinese medicine to participate in emergency management, and strengthen the construction of Chinese medicine emergency treatment capacity.
In this regard, Chen Kaixian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a pharmacy expert, told the First Financial Reporter: “The newly released plan is clear that the establishment of a national medical center of traditional Chinese medicine is of great significance for leading the innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine. “
He also said that the plan clearly requires that the proportion of tertiary public traditional Chinese medicine hospitals and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospitals to set up fever clinics should reach 100%, and the use of this as a binding indicator reflects the role of traditional Chinese medicine in fighting the disease. important position and role in the epidemic.