Suzhou Health Commission: Traditional Chinese medicine has played a unique role in epidemic prevention and treatment

People’s Daily Online, Suzhou, February 24th (Reporter Wang Jiliang) At the 11th Suzhou Epidemic Prevention and Control Press Conference held on the afternoon of the 24th, regarding the role of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of this round of epidemics, Suzhou City Health Sheng Le, director of the Health Commission, introduced that the local area gave full play to the unique advantages of the Wumen School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, starting from the links of “prevention, treatment, health and maintenance”, and gave full play to the unique role of traditional Chinese medicine in epidemic prevention, control and treatment.

Shengle introduced that in terms of preventive effect, Suzhou has formulated and released the “Spring 2022 Suzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Prevention Plan for New Coronary Virus Pneumonia and Influenza Susceptible People” to popularize the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine health care and focus on The relevant personnel of the isolation point used traditional Chinese medicine to intervene at the first time, and provided the “No. 2 epidemic prevention prescription” for the personnel of the centralized isolation point. The overall utilization rate of traditional Chinese medicine was 99.7%. The city’s traditional Chinese medicine medical institutions actively deploy anti-epidemic prescriptions, and distribute traditional Chinese medicine anti-epidemic items to medical staff, public security police, volunteers, and some key groups of people on the front line of anti-epidemic. As of February 23, the city has distributed more than 490,000 bags of traditional Chinese medicine anti-epidemic decoction, more than 5,260 packets of anti-epidemic tea, 16,490 anti-epidemic sachets, and 450 foot bath recipes.

In terms of therapeutic effect, Suzhou has arranged for 112 TCM expert groups and TCM medical staff at the provincial and municipal levels to be stationed in designated hospitals for the treatment of COVID-19, with 3 to 5 TCM physicians assigned to each ward for protection. On the basis of the eighth edition of the national diagnosis and treatment plan, the Chinese medicine expert group adopted the traditional Chinese medicine medication plan based on the method of “dispersing wind and dispersing”, and combined with the basic treatment of western medicine, so as to achieve one person, one policy, integrative traditional Chinese and western medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine. Combined use of western medicine. Set up a Chinese medicine rehabilitation team based on Suzhou Chinese Medicine Hospital to enter the designated hospital for rehabilitation of new coronary pneumonia, and provide follow-up rehabilitation services including traditional Chinese medicine, physical therapy and psychological counseling for the cured.