Contribution of traditional Chinese medicine to the treatment of COVID-19

COVID-19 as an epidemic disease has spread across the planet since December 2019. The somber situation reminds each country to take actions in preventing the spreading of the virus. China as one of the early affected countries has been fighting against the novel coronavirus with the achievements of...

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Autores principales: Wang, Wan-Ying, Xie, Ying, Zhou, Hua, Liu, Liang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier GmbH. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7338274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32675044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2020.153279
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description COVID-19 as an epidemic disease has spread across the planet since December 2019. The somber situation reminds each country to take actions in preventing the spreading of the virus. China as one of the early affected countries has been fighting against the novel coronavirus with the achievements of nearly 80,000 cured confirmed patients. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has made contributions to the treatment of COVID-19 because of its efficacy and comprehensive therapeutic theory. In this commentary, the advantage, etiology and mechanism of TCM therapy were discussed in the aspect of its functions in reducing the harms brought by COVID-19 to human beings.
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spelling pubmed-73382742020-07-07 Contribution of traditional Chinese medicine to the treatment of COVID-19 Wang, Wan-Ying Xie, Ying Zhou, Hua Liu, Liang Phytomedicine Article COVID-19 as an epidemic disease has spread across the planet since December 2019. The somber situation reminds each country to take actions in preventing the spreading of the virus. China as one of the early affected countries has been fighting against the novel coronavirus with the achievements of nearly 80,000 cured confirmed patients. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has made contributions to the treatment of COVID-19 because of its efficacy and comprehensive therapeutic theory. In this commentary, the advantage, etiology and mechanism of TCM therapy were discussed in the aspect of its functions in reducing the harms brought by COVID-19 to human beings. Elsevier GmbH. 2021-05 2020-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7338274/ /pubmed/32675044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2020.153279 Text en © 2020 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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