Key to Treating COVID-19: Removing Phlegm from Small Airways

According to autopsy reports, patients who died from COVID-19 had a lot of mucus in the lung that obstructed the airways, reduced the effect of mechanical ventilation, and even led to pulmonary failure. Traditional Chinese medicine literature mentions that “Inability to remove phlegm impairs the lun...

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Autor principal: Wang, Qingqi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37641679
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/CMAC.CMAC_27_20
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description According to autopsy reports, patients who died from COVID-19 had a lot of mucus in the lung that obstructed the airways, reduced the effect of mechanical ventilation, and even led to pulmonary failure. Traditional Chinese medicine literature mentions that “Inability to remove phlegm impairs the lung, which leads to death.” Hence one of the most urgent problems to be solved is to remove phlegm from the small airways. This article elaborates ten methods to remove phlegm for clinical reference.
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spelling pubmed-90098582022-04-15 Key to Treating COVID-19: Removing Phlegm from Small Airways Wang, Qingqi Chinese Medicine and Culture Research According to autopsy reports, patients who died from COVID-19 had a lot of mucus in the lung that obstructed the airways, reduced the effect of mechanical ventilation, and even led to pulmonary failure. Traditional Chinese medicine literature mentions that “Inability to remove phlegm impairs the lung, which leads to death.” Hence one of the most urgent problems to be solved is to remove phlegm from the small airways. This article elaborates ten methods to remove phlegm for clinical reference. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2020-07 2020-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9009858/ /pubmed/37641679 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/CMAC.CMAC_27_20 Text en © 2020 Chinese Medicine and Culture | Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009858/
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