The age-old Traditional Chinese Medicine has become a go-to treatment for COVID-19. During the initial outbreak in Wuhan, TCM, coupled with western treat539現場開獎，ments, were highly effective. Wei Lynn Tang catches up with two physicians in this area, in Chengdu. They were among the doctors who were sent to work in Wuhan earlier this year.
Bitter almond, white prepared lateral root, gypsum, these are just some of the ingredients used to make a traditional Chinese medicinal decoction.
苦杏仁、附子、石膏，這些都只是用来建造中藥汤剂的一些藥物。
And one that is used, among others, by doctors here in Chengdu, to treat COVID-19 patients in Wuhan. Doctor Hu Xiaoyu, who has over 20 years of infectious disease experience under his belt, spent a month in the central Chinese city.
HU XIAOYU Director, Infectious Disease Department Teaching Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine "TCM has played a very important role in this fight against COVID-19. My team treated 176 patients in Wuhan, of whom 174 including 64 severe and critically ill ones took TCM alongside Western treatment. Due to the intervention of TCM, we didn't need to use any tracheal intubation, ECMO or invasive mechanical ventilation in the treatment proc淡化黑眼圈,ess. The two patients who did not take TCM unfortunately died."
I asked Doctor Hu if this is conclusive enough to prove the efficacy of TCM in fighting COVID-19.
我問扈大夫這是不是足以证实中醫藥醫治新冠肺炎的療效。
HU XIAOYU Director, Infectious Disease Department Teaching Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine "To get a more general conclusion, we still need to find more control groups to further analyze our data. But I think we can draw part of a conclusion here. Patients who receive our TCM preions saw an improvement in the痔瘡自療法,ir CT scans, negative conversion of their nucleic acid tests, and faster discharge time from the hospital. In our two-week clinical observation, the group who took TCM alongside Western treatment did BETTER than those who took ONLY Western medication."
Doctor Zhang Chuantao also led a team to Wuhan. He says TCM has been 85 percent effective among the 156 patients he treated. Clinical symptoms such as fever, cough, and tightness of the chest, have been reduced.
ZHANG CHUANTAO Deputy Director, Respiratory Department Teaching Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine "We gave him oxygen therapy and also a TCM preion of Huo Pu Xia Ling Tang and Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang. His breathing improved on the second day and he could even get out of bed. We then re-adjusted his preion after."
Acknowledging that a systemic evaluation of TCM should be strengthened, both Doctors Zhang and Hu believe more people, especially skeptics, should also look at TCM with a fairer mindset and approach. WLT, CGTN, Chengdu.