Ninety percent of confirmed patients with COVID-19 in China were treated with traditional Chinese medicine

Baku/29.03.20 / Turan: Researchers from the Chinese medical laboratory created a mouse model to evaluate the effect of traditional Chinese medicine / BMT / in the treatment of new coronavirus pneumonia / COVID-19 /.

Based on the weather conditions in the central Chinese city of Wuhan during the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the ABSL-2 laboratory at the BMT Institute at the Academy of Chinese Traditional Medicine created a mouse model in the conditions of the corresponding levels of cold and moisture.

Researchers forced laboratory mice to become infected with the human coronavirus HCoV-229E and created an animal model that has similar pathological changes to COVID-19, the Keji Journal / Science and Technology Daily / reported.

They evaluated the effect of TCM against coronavirus infection by monitoring a number of virus indicators, gastrointestinal functions of animals, immunity, and inflammatory factors.

The results of the studies showed that the selected drugs could significantly reduce inflammatory damage in the lungs of mice and the viral load on the lung tissue of these animals, as well as increase the proportion of immune cells in the peripheral blood of mice.

BMT often reveals, diagnoses, treats and prevents diseases from different points of view. “TCM disease treatment focuses only on the symptoms caused by the virus, not the type of virus itself,” explained Tsui Xiaolan, director of the laboratory.

Based on the model data, 16 types of TCM drugs were selected in the treatment of COVID-19. Clinical observation shows that traditional Chinese medicine / BMT / has proven effective in treating more than 90 percent confirmed patients with COVID-19 in mainland China, said Yu Yanhong, secretary of the party committee of the State Administration for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy of the People's Republic of China.

Zhang Boli, Academician of the Academy of Engineering of China, said that Western medicine offers the necessary life support measures, such as supporting breathing and blood circulation, while TCM focuses on improving physical indices.--0--