Clinical characteristics analysis of 9 Cases COVID-19 patients receiving integrated Traditional Chinese and Western medicine: a retrospective study
Abstract Background Recently, WHO has classified COVID-19 as a global pandemic disease, and it is still spreading rapidly around the world, but no specific medicine or vaccine for 2019-nCov has been developed so far. At present, the epidemic situation in China has been basically controlled. Methods Here we report 9 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the First People's Hospital of Zigong City, Zigong, China. In addition to antiviral drug treatment and other supportive treatment, all of them received traditional Chinese medicine prescription according to the different conditions of each patient, and we collected the clinical data of the 9 patients and analyzed the outcome as a retrospective study. Results The curative effect is very significant, all the patients have been discharged from the hospital, and the shortest course of treatment is only 12 days. Conclusions Combined with the fact that other parts of China use Traditional Chinese Medicine, including Wuhan Cabin Hospital, we speculate that Chinese medicine plays an encouraging role in this process and may be an adjuvant therapy of COVID-19, which may bring some reference to the treatment of COVID-19 worldwide, in spite of the efficacy and definite conclusions still need further study.
