The impact of ethnic medicine in combating the epidemic

At the beginning of the new year, a sudden epidemic affects the hearts of countless Chinese people. Under the severe situation, the people of the whole country are united and united to fight the epidemic. During the prevention and control of this epidemic, in addition to modern medicine and drugs, various places have also carried out attempts to treat patients with traditional Chinese medicine, and achieved good results.

Traditional Chinese medicine is the collective name for the medicines of all ethnic groups in my country, including the medicines of the Han and various ethnic minorities. It contains the Chinese nation’s understanding and practical experience of life, health and disease. For thousands of years, the medicines of various ethnic groups have always played an important role in preventing and treating diseases and maintaining health. Especially in the prevention and control of "plague", they have played a unique and irreplaceable role. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, ethnic medical institutions and ethnic pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprises from all over the country have been sent to Hubei to assist Hubei, contributing people, methods, and suggestions, and actively participating in the fight against the epidemic. In this war without smoke, more people have seen the great power of traditional national medicine.

Staff in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Pharmacy of Ningxia Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine are preparing Chinese medicine preventive decoction. Photo by Yu Jing, China News Service

Ethnic medicine experts offer advice

January 23 On the same day, the National Health Commission's Medical Administration and Medical Administration Bureau issued the "Notice on Issuing the Diagnosis and Treatment Plan for Pneumonia Infected by New Coronavirus (Trial Version 3)". This time, the third version of the new coronavirus pneumonia diagnosis and treatment plan was put forward for the first time. Treatment plan.

As soon as the news was sent out, on January 27, the China Ethnic Medicine Association issued a proposal for ethnic medicine experts and member units to propose ideas, suggestions, medicines and prescriptions for ethnic medicine. After the initiative was issued, medical experts and scholars from various ethnic groups and doctors and nurses from ethnic medical institutions acted quickly to find prevention and treatment methods among prescriptions, authentic medicinal materials that played a role in the fight against SARS, as well as prescriptions currently used in clinical practice and health-care prescriptions with disease-preventing antibodies. Prescriptions for COVID-19.

As of February 7, the Chinese Ethnic Medicine Association*** has received nearly 30 prescriptions for the prevention and treatment of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus from Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Miao, Yi, Korean, Yao and other ethnic groups. This is all due to the strong participation of professionals in the field of medicine from all ethnic groups -

O. Ulji, dean of the School of Mongolian Medicine at Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, immediately provided his own epidemic prevention methods and organized Mongolian medicine experts prepared Mongolian medicine prescriptions and then quickly reported them to the Food and Drug Administration of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. At present, the hospital has 8 kinds of Mongolian medicine preparations for epidemic prevention and control that have been approved by the Autonomous Region Food and Drug Administration and have been used in the treatment of patients, with remarkable curative effects;

The medical team of the Tibetan Hospital in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu ranks first Timely summing up the traditional prevention and treatment experience of Tibetan medicine, combined with the current clinical characteristics of COVID-19, three kinds of anti-epidemic Tibetan medicines including "Luojunma", "Plague Incense Powder" and "Nine Flavors Anti-epidemic Medicine Powder" have been carefully developed;

Mr. Zhang Zhidao, an 85-year-old Yunnan Yi medicine expert, resolutely led a team of doctors to the mountains to collect medicines, worked intensively to prepare medicines, and prescribed clinical prescriptions for Yi medicine for respiratory infectious diseases;

Huang Baodong, director of Ningxia Huangbaodong Medical Hospital, donated air disinfectant incense that has been used to treat influenza for three generations;

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There are also many ethnic medicine experts who are increasing their efforts The efforts in developing prescriptions and dispensing medicines have added a new force to the team fighting the epidemic.