(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Expert: Traditional Chinese medicine plays an important role in the whole process of innovation to explore treatment methods
China News Agency, Beijing, April 25 (Reporter Du Yan) In the treatment of new coronary pneumonia, Chinese medicine plays an important role. There are more than 80,000 diagnosed patients in China with interventional treatment of Chinese medicine, accounting for 91% of the total confirmed cases. Li Xiuhui, deputy head of the Beijing New Coronary Pneumonia Chinese Medicine Treatment Experts Group and chief physician of the Center for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine at Beijing Youan Hospital, said in a release on the 25th that traditional Chinese medicine treatment does not stick to one side and one medicine, and explores innovative treatment methods.
The effective rate of treatment in Beijing is 94.7%
For the treatment of cases of new coronary pneumonia, Beijing established a Chinese medicine treatment expert group and formulated and perfected the first edition to the fourth edition of the Beijing New Coronavirus Pneumonia Traditional Chinese Medicine Prevention and Treatment Program (trial implementation). For suspected cases, confirmed cases, Treatment of mild, common and convalescent cases.
As of 24:00 on April 24, the treatment rate of all cases with Chinese medicine in Beijing designated hospitals was 87.9%, and the treatment effective rate was 94.7%. The rate of participation in the treatment of severe and critical cases was 81.3%, and the effective rate of treatment was 92.3%.
Chinese medicine treatment does not stick to one side and one medicine
Chinese medicine believes that New Coronary Pneumonia belongs to the category of "epidemic disease", the disease is located in the lungs, and the main evil is dampness and poison.
"Traditional Chinese medicine has contributed wisdom to protect people's health in the" epidemic disease "since ancient times." Li Xiuhui said that the new coronary pneumonia traditional Chinese medicine treatment plan comes from the complete syndrome differentiation system formed on the "epidemic disease" and from the effective treatment of the "epidemic disease". method.
She said that from light to heavy patients, Beijing has achieved a full course of Chinese medicine treatment, and constantly improve the program in clinical application.
"Beijing's climate and patients are characterized by dampness, heat, and people with insufficient qi and yin are more likely to develop into severe cases." She said that under the general principle of Fuzheng Quxie, the implementation of Xuanfei Penetrating Evil, detoxifying, cooling blood and cultivating soil The three-step cure for gold. Especially in the treatment of critically ill cases, the expert group first proposed the method of cultivating earth and gold to help patients restore gastrointestinal function and speed up recovery of physical strength.
Targeted treatment
The doctors gradually deepened their understanding of the disease during the treatment. She said that according to the main symptoms of the patients at different times and the main symptoms and signs of the current, some targeted treatment.
For example, she has different types of fatigue and different treatments. Extreme fatigue of the disease is accompanied by shortness of breath and decreased oxygen saturation. This is humid poison closed lung disease, which needs anti-pulmonary fluid exudation, supplemented by supplemental gas therapy; fatigue during the recovery period of the disease, the limbs cannot be moved after the extracorporeal membrane lung device is removed, this is Deficiency of both qi and yin requires treatment of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi and nourishing yin.
Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Treatment
The treatment of the new coronary pneumonia has been marked by the combination of Chinese and Western medicine. Li Xiuhui said that in Beijing's anti-epidemic treatment, Chinese medicine and western medicine learn from each other, recognize each other, complement each other's strengths, and explore some entry points for cooperative treatment of Chinese and Western medicine.
She said that in the treatment of critically ill patients, Western medical hormones can suppress inflammatory factors and lower body temperature, but the hormones also suppress the body's immune function. At this time, Chinese medicine strengthens the righting drugs, improves the body's resistance, and reduces the chance of bacterial fungal infection.
Innovative exploration of treatment methods
Li Xiuhui emphasized that the treatment of severe and critical patients is the focus and difficulty of reducing the mortality rate. "We have never seen so many patients using extracorporeal membrane lung instruments at the same time. Traditional Chinese medicine uses a variety of treatment methods such as watching tongue images every day to improve the efficacy. For example, for patients with high fever, constipation, and abdominal distension, the enema method of traditional Chinese medicine is used. When the abdominal air is ventilated, the body temperature will come down. "
In the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding, Chinese medicine applied enema for the first time. She introduced that there was one case of critically ill patients using ECMO who had repeated blood in the stool for 1 month. The Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation was given to the traditional Chinese medicine Huangtu Decoction, combined with nasal feeding and enema to stabilize the patient's condition.
She said that during this treatment, she also broke through the previous concept of using traditional Chinese medicine to avoid the need for unclear traditional Chinese medicine, and formulated a plan for preventing and epidemic prevention of traditional Chinese medicine for different groups of adults, children, and basic diseases. Good results have been achieved for the treatment of non-disease.
Play an important role throughout
Li Xiuhui emphasized that in this fight against the epidemic, Chinese medicine started from supporting the body's righteousness, maintaining its own resistance to disease, adjusting the internal balance of the body, repairing pathological damage, and played an important role in the entire process of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. Even in the treatment of discharged patients, Chinese medicine also plays a role, focusing on adjusting the mind, emotions, diet and organ rehabilitation, and giving Yiqi Yangyin and other Chinese medicine treatments to make patients cough, sputum, hypoproteinemia, electrolyte disorders and Inflammation of the lungs further improved.
"The patients who were discharged were treated with traditional Chinese medicine when they returned to the clinic and recovered very well," she said. (Finish)