Chinese medicine fully intervenes in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic

  Recently, at the press conference of "Hebei Province's New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Work", Duan Yunbo, deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Health Commission, member of the Office of Hebei Provincial Leading Group for Response to the New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic, and deputy leader of the medical treatment team, answered reporters In the question, he said that Chinese medicine has a unique advantage in preventing and treating infectious diseases, focusing on enhancing the body’s own resistance and repair capabilities, and maintaining overall balance.

In this round of epidemic prevention and control, we have followed the requirement of “adopting integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine to diagnose and treat patients with all their strength”, and on the basis of summing up our work experience last year, we have further strengthened the combined diagnosis and treatment mechanism of Chinese and Western medicine.

  Duan Yunbo introduced that we have dispatched Chinese physicians to each ward of designated hospitals, and we conduct joint rounds of Chinese and Western medicine with western medicine physicians, jointly formulate diagnosis and treatment plans, and implement integrated Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment of patients.

Under the guidance of national and provincial TCM experts, all patients are now treated with syndrome differentiation, "one person, one plan", and all patients receive TCM decoction treatment at the first time.

In particular, the implementation of "one consultation a day" for severe cases, taking corresponding measures at any time, and striving to achieve full participation and deep participation in Chinese medicine.

At the same time, in order to give full play to the advantages of Chinese medicine in preventing diseases, Chinese medicine is actively carried out to "prevent disease".

Actively released the use of traditional Chinese medicine instead of tea, traditional Chinese medicine air fumigation, meridian acupoint tapping massage and other methods to improve human immunity.

In consideration of the current climate and the physical conditions of urban and rural residents, various localities have formulated preventive Chinese medicine decoction pieces and Chinese patent medicine prescriptions, concentrated decoctions to prepare preventive Chinese medicine decoctions, distributed them to close contacts, and conducted Chinese medicine intervention.

  As of January 8, 82% of people under medical isolation and observation in Hebei Province had taken Chinese herbal decoctions or Chinese patent medicines.

At the same time, intervention measures of traditional Chinese medicine decoctions and proprietary Chinese medicines have been adopted for epidemic prevention and control key areas, key posts, and key populations such as fever clinics and medical isolation points. At present, more than 28,000 people have been distributed.

(Ji Wei)

Ji Wei

Ji Wei