25/02/2020
Traditional Chinese Medicine recommendations for COVID-19 Recovery by China's State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine
TCM Quarterly Announcement
Here at TCM Quarterly, we want to provide you up to date information about the coronavirus. We also feel that information spread about the virus, treatments, and general situation should be ethically shared. To do that, we have decided to include two separate types of posts. So that you may be informed on the medical side and the personal side, we will continue to update you on the types of treatments, especially those including TCM rehabilitation, and updates from our Chief Editor who is currently still residing in China. A combination of those can give you both an informative, useful outlook on the current situation.
First, below you will find the China’s State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s guidance for rehabilitation for COVID-19. The post included a notice on printing and distributing guidance on TCM Rehabilitation which was released on February 23rd. In order to accelerate the development of TCM treatments for COVID-19, they organized a group of experts to create a guide for rehabilitation for persons in the recovery period who meet the criteria for discharge. Below is that recommendation:
(For full details including ingredients to herbal decoctions, dosage, acupoint selection depending upon syndrome, and more go to www.tcmquarterly.com/announcements)
A) Lung and Spleen Qi Deficiency syndrome: shortness of breath, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, bloating, loose stool, and uneasiness. The tongue is pale and greasy.
Recommended: 补气健脾 Tonifying Qi and Fortifying Spleen medications
B) Qi and Yin Deficiency syndrome: fatigue, shortness of breath, dry mouth, thirst, palpitations, excessive sweating, poor appetite, or or no fever, dry cough, little phlegm, thin pulse, dry tongue.
Recommended patented medicine: 益气养阴 Qi supplementing & spleen fortifying medication
Other TCM modalities:
Acupuncture:
Common acupoints: Lung-9, Large Intestine-11, Bladder-13, Stomach-36, Spleen-9, and Conception vessel-4.
Moxibustion acupoints: Governing vessel-14, Bladder-13 & 17, Conception Vessel-12 & 13, Stomach-36, and Lung-6.
Tuina:
acupoint massage: lung- (1, 7, & 9), conception vessel- (12 & 17), bladder (13, 23, & 25), and Stomach-36.
Meridian massage: Hand Taiyin lung meridian, Hand Yangming large intestine meridian, Foot Yangming stomach meridian, Foot Taiyin spleen meridian, Renmai, Dumai, etc.
Auricular acupressure: bronchus, lung, endocrine, Shenmen （神门）, Zhen (枕), spleen, stomach, large intestine, and sympathetic nerve, etc.
Scraping: Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, Foot Sun Bladder Meridian, etc.
Cupping: bladder- (13, 20, 23, & 43) and governor's vessel-14.
TCM Dietary therapy:
According to symptoms:
-cold aversion and cold stomach: ginger, shallot, and mustard.
-dry throat and dry mouth：green tea and star fruit.
-cough and expectoration: pear, lily, almond, cabbage, and citrus peel.
-loss of appetite and bloating: yam, white lentils, poria, laizizi, and amomum villosum.
-constipation: honey, banana, and h**p
-insomnia: ziziphus japonica
Complete details at www.tcmquarterly.com/announcements
Language Focus:
1. 补气健脾 Bǔ qì jiàn pí
2. 益气养阴 Yì qì yǎng yīn
3. 神门 Shén mén
4. 枕 Zhěn
Source: 2020.国家中医药管理局官。《关于印发新型冠状病毒肺炎恢复期中医康复指导建议（试行）的通知》。
