Monday, September 28, 2009
Across the world, althought all the doctors and scientists try to curb H1N1, this influenza doesn't seem to know where to stop, still growing bigger, And last week monday, September 21 2009, 442 new H1N1-related deaths have been reported during the past week all over the world, the highest one-week death count since the third week of August; 63.1 deaths per day, and an increase of 11% over the week before.
during the same week, the United States(including Puerto Rico)had 59 new deaths, and Californic has had since 3161 h1n1 cases and 167 deaths.
Now while feeling this infectious diseae all around us and affecting our daily life, I have found some good news shining on H1N1 treatment here:
Last May 2009 Chinese Health Department announced that Traditional Chinese Herbs can treat H1N1 patients more effectively than Tamiflu.
Since H1N1 virus starts to spread from the Lung and the Stomach and flows into the blood system, its treatments can be categorized according to the affected region and symptoms.
- The respiratory system(fever, coughing, runny nose, sore throat: Ma huang (ephedrae), xing ren(apricot seed), shi gao(gypsum), chai hu (bupleurum), gan cao(licorice). There are also effective Chinese patent drugs including Banlangen chongji (radix isatidis medicinal granules), Shuanghuanglian (oral liquid composed of honeysuckle, baikal skullcap root and forsythia), and Zheng chaihu yin keli (Chinese thorowax granules).
- The digestive system: Ge gen (radix puerariae), huang lian(coptis rhizome), chang zhu(atractylodes), , huo xiang(agastache). People can take patent drugs such as Huo xiang zheng qi zhi ji (ageratum oral liquid) and Gegen qinlian (pills composed of radix puerariae, baikal skullcap root, coptis root and liquorice).
- The blood system (High fever, chest congestion, irritability and breathing problems): ma huang(ephedrae), xing ren(apricot seed, da huang(rhubarb root), shi gao(gypsum), bai shao(white peony root), xi jiao(cornu rhinoceri)
And after this announcement, East Asian doctors from China and Korea had the H1N1 Academic seminar in beijing to find out the alternative treatment with traditional herbs together in China.
All the herbs and formulas have been widely used around more than at least 1500 years from the period of Shang Han Lun and have shown the effectiveness to treat the infectious disease, which is called 'wen bing'( the disease of heat), because the major symptoms of H1N1 belong to heat and dampness among the pathogens(wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, fire) in East Asian medicine, however if you want to take these herbs or are interested in them, please contact the experienced acupuncturists or herbalist.
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Translated and summarized for the readers by TAO OF MEDICINE, ACUPUNCTURE SANTA MONICA & LOS ANGELES