Chinese medical four-diagnosis information of 102 patients with Ebola virus disease in Sierra LeoneChina Friendship Hospital in Freetown

the capital of Sierra Leone

was collected

and the characteristics of clinical symptoms were analyzed. It is considered that Ebola virus disease is accorded with the category of "febrile diseases in summer"and "damp toxin"in Chinese medicine. This disease breaks out abruptly in initial stage and its common symptoms include high fever

fatigue

head and bodily pain

sore throat

and accompanying with nausea

vomiting

abdominal pain and diarrhea. After the fifth to seventh day

some patients go into fastigium when the pestilential poison forces blood to flow

continuous high fever

rash

ecchymosis and multiple-site bleeding

including epistaxis

hematemesis

hemoptysis

hemafecia and hematuria. Gradually

disturbance of consciousness

oliguria

faint and prostration appear. Most patients died of bleeding and multi-organ failure within two weeks of attacking. Chinese medicine holds that the internal cause of the disease is debility

and healthy Qi insufficient to withstand seasonal evil-Qi

leading to febrile diseases in summer and damp toxin intruding from the texture and interspace of the skin. Then the disease gradually becomes exacerbated according to the order of Wei-Qi-Ying-Xue. The critical illness can present with faint and prostration syndrome

probably causing to death.