JI Pengcheng,LI Shuang,XIE Yuansheng.The Contribution of Chinese Medicine in Prevention and Control of Epidemics[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2021,62(20):1749-1755.
JI Pengcheng,LI Shuang,XIE Yuansheng.The Contribution of Chinese Medicine in Prevention and Control of Epidemics[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2021,62(20):1749-1755.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2021.20.001.
The Contribution of Chinese Medicine in Prevention and Control of Epidemics
Epidemic diseases are highly contagious, prevalent, and can cause damages. In combat with the epidemics, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has gradually established its knowledge as well as prevention and control system on epidemics, mainly including infectivity, etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations. The etiology and pathogenesis involve three aspects,i.e. abnormal climate, insufficiency of healthy
qi
and the invasion of pestilence
qi
. It can be transmitted either through “channels and collaterals” or through “mouth and nose”. Epidemiological characteristics, clinical symptoms and signs, and treatment effectivess refelection are taken as clues for diagnosis. Therapeutic principle and method have experienced five stages from generalized cold damage, febrile disease, pestilence, warm disease, to specific disease. There are three types of specific prescriptions in correspondence to the specific disease, stage, and symptom, respectively. The commonly used TCM therapies has been summarized including to cut off the transmission routes, to improve the medical and public health conditions, and to take vaccination to prevent from the disease. The thoughts and measures of TCM are of important value for the prevention and control of modern infectious diseases.
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