China released a white paper on the country's battle against the emerging coronavirus on Sunday, and the book was published by the State Council Information Office under the title "Fighting Covid-19 .. China is Moving ", according to the Xinhua news agency.
The book was published to record the country's efforts to fight the virus, share its experiences with the rest of the world and clarify its thoughts on the world battle, according to the white paper.
Faced with "the unknown, unexpected and devastating disease", China has launched a determined battle to prevent and control it, the book added.
High recovery rate
According to the white paper, the cure rate for Covid-19 patients has reached more than 94% on the Chinese mainland, and by the end of May, 83,177 confirmed cases had been reported on the Chinese mainland, and 78,307 patients injured had left hospitals after their recovery. While 4,634 people died from an illness.
He mentioned that traditional Chinese medicine was used to treat 92% of all confirmed cases of emerging coronavirus virus in China.
The white paper added that a set of diagnostic and treatment protocols for traditional Chinese medicine had been developed to cover all of the processes of medical observation, treatment of mild, moderate, severe and critical conditions, and recovery, and had been applied nationally.
He noted that more than 90% of the confirmed cases in Hubei province - who had been seriously affected by Covid-19 - had received traditional Chinese medicine treatments which had proven to be effective.
What is traditional Chinese medicine?
The history of traditional Chinese medicine goes back thousands of years and hasn't changed much over the centuries, and its basic concept is that a life force called "chi" spreads through the body , and any imbalance in chi can cause disease, and it is often thought that this imbalance is caused by a change in the opposing and complementary forces that make up chi, these are called "yin" and "yang", according to the site Johns Hopkins Medicine Web.
The ancient Chinese believed that humans are a microcosm of the surrounding universe, they are interconnected and subject to nature, and the balance between health and disease is the main concept, and the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine seeks to restore this balance through individual treatment.
It is believed that to restore balance, you must reach it between the internal organs of the body and the external elements of earth, fire, water, wood and metal, and can include acupuncture, ironing, suction cups, massages and herbal treatments.
According to the Johns Hopkins website, some herbal remedies used in traditional Chinese medicine can work like drugs, are very effective, but can also have serious side effects.
In 2004, for example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the sale of nutritional supplements containing ephedra and plants containing ephedra group alkaloids due to complications, such as heart attacks and strokes, and ephedra is a Chinese herb used in nutritional supplements.
The site also indicates that traditional Chinese medicine should not be used as a substitute for medical and drug treatment, especially severe cases, but that it can be useful when using complementary therapy.
Since some herbal medicines from traditional Chinese medicine can interfere or be toxic when combined with medicines, you should tell your doctor if you are using traditional Chinese medicine.
The wild animals
Wild animals can enter traditional Chinese medicine. For example, the bear lighter is one of the favorite foods in Chinese traditions, and it is one of eight Chinese foods that have also been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years, according to the Deutsche website. Welle.
Most of the results of treatment with these animals and plants are based on people's experience, and most of them have not been proven effective in modern human medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have given this type of treatment attractive and promising names to encourage its use. For example, the bat exudate called "Yeh Mingsha" or "treasure of sand that lights up at night".
How effective is it?
Although the white paper provides a very high percentage of those treated by Corona with traditional Chinese medicine (92%), there are doubts as to its effectiveness.
For example, in a previous report, the Swiss newspaper Lotan quoted a member of the French Academic Council for Chinese Medicine, Marc Ferrier, according to which he believed that traditional medicines could help fight fever or eliminate mucus, which are symptoms viral pneumonia, but warns that some of the treatments provided are of questionable quality, He pointed out that Chinese medicine lacks standards of scientific competence, as it depends on individual treatment.
Traditional treatments were widely used in China with western medicines during the 2003 SARS epidemic that killed 774 people worldwide, most in China, but a Cochrane study in 2012 demonstrated that this combination of treatments "n 'changed nothing' in Fighting the epidemic.
According to the newspaper, Beijing published in 2016 the first white paper on traditional medicine which specifically defends the creation of specialized centers in developing countries, while sending ready doctors. Indeed, Chinese President Xi Jinping himself described traditional medicine as "the treasure of Chinese civilization", and was announced in October. Last October, it should have as much influence as modern medicine.
Ferrar notes that traditional medicine in China is only part of a "cultural message that Beijing is seeking to spread around the world" and, after years of campaigning, has successfully persuaded the World Organization to include Chinese medicine in the "International Classification of Diseases", which has been challenged by the Scientific Council of the Academies of Sciences. European and considered it a "big problem" due to the lack of scientific evidence to prove the effectiveness of Chinese medicine.
0 Comments