Therapeutic strategy of traditional Chinese medicine for COVID-19

Abstract

2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia is an acute infectious pneumonia outbreak at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province. It belongs to the category of "epidemic disease" in TCM. Early intervention of traditional Chinese medicine has played an important role in this epidemic situation.In each stage, it has shown the advantages of treatment, accumulated rich experience, and initially formed a set of mechanism of Chinese medicine to prevent and treat acute infectious diseases. This article summarizes the classical prescriptions during each period of the disease, the screening methods of effective prescriptions and the clinical studies that have been carried out. This article can preliminarily showed the active part of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia.