Pondering over COVID 19 Prevented and Treated by Traditional Chinese Medicine/ 关于中医药防治新型冠状病毒肺炎的几点思考

Since the end of 2019, patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia has constantly increased in Wuhan, China Partients' main clinical manifestations included fever, fatigue, nonproductive cough and a few of them had such complications as rhinobyon, rhinorrhea, pharyngeal discomfort, and diarrhea It was reported that isolation was regarded as the most effctive measure to prevent novel coronavirus pneumonia and the treatment should be differentiated between moderate and severe cases In clinic, the doctors should give full play to the advantages of characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), that is, syndrome differentiation, and put an emphasis on the theory and methodology of science of epidemic febrile discase of TCM In addition, it should also pay attention to the study on the valid prescriptions or ingredients targeting pathogen