Acupuncture is the insertion of very thin needles through the skin of a patient at specific points of the body, called acupuncture points. This is done in order to achieve a therapeutic effect. After insertion, the needles can be manually stimulated or stimulated through the use of a small electrical current. The use of acupuncture has increased, and been increasingly used for overall wellness and stress management. Traditional Chinese medicine explains that acupuncture is a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force believed to flow through the pathways of the body. 

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- TCM was used during the SARS epidemic in 2003, will extreme benefit
- Treatments included decoction, Chinese patent medicines, acupuncture, and other characteristic therapy of TCM–administration was based on syndrome differentiation
- In fighting COVID-19, patients had a reduced hospital stay, increased CT imaging improvement, faster symptom disappearance, increased clinical cure rate, increased lymphocytes, and reduced severe cases. Qingfei Paidu Decoction (QPD) has an effective cure rate of over 90%

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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have been used for the treatment of both mild and severe cases of COVID-19. TCM has been found to be advantageous for syndrome differentiation, the whole therapeutic effect, reduction of complications, and death rate.

Traditional Chinese medicine for COVID-19 treatment

Ren, J., Zhang, A.-H., & Wang, X.-J. (2020). Traditional Chinese medicine for COVID-19 treatment. Pharmacological Research, 155, 104743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2020.104743

Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine

- The target location of COVID-19 is the lung 
- The etiology attribute is "damp and toxin plague"
- The QPD concoction has 16 herbs that are lung-specific, making it a great treatment for respiratory illnesses like COVID-19. Studies have shown that it has the ability to reduce the cytokine storm triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection.
- The aim of TCM is the holistic balance of Ying and Yang in the body., which strengthenes the body to fight infection 

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