Reflections on the potential role of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of COVID-19 and subsequent health problems

Birch, Stephen; Alræk, Terje; Gröbe, Sascha

doi:10.1016/j.imr.2021.100780

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“…36,37 This indicates that long COVID will likely have a profound public health impact, and although few reports of TCM that include acupuncture for long COVID are currently available, the evidence is emerging. 38 And indeed, effectiveness is increasingly anecdotally observed in the practice of acupuncturists (personal experience and personal communication). More definitive evidence must await larger clinical trials in China and the United States, and these will certainly be forthcoming given that millions of individuals are currently suffering or will suffer from long COVID.…”

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Traditional Chinese Medicine and COVID-19: Experiences, Lessons, and Suggestions

Yuan¹,

Amieux

2022

Chinese Medicine and Culture

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Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has now entered its third year as a worldwide pandemic. Unlike the Unites States, over 90% of patients have used traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in China combined with conventional western medicine. The present minireview/commentary summarizes the experiences of TCM in the treatment of COVID-19 combined with conventional western medicine, lessons from the United States and some additional insights. COVID-19 falls into the category of "dampness−toxin plague" and is divided into five stages: mild stage, moderate stage, severe stage, critical stage, and recovery stage. Clinical trials conducted in China have suggested that TCM treatment plays a significant role in alleviating clinical symptoms, decreasing the time of hospitalization, reducing the overall fatality rate, and providing other beneficial outcomes when combined with conventional western medicine. To date, TCM is not widely used in the American hospital system. Only one TCM clinical trial to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 has been registered with ClinicalTrials.gov. A suggestion of dialogues among associated parties is proposed. TCM has been used as part of an integrative medicine treatment paradigm combined with conventional western medicine for COVID-19 in China. As registered clinical trials combining conventional western medicine with TCM continue to be produced and show positive benefits, the possibilities for TCM integration into treatment protocols for COVID-19 will become more of a possibility in the United States.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine and COVID-19: Experiences, Lessons, and Suggestions

Yuan¹,

Amieux

2022

Chinese Medicine and Culture

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“…7 From more commonly seen post-viral complaints such as fatigue, brain fog and depression to more immediately life-threatening symptoms such as prolonged respiratory problems, blood clots and new cardiac conditions, which appear to be characteristic to the COVID-19 virus infection. 6 Within lots of long Covid symptoms, we will focus upon the following 3 key problems including loss of smell, loss of taste, insomnia, which are very potential upon acupuncture treatment. Among 958 patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in 2020 were observed by Augustin et al for long-term symptoms.…”

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“…In 2021, Birch et al firstly discussed deeply about "potential role of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of Covid-19 and subsequent health problems". 6…”

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Acupuncture strategies for long COVID: focusing on anosmia, ageusia and insomnia

Chen¹,

Lin²,

Yang³

2019

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“…Different variants can trigger different degrees of infection, symptoms, rate of transmission and susceptibility. Furthermore, it is evident that treatment for one variant does not necessarily work for another (Birch et al 2021 ). Hence, to increase the population’s protection against COVID-19, the rich countries have endorsed booster doses due to emergence of a new variant with suggestive immune escape and potentials for reinfection (The Lancet Regional Health 2022 ).…”

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“…Epidemiological investigations have shown that RNA viruses have high mutation rate (Abidemi et al 2021). Like many other viruses, it is no longer news that COVID-19 mutates particularly during the high transmission periods (Birch et al 2021). For instance, on September 7, 2020, the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in India (Kang et al 2022).…”

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Mathematical Model of COVID-19 Pandemic with Double Dose Vaccination

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This paper is concerned with the formulation and analysis of an epidemic model of COVID-19 governed by an eight-dimensional system of ordinary differential equations, by taking into account the first dose and the second dose of vaccinated individuals in the population. The developed model is analyzed and the threshold quantity known as the control reproduction number is obtained. We investigate the equilibrium stability of the system, and the COVID-free equilibrium is said to be locally asymptotically stable when the control reproduction number is less than unity, and unstable otherwise. Using the least-squares method, the model is calibrated based on the cumulative number of COVID-19 reported cases and available information about the mass vaccine administration in Malaysia between the 24th of February 2021 and February 2022. Following the model fitting and estimation of the parameter values, a global sensitivity analysis was performed by using the Partial Rank Correlation Coefficient (PRCC) to determine the most influential parameters on the threshold quantities. The result shows that the effective transmission rate , the rate of first vaccine dose , the second dose vaccination rate and the recovery rate due to the second dose of vaccination are the most influential of all the model parameters. We further investigate the impact of these parameters by performing a numerical simulation on the developed COVID-19 model. The result of the study shows that adhering to the preventive measures has a huge impact on reducing the spread of the disease in the population. Particularly, an increase in both the first and second dose vaccination rates reduces the number of infected individuals, thus reducing the disease burden in the population.

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Reflections on the potential role of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of COVID-19 and subsequent health problems

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Traditional Chinese Medicine and COVID-19: Experiences, Lessons, and Suggestions

Traditional Chinese Medicine and COVID-19: Experiences, Lessons, and Suggestions

Acupuncture strategies for long COVID: focusing on anosmia, ageusia and insomnia

Mathematical Model of COVID-19 Pandemic with Double Dose Vaccination

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