Chinese Medicine

Swine flu recovered from only TCM
On June, 19th, the first sufferer of H1N1 Swine Flu treated by only TCM recovered from College City Hospital of Guangdong Province Chinese Medicine Hospital. It only costs 7 days and about RMB100.

On June, 11th, Xu, a supervisor of a network company, had symptoms of sore throat and fever. After taking antibiotics by himself and got nowhere, he turned to Guangdong Province Chinese Medicine Hospital. On June, 12th, throat swab showed positive of Influenza A (H1N1). On June, 13th, he was sent to Isolation Wards to receive therapy. When he was in the hospital, the body temperature was 38.7°C, with sore throat, cough, fatigue, congestion of throat (++) and acute tonsillitis.

The doctors were summoned together to give a diagnosis and described only herbal tea. Xu was, at first, skeptical about this therapy of using only herbal tea instead of Tamiflu. But the fact was that he was already down with fever after 24 hours. And all other symptoms were eliminated in 72 hours. 4 days later throat swab showed negative of Influenza A (H1N1).

The theory behind cure swine flu
From the perspective of Chinese Medicine, swine flu is no difference with other regular influenza. Since Chinese medicine can treat other flu, it can also treat swine flu. The base theory for TCM is that it does not kill swine flu virus at all, instead it just adjusts our body environment and creates a favorable battle field for our immune system. It tries to remove those internal conditions in the body that nourish the virus.

It is understandable that people are still skeptical about can Chinese herbal medicine help swine flu? Seemingly they are lack of deep understanding of the theory of TCM. And it is worthy to repeat again that Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) must be tailored to the individuals. It is not one-size-fit-all remedy.