Review and Reflection on the Prevention of COVID-19 by Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on the Theory of Preventive Treatment of Disease

ABSTRACT

Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19)constitutes a pandemic worldwide, the novel coronavirus(SARS-CoV-2)is still the focus of prevention and control before the full spread of vaccines.Prevention is the key to controlling the epidemic. The Health Management Administration of the various provinces and cities have released the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment Programs for New Coronavirus Pneumonia" in response to the epidemic situation, among them including a lot of preventive prescriptions of TCM, which emphasizes to adhere to the advanced disease prevention concept of TCM preventing treatment of disease, and based on the principle of "strengthening vital energy and expelling pathogenic factors", through the methods of taking traditional Chinese medicine, medicated diet, medicated tea, acupuncture and guidance, and actively mobilizes the vital qi of human body and strengthen the physique, so as to achieve the epidemic prevention purpose of "the vital qi is stored in the body, the pathogenic factors cannot". The article reviews the prevention programs of TCM issued by various regions, analyzes and summarizes the rules of preventive medicine of TCM, in order to provide reference for the general public and the front-line clinical prevention of COVID-19. Copyright © 2021, Central Station of Chinese Medicinal Materials Information, National Medical Products Administration. All right reserved.