How Chinese Doctors Treat Swine Flu(H1N1 Influenza) with Herbal Medicine?
Last May ’09 Chinese Health Department announced that Traditional Chinese Herbs can treat H1N1 patients more effectively than Tamiflu. Below is the related news from shanghai Daily May 13, 2009. Swine flu, or more accurately A-H1N1 flu, has alerted people around the world and in China where many people take anti-viral medication to prevent catching flu. But anti-viral medicine is ineffective since flu strains mutate, and it can also be detrimental to health by building resistance, according to a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. TCM practitioners urge people to take the standard precautions – primarily frequent hand washing, airing of rooms. If you feel sick, see a doctor. TCM regards and treats ailments as energy imbalances. It does not have a “germ theory of disease” but perceives pathogens as environmental factors such as pathogenic heat, cold, wind and damp. Improving one’s healthy energy (qi) and boosting immunity can help defending against the flu, according Dr Wu Yingen, a
