China shares TCM treatment to COVID-19 with foreign countries

China is sharing the experience of using traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the treatment of
COVID-19 patients with foreign countries, such as Italy, as clinical observation shows that TCM
has been effective on 90 percent of more than 74,000 Chinese COVID-19 patients whose
treatment involved TCM.
Chinese medicine experts stressed TCMs significant role in the battle against the epidemic at a
press conference on Monday, noting that more than 90 percent of all coronavirus patients in
China used TCM during their treatment, including 61,000 in Wuhan, the city hit hardest by the
epidemic.
TCM is effective in alleviating symptoms and preventing mild cases from falling into a critical
condition, said Zhang Boli, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, at the press
conference, noting that among more than 10,000 patients in Wuhans makeshift hospitals who
took TCM treatment, only 2-5 percent of them deteriorated to the severe stage.
China has been sending out TCM products, acupuncture needles, and Chinese medicine
instruments to other countries in need to aid their battles against the coronavirus.
More than 100,000 boxes of TCM have been sent to Italy, with more to be potentially shipped
there in the near future.
Professional TCM doctors have also provided technical support and shared their experience in
applying TCM in the treatment of coronavirus patients in video conferences, while some others
were sent to Italy, Cambodia and other countries to support anti-epidemic efforts.