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    Rays of Hope

    Mar 05, 2020 4 minutes
    By Ji Jing
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    At the Jiangxia Hospital, a hospital converted from the Dahuashan Outdoor Sports Center in Jiangxia District in Wuhan, a national team of over 200 traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) experts are using TCM to treat mildly infected patients. Among the converted hospitals in Wuhan, the city where the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic has been the most severe, the Jiangxia Hospital is the only one to provide mainly TCM treatments.

    Every morning, TCM experts, after examining patients’ pulse and tongue, give them decoctions to treat COVID-19. Patients are also given granulated medicine for fever, cough, anxiety and insomnia.

    Auxiliary treatments are used as well, such as auricular therapy, stimulating of pressure points on the ear, and moxibustion,

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