People’s Daily Online, Beijing, November 19 (Reporter Cui Yuanyuan) According to the National Health and Wellness Commission, experts predict that the flu activity will gradually increase in the middle and late November, and then China will gradually enter the flu season from north to south.
On the 13th, the General Office of the National Health and Wellness Commission and the Office of state administration of traditional chinese medicine jointly issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Influenza Medical Care this winter and next spring. The "Notice" clearly stated that in the medical treatment of influenza, we should give full play to the characteristics and advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, treat according to syndrome differentiation, scientifically apply traditional Chinese medicine technology and methods to carry out treatment, and strive to improve clinical efficacy.
"Traditional Chinese medicine has accumulated rich experience in the prevention and treatment of influenza, and there are many effective prescriptions. It is safer to use drugs, and there will be no disadvantages such as flora imbalance and drug resistance." Liu Qingquan, president of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University, said.
The flu is not a cold, so we should distinguish it correctly.
According to state administration of traditional chinese medicine’s official WeChat popular science, the flu is called influenza. In life, people often confuse influenza with cold. In fact, they are not the same. Influenza may cause life-threatening complications, which need timely treatment and cannot be neglected.
Miao Qing, director of the Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, pointed out that flu and cold can be distinguished from each other by symptoms. Influenza patients often have high fever and chills of 39 to 40 degrees Celsius, with obvious body pain and often severe cough, while the common cold has no fever or mild to moderate fever without chills, and often has symptoms such as stuffy nose and sore throat.
Liu Qingquan introduced that influenza is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by human infection with influenza virus, which is different from the common cold. Moreover, influenza virus is changeable and highly contagious, so attention should be paid to prevention and early treatment.
"In traditional Chinese medicine, there is no ‘ Influenza ’ A word, but as early as in the "rites of rites" put forward ‘ Epidemic disease ’ The concept recognizes that it is different from common colds and colds, and it is a disease that is contagious, easy to cause epidemics, and fever and headache are the main manifestations. " Liu Qingquan said.
Liu Qingquan reminded that even the common cold should be paid attention to and treated in time, otherwise it will easily lead to the occurrence of influenza. If you have symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, you must seek medical attention immediately.
Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of preventing and treating influenza and does have advantages.
The "Guiding Opinions of Experts on Prevention and Treatment of Influenza in Winter of 2019 in Beijing" issued by Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine suggests that Chinese medicine should be the first choice for the treatment of influenza, and the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine is recommended for high-risk groups, severe and critical cases prone to severe illness after illness.
Liu Qingquan believes that the prevention and treatment of influenza with Chinese medicine has a long history in China and has played an important role in safeguarding people’s health.
It is understood that as early as the period of Huangdi Neijing, influenza was diagnosed as "typhoid fever". Fifty-eight Difficult Classics puts forward five classification methods of typhoid fever, namely, apoplexy, typhoid fever, damp-warm disease, fever disease and epidemic febrile disease. In the Qing Dynasty, Ye Tianshi established the syndrome differentiation of defending qi and nourishing blood, and Yinqiao Powder, which was created by Wu Jutong, was still widely used, and their research on influenza reached a peak.
In recent years, the research on the prevention and treatment of influenza by traditional Chinese medicine has deepened. In 2009, A (H1N1) broke out all over the world. Based on Maxing Shigan Decoction for treating typhoid and Yinqiao Powder for treating epidemic febrile diseases, after more than six months of clinical research, experts optimized the effective prescription Jinhua Qinggan Formula, which was recognized by Chinese and western medicine experts at home and abroad.
TCM treatment of influenza should be based on syndrome differentiation, and Chinese patent medicine should not be abused.
Li Guangxi, chief physician of the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Guang ‘anmen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that due to different seasons and different climates, Chinese medicine has different diagnoses of influenza, such as typhoid fever, wet temperature, spring temperature and winter temperature, and the methods and drugs for preventing and treating influenza are also different. All of these need to be combined with syndrome differentiation, and doctors can accurately judge the condition before using it. People should not abuse proprietary Chinese medicines with heat-clearing and detoxification functions.
"The key to treating influenza with traditional Chinese medicine is to pay attention to the treatment of initial and severe diseases." Liu Qingquan pointed out that the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is not only aimed at the etiology, but also at the internal factors of human body. Instead, it grasps the law of the interaction between the etiology and the body, and accordingly formulates corresponding treatment principles and methods. For example, "typhoid fever" is caused by cold pathogen hurting yang, so it is necessary to use pungent warming method at first and then return to yang later, while "epidemic febrile disease" is caused by heat pathogen hurting yin, so it is necessary to use pungent cooling at first and save yin later.
Liu Qingquan reminded that if you have fever symptoms, you must not blindly cover your sweat and sweat. Because, Chinese medicine believes that "healthy qi exists in the interior, and evil can’t be done", the occurrence of influenza is directly related to healthy qi deficiency. Protecting healthy qi can better resist diseases, and the method of covering sweat is likely to damage healthy qi.
It is very important for high-risk groups to prevent influenza and do early prevention.
According to the official WeChat account of state administration of traditional chinese medicine, children and the elderly are susceptible to influenza. For children, the main harm of influenza comes from complicated pneumonia, bronchitis, meningitis, etc. In general, the younger the child, the more serious the illness, and the greater the health risk. However, the resistance of the elderly is weak, and it is easy to cause complications such as myocarditis after getting the flu, which will also aggravate the original chronic diseases. These two groups of people should pay special attention to the prevention of influenza.
"Children are different from the elderly in their physical constitution, and the internal causes of their illness mainly lie in food stagnation, internal heat, excessive internal heat, etc. Therefore, for children, the focus of preventing and treating influenza is to do early prevention work." Yan Huimin, an expert in traditional Chinese medicine at Beijing Children’s Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, suggested that children should adjust their diet structure in time in winter, eat more light and digestible food, and at the same time strengthen exercise, work and rest regularly, and get the flu vaccine.
If you have fever symptoms, you should give priority to physical cooling. If you can use traditional Chinese medicine to reduce fever, you should try not to use western medicine to reduce fever. The Work Plan for Influenza Prevention and Control in Epidemic Season 2019-2020 also emphasizes that Chinese patent medicines without indications for children should not be used by children.
Liu Qingquan suggested that the elderly should pay attention to the rules of life in the prevention and control of influenza, keep enough sleep, and should not stay up too much and eat spicy food. When exercising in the morning, don’t overdo it, don’t sweat too much, and take the slight sweating on your body as the criterion. After entering the winter, the elderly generally pay more attention to keep warm, but they should not wear too much clothes, which will cause internal heat and lead to flu more easily. At the same time, the elderly often have chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, so we must pay attention to the control of chronic diseases during the influenza epidemic to keep our bodies in good condition.
In addition, Li Guangxi said that for the elderly and patients with lung diseases in the past, a flu may mean a painful process that lasts for more than a month, especially in the respiratory symptoms such as cough and expectoration, and the medication effect is not good. In this case, you can try to further treat it with external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine replacing tea can recuperate physique and enhance resistance.
Jiang Liangduo, chief physician of Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, believes that the prevention of influenza can also achieve the purpose of enhancing one’s own resistance by taking traditional Chinese medicine instead of tea and gently recuperating one’s physique.
"Chinese medicine for tea also needs to be applied in a dialectical way. It is necessary to distinguish between qi deficiency, yin deficiency, phlegm dampness and heat accumulation and use different tea-making prescriptions." Jiang Liangduo has prescribed four anti-influenza traditional Chinese medicine teas:
1. For people with qi deficiency who are short of breath, prone to sweating and fatigue, 3 grams of Codonopsis pilosula and 3 grams of Folium Perillae can be used to make tea, and tea can be added appropriately. It is recommended to add a little Pogostemon in the southern region; Second, people with yin deficiency who are prone to dry lips, fatigue and colds can choose 6 grams of lily, 3 grams of mulberry leaves and 3 grams of chrysanthemum (not wild chrysanthemum or bitter chrysanthemum); 3. For people with phlegm and dampness who don’t like to drink, feel sleepy all over, and often feel chest and abdominal distension, you can choose 3 grams of Pogostemon, 3 grams of Eupatorium odoratum and 1 gram of mint. 4. For people with accumulated heat who are prone to sores and excessive internal heat, 3 grams of Trollius chinensis, 2 grams of Folium Isatidis and 6 grams of Rhizoma Phragmitis can be used as the tea-making prescription.