Authors | Title | Journal | Date | Conclusion |
Ren et al. | Traditional Chinese medicine for COVID-19 treatment | Pharmacol Res. | Mar. 4 | a number of clinical practice results showed that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) plays significant role in the treatment of COVID-19, bringing new hope for the prevention and control of COVID-19 |
Chan et al. | COVID-19: An Update on the Epidemiological, Clinical, Preventive and Therapeutic Evidence and Guidelines of Integrative Chinese–Western Medicine for the Management of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease | The American Journal of Chinese Medicine | Mar. 13 | Given the paucity of strongly evidence-based regimens, the available data suggest that Chinese medicine could be considered as an adjunctive therapeutic option in the management of COVID-19. |
Yang et al. | Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Patients Infected with 2019-New Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): A Review and Perspective | Int J Biol Sci | Mar. 15 | Current experiment studies that provide an insight into the mechanism underlying the therapeutic effect of TCM, and those studies identified novel naturally occurring compounds with anti-coronaviral activity are also introduced. |
Zhang K | Is traditional Chinese medicine useful in the treatment of COVID-19? | The American Journal of Emergency Medicine | Mar. 25 | In veiw of the current evidence for the treatment of COVID-19 mainly comes from in vitro cell tests, animal experiments, and data mining, the level of evidence for the effectiveness of TCM research is relatively high, because it is clinical and real-world studies. |
The Lantern | Special Issue on Covid-19 | The Lantern | May | Papers written by TCM scholars and doctors |