Chia-Yu Liu1,2,3,4*
1Flourish Chinese Medicine Clinic, Taipei, Taiwan
2School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University,
Taichung, Taiwan
3School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University,
Taoyuan, Taiwan
4Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung
University, Taipei, Taiwan
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This case report demonstrates that treating two mild cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the view of dampness warm in the warm disease theory. The author used several Chinese medicine formulas to match patients’clinical patterns including Forsythia & Acorus Formula (Gan Lu Xiao Du Dan), Pogostemon Formula (Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San), and Ma Huang & Apricot Seed Combination (Ma Xing Gan Shi Tang). Those patients got clinically improved and their COVID-19 nucleic acid testing conversed to negative. The Tongue diagnosis is routinely used in the telemedicine of the Chinese medicine clinics to evaluate the severity of disease and also the important clues of the pattern differentiation by the view of the warm disease.
【Keywords】Dampness Warm; Warm Disease; COVID-19, Chinese Medicine
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