Luo Yuan-Zhi1Chou Hui-Jer1Wu Pei-Yun1
1Department of Chinese Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Renai Branch, Taipei, Taiwan
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Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19), a global epidemic, has been broken up for three years at least. It greatly changed the lifestyle of human beings all over the world. Because of SARS-CoV-2 rapid mutation to variable subtype, the infected show mild symptoms which one of was diarrhea, most common symptoms in gastrointestinal tract. According to the different reports, the results reveal that the prevalence of the diarrhea might range from 2 to 49.5 percent in the infected. Diarrhea would result from many factors, for example, natural course of disease, iatrogenic, or the drug side effects. The effects of NRICM101, novel Chinese traditional medicine, are eutherapeutic to treat mild to moderate symptoms of COVID-19, was developed by National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, MOHW. However, diarrhea is a frequent occurrence of the patients who toke NRICM101. This paper is a case report about diarrhea after using the prescription of the modification of Ling Gan Jiang Wei Xin Xia Ren Tang and Jie Geng Tang. We want to discuss that whether the mechanism of diarrhea is reverse reaction or
not, which is based on the concepts of Treatise on Cold Pathogenic Diseases.
【Keywords】Chinese traditional medicine; COVID-19; diarrhea; Treatise on Cold
Pathogenic Diseases; reverse reaction
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