Abstract
There is currently no drug or therapy that can cure the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is highly contagious and can be life-threatening in severe cases. Therefore, seeking potential effective therapies is an urgent task. An older female at the Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan, China, with a severe case of COVID-19 with significant shortness of breath and decrease in peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ), was treated using manual acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine granule formula Fuzheng Rescue Lung with Xuebijing Injection in addition to standard care. The patient’s breath rate, SpO 2 , heart rate, ratio of neutrophil/lymphocyte (NLR), ratio of monocyte/lymphocyte (MLR), C-reactive protein (CRP), and chest computed tomography were monitored. Acupuncture significantly improved the patient’s breathing function, increased SpO 2 , and decreased her heart rate. Chinese herbal medicine might make the effect of acupuncture more stable; the use of herbal medicine also seemed to accelerate the absorption of lung infection lesions when its dosage was increased. The combination of acupuncture and herbs decreased NLR from 14.14 to 5.83, MLR from 1.15 to 0.33 and CRP from 15.25 to 6.01 mg/L. These results indicate that acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, as adjuvants to standard care, might achieve better results in treating severe cases of COVID-19.
Keywords: Acupuncture; COVID-19; Case report; Chinese herbal medicine; Integrative therapy; Severe case.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, Case report, Integrative therapy, Severe case., 【초록키워드】 coronavirus disease, Coronavirus disease 2019, therapy, neutrophil, C-reactive protein, CRP, oxygen, Lung infection, adjuvants, acupuncture, herbal medicine, Case report, monocyte, Computed tomography, Chest computed tomography, lymphocyte, Wuhan, female, breath, Patient, severe cases, adjuvant, heart rate, NLR, Combination, rescue, Shortness of breath, lesion, Older, standard care, peripheral oxygen saturation, dosage, Chinese, life-threatening, Severe case, effective therapy, Absorption, contagious, MLR, decrease, Wuhan, China, significantly, the patient, addition, treated, accelerate, breathing function, seeking, was increased, 【제목키워드】 severe COVID-19, Patient, Chinese,