TCM formulas for sequelae of covid-19

  Recently we hear a lot of cases of sequelae of covid-19. For example, some people complain that they still have dizziness, headache, fatigue, difficulty in breathing, joint pain, coughing, fever and even some serious cases have inflammation of heart or kidney. 

  In TCM (Chinese medicine ) view this is a kind of situation of deficiency of Qi, blood, Yin or Yang. Here let's see what will be the treatment idea of TCM for sequelae of covid-19

 1. Coughing for deficiency of Yin of lung and Qi : This case will be common because the covid-19 is a kind of febril disease  and this fever can consume the Yin, essence and Qi of the patient. In this case usually patient complains the symptoms of dryness or dry mouth, difficulty in sleeping, breathing difficulty, night sweat or gets worse at night, night fever etc. Formulas of Chinse herbal medicine for this case can be Sha shen mai dong tang or Sheng mai san

2. Fatigue, dizziness for deficiency of Qi and blood: if fatigue is the main problem, deficiency of Qi must be considered the first. in this cases, Shi quan dan bu tang, Ba zhen tang can be considered as a treatment formula in TCM

.3 Body pain for wind damp at the joints, deficiency of liquid, Yin, blood stasis : this is also common, the point is nourishing the body and eliminate the blood stasis at the same time. Formulas like Da qin jiao tang, Liu wei di huang wan, Shen tong zhu yu tang etc

4. Diarrhea for deficiency of spleen and dampness : Shen ling bai zhu san can be considered. 

And there can be many other sequelae symptoms that can be considered in TCM view. The point is the sequelae situation is mostly deficiency situation and TCM herbs will be useful for it.