Post COVID-19 sequela, known as long COVID, is a complex multi-system disease. The symptoms generally appear one to three months after confirmed COVID infection. Nowadays, there is still no single effective treatment for long COVID in the medical sector. A recent study by University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Ohio found that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) acupuncture combined with appropriate physiotherapy can quickly and effectively relieve symptoms of the long COVID, or it may become a potential treatment.
The study found that a 50-year-old woman developed symptoms of fatigue, loss of smell, chest tightness, palpitations, dry cough, and brain fog for eight months after being diagnosed with COVID-19. And her medical examination revealed multisystem inflammation. Traditional Chinese medicine diagnosed the patient with symptoms of qi (vital energy) deficiency in the heart, lung, spleen, and kidney….