COVID-19 ⁽⁷²⁾

Post-COVID sequelae are hard to treat. My skill being limited, my effective rate for post-COVID sequelae is very low. Of the post-COVID patients I treated over recent months, not a single one responded; only recently have two patients shown some effect. I now record the…

After coming into contact with more and more post-COVID patients, I have realized that Long COVID is truly tricky and not as simple as I first imagined. Two classmates of my master's wife have lost their husbands to Long COVID one after another this year.

Many patients develop long COVID more than a month after SARS-CoV-2 infection. The after-effects are extremely varied, but the great majority are related to vascular lesions.The most common symptoms include tachycardia or bradycardia, arrhythmia, shortness of breath, cough and wheezing, fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, depression, hair…

After the Spring Festival, especially after returning to Beijing from my hometown, I began to feel that my body is not as good as before. The most obvious sign is that my heart occasionally feels faintly uncomfortable; the cardiac discomfort also makes my hands feel…

Patient Chen, male, 81 years old, a native of Gutian, Fujian. On December 26, 2022, the patient caught COVID, with fever of 38.5°C, clouded consciousness, and inability to recognize family members; he was admitted to Gutian County Hospital, Fujian. CT at Gutian County Hospital showed:…

COVID has now damaged the heart and brain blood vessels of many middle-aged and elderly patients. Based on my recent clinical medication insights, I have provisionally devised a pill formula for those who had pre-existing cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease that worsened after COVID infection, or…

Case OnePatient Xia, a native of Weihai, Shandong, now 87. She was diagnosed 20 years ago with arteriosclerosis and heart disease; in 2014 she had coronary bypass surgery with two stents implanted, and she felt the bypass surgery did not improve her clinical symptoms. In…

Some patients recovered from COVID now develop numbness of the hands and feet and lower back pain as sequelae. In TCM this belongs to the bi (impediment) syndrome and can be treated with modified Huangqi Guizhi Wuwu Tang.The formula is: raw Huangqi (Astragalus) 10 g,…

Recently I have treated many patients with viral pneumonia due to the COVID virus (many of them with white lung), as well as some patients with coronary blockage presenting with chest tightness and chest pain, and some cerebral-infarction patients presenting with dizziness and headache. I…

Patient Zhao, 80 years old, from Peishe Village, Wenxi County, Shanxi. The patient's mother died of cor pulmonale. The patient has no bad habits; his personality had become irritable over the past year due to a cerebral infarction. He had rectal cancer surgery 10 years…