Long COVID Sequelae ⁽⁸⁾

Waike Zhengzong (Orthodox Manual of External Medicine) records Maidong Pingfei Yin (Ophiopogon Lung-Calming Drink), a formula for "lung abscess" (feiyong), derived from Maidong Qingfei Yin in the Zazbing Yuanliu Xizhu (Roots and Branches of Miscellaneous Diseases). Its composition is: Renshen (Ginseng), Maimendong (Ophiopogon), Chishao (Red…

In the Gu Jin Yi Tong Daquan there is a formula called Yangxin Tang, composed of: Angelicae Sinensis Radix (Danggui), Rehmanniae Radix (Shengdi), Rehmanniae preparata (Shudi), and Poriae Sclerotium Pararadicis (Fushen), each 1 qian (3 g); Ginseng and Ophiopogon, each 1.5 qian (4.5 g); Schisandrae…

Viral myocarditis is currently one of the more common post-COVID sequelae. The disease is complex, has a long course, greatly affects the patient's quality of life, and is not easy to treat. Here we excerpt the experience of the late veteran TCM physician Zhao Xinbo…

Patient Ms. Zhong, female, born in Guangzhou in 1955, now residing in New York, USA, is a lung cancer patient. Post-lung-cancer surgery, she is taking the targeted drug Tagrisso (osimertinib). She has had renal insufficiency since surgery, with elevated serum creatinine. The renal insufficiency caused…

Since COVID, many people have become constitutionally weaker, especially those with pre-existing chronic diseases involving reduced immunity such as hypertension or hypotension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and cancer. After repeated colds (some of which were likely repeated COVID infections), they have developed unusual complications. These complications are…

Over this year, I have seen, one after another, about ten patients who died from long COVID. Almost all died of sudden cardiac death—cerebral infarction, myocardial infarction, or cor pulmonale—too suddenly to be rescued. On hospital imaging, most showed a white lung. There were reasons…

The formula for Zixinyin Oral Liquid appears in the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China, Part I, 2005 edition. It consists of four herbs: Maimendong (Ophiopogonis Radix), Chishao (Paeoniae Radix rubra), Beishashen (Glehniae Radix), and Sanqi (Notoginseng Radix et Rhizoma), prepared by a specified…

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…