Prevention and treatment of infectious diseases by traditional Chinese medicine: a commentary

The present review aimed to summarize the effectiveness and features of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for the treatment of infectious diseases and to discuss the limitation of the development of TCM. The personalized medicine with TCM exerts a curative effect on viral and bacterial infectious d...

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Published in:APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica et immunologica Scandinavica microbiologica et immunologica Scandinavica, 2019-05, Vol.127 (5), p.372-384
Main Authors: Ma, Yuexia, Chen, Ming, Guo, Yali, Liu, Jian, Chen, Weitao, Guan, Mengyue, Wang, Yue, Zhao, Xuehui, Wang, Xu, Li, Haoyuan, Meng, Lingxin, Wen, Yulong, Wang, Yuguang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bacterial Infections - drug therapy
Chinese medicine
Climate
Communicable Diseases - drug therapy
Differentiation
Herbal medicine
Humans
Infection Control
infectious disease
Infectious diseases
Medical treatment
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Organ removal
Personalized medicine
Precision medicine
Research design
review
Standardization
syndrome differentiation
Traditional Chinese medicine
Virus Diseases - drug therapy
Western World
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Summary:The present review aimed to summarize the effectiveness and features of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for the treatment of infectious diseases and to discuss the limitation of the development of TCM. The personalized medicine with TCM exerts a curative effect on viral and bacterial infectious diseases with unique advantages on the improvement of clinical manifestation, pathogen inhibition, and organ recovery during severe and drug‐resistant infection. The deficiency of personalized medicine with TCM lies in that the current research design of TCM primarily focuses on the study of the effective components and material basis of Chinese herbs at the cellular, molecular, and genetic level, while ignoring the guidance of the TCM syndrome differentiation theory, which is the core concept of individualized treatment. Personalized medicine with TCM has a broad prospective for infectious diseases due to the specific efficacy and advantages. While the curative effect of individualized treatment with TCM cannot be excluded from the TCM syndrome differentiation theory, the study of personalized medicine with TCM for infectious diseases urgently requires a unified standardization of the clinical syndrome differentiation and the evolution rule of infectious diseases by TCM theory.
ISSN:0903-4641
1600-0463
DOI:10.1111/apm.12928