Chinese Medicine Characteristic Nursing for Mild and Ordinary Types of SARS-CoV-2 Virus Infected Patients

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 is a new type of coronavirus, its source has not been accurately traced back. According to relevant medical studies, this noncellular morphological microorganism of about 60-140 nm in length may cause severe respiratory, cardiovascular and digestive system damage to infected patients. The disease caused by the virus is named as COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) by WHO. For COVID-19, no matter it is an anonymous asymptomatic treatment by Chinese and Western medicine, there is currently no specific medicine. The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) book named as “Basic Questions · Acupuncture Theory” points out that this kind of disease is a epidemic disease, easy to infect each other, and its symptoms are similar for all ages. Based on many years of traditional Chinese medicine nursing experience and authoritative literature, the author summarizes a set of traditional Chinese medicine characteristic nursing program for mild / ordinary type of SARS-CoV-2 virus infected patients, which can make the patient recover quickly. The main idea is to improve the patients’ resistance to the coronavirus by using traditional Chinese medicine characteristic nursing such as diet conditioning, scraping, massage, plaster, baduanjin exercise, moxibustion and Chinese medicine emotion nursing on the basis of TCM syndrome differentiation and classification. The TCM characteristic nursing program summarized in this paper has been applied to patients with mild / ordinary type of new coronavirus pneumonia, and has achieved good nursing results.