从“炎症风暴”学说探讨针刺防治新冠肺炎的可行性分析

Discussion on Scientific Basis of Acupuncture Prevention and Treatment of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia from“Inflammatory Storm”Theory

近期新型冠状病毒在全国广泛传播,给人民的生活、健康造成了极大的危害。近日中国科学技术大学通过研究发现,"炎症风暴"是导致新型冠状病毒肺炎患者病情加重甚至死亡的一个重要因素,基于此学说,将抑制炎症因子的药物应用于临床后取得了初步的疗效。针刺治疗目前已被广泛地运用于多种炎性疾病的治疗中,大量实验亦证实了针刺能从多种途径对于多种炎症因子具有抑制作用,并能激活多种抗炎因子从而发挥抗炎作用。故针刺预计能通过抑制"炎症风暴"的方式,缓解新型冠状病毒感染所引发的自身免疫性并发症,从而达到治疗干预的效果。

Recently, novel coronavirus has been widely spread throughout the country, which has caused great harm topeople’s lives and health. Novel coronavirus pneumonia is an important factor leading to the aggravation or even death ofpatients with new coronavirus pneumonia. Based on this theory, University of science and technology of China hasachieved initial results in the application of drugs that inhibit inflammatory factors. Acupuncture has been widely usedin the treatment of a variety of inflammatory diseases. A large number of experiments also confirmed that acupuncturecan inhibit a variety of inflammatory factors from a variety of ways, and can activate a variety of anti-inflammatoryfactors to play an anti-inflammatory role. It is expected that acupuncture can alleviate the autoimmune complicationscaused by new coronavirus infection by alleviating the"inflammatory storm".