基于“治未病”理论中医药预防新型冠状病毒肺炎的回顾与思考

Review and Reflection on the Prevention of COVID-19 by Traditional Chinese Medicine Based on the Theory of Preventive Treatment of Disease

新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19,简称“新冠肺炎”)在全球形成“大流行”,在疫苗完全普及之前,新型冠状病毒(SARS-CoV-2)的防控仍是日常重点,预防是控制疫情的关键。在全国各省区卫生管理部门发布的《新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎中医药诊疗方案》(以下简称“诊疗方案”)中,推荐了许多中医药预防方法,强调坚持中医“治未病”的先进防病理念,以“扶正祛邪”为主,通过内服中药、药膳药茶、针灸、导引等方法,积极调动人体正气,增强体质,以达到“正气存内,邪不可干”的防疫目的。该文对全国各地区发布的中医药预防方案进行回顾,分析总结中医药预防用药的规律,以期为人民大众以及一线临床预防COVID-19提供科学参考。

Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19)constitutes a pandemic worldwide,the novel coronavirus(SARS-CoV-2)is still the focus of prevention and control before the full spread of vaccines.Prevention is the key to controlling the epidemic.The Health Management Administration of the various provinces and cities have released the“Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment Programs for New Coronavirus Pneumonia”in response to the epidemic situation,among them including a lot of preventive prescriptions of TCM,which emphasizes to adhere to the advanced disease prevention concept of TCM preventing treatment of disease,and based on the principle of“strengthening vital energy and expelling pathogenic factors”,through the methods of taking traditional Chinese medicine,medicated diet,medicated tea,acupuncture and guidance,and actively mobilizes the vital qi of human body and strengthen the physique,so as to achieve the epidemic prevention purpose of“the vital qi is stored in the body,the pathogenic factors cannot”.The article reviews the prevention programs of TCM issued by various regions,analyzes and summarizes the rules of preventive medicine of TCM,in order to provide reference for the general public and the front-line clinical prevention of COVID-19.