Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Maegan Hodge | How Chinese Medicine Quickly Tackled Long COVID

11 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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Maegan Hodge (speaking in a YouTube video) explains that when COVID first appeared in China, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners rapidly developed herbal formulas grounded in historical records of virus presentations and reported clinical benefit. She frames these formulas as relatively low-risk, low-harm options that may be reasonable to try for patients with persistent (long COVID) symptoms when other treatments have failed.

What's cool about Chinese medicine is that within a month of that hitting the ground in China, the TCM providers had formulas, herbal formulas, that were working well for patients because there's a written record of viruses presented in a very typical way. So if the treatment or the cure is going to be low harm and low risk, if you are somebody who has no other answers, why not try it? You know, if nothing else is working for you.