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. 2020 Oct;30(3):167-170.
doi: 10.1016/j.wjam.2020.07.008. Epub 2020 Jul 23.

Case of professor Xu ZOU's acupuncture technique for "benefiting kidney and strengthening anti-pathogenic qi" in promoting the absorption of COVID-19

Lan-Ting Tao  1 , Tao-Liang Huang  1 , Dan-Wen Zheng  1 , Xu Zou  1
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Case of professor Xu ZOU's acupuncture technique for "benefiting kidney and strengthening anti-pathogenic qi" in promoting the absorption of COVID-19

Lan-Ting Tao et al. World J Acupunct Moxibustion. 2020 Oct.

Abstract

A case of the absorption of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) promoted by professor Xu ZOU's acupuncture technique for "benefiting kidney and strengthening anti-pathogenic qi" is introduced. A female patient suffered from COVID-19, 64 years old, had been treated with acupuncture and Chinese herb granules for 10 days on the base of the oral administration of moxifloxacin. In the re-examination, the chest CT image indicated that the absorption of COVID-19 was obvious as compared with before, the nucleic acid test of novel corona virus was negative and the patient narrated no obvious discomfort. Acupuncture therapy plays its active adjuvant effect in the whole process of the treatment of COVID-19.

Keywords: Acupuncture; Benefiting kidney and strengthening anti-pathogenic qi; Chinese herbal granules; Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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Lung CT image when the patient was admitted.
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Lung CT image when the patient was discharge.
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