Chinese Test Traditional Remedies on SARS Patients

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Chinese Test Traditional Remedies on SARS Patients

Traditional Chinese medicine, featuring herbs, minerals and other natural ingredients, has proven useful in the treatment of SARS patients, especially when coupled with Western therapy.

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Traditional Chinese medicine, featuring herbs, minerals and other natural ingredients, has proven useful in the treatment of SARS patients, especially when coupled with Western therapy.

So far, more than half of SARS patients in Beijing have been treated with a combined Chinese-Western therapy. Statistics show these patients had a fever for an average of two days less than those who were treated only with Western medicine, according to the city's health authorities.

Local experts found that traditional therapies could help accelerate the absorption of inflammation by the human body.

A group of local experts have recommended eight kinds of ready-made traditional drugs for the treatment of the disease.

Professor Cheng Yung-Chi, with the Yale University School of Medicine, agreed that traditional Chinese medicine could be effective in easing the symptoms of SARS, or even could help improve the human body's immunity, but he still doubted whether traditional drugs could be used to resist the virus.

Cheng urged local experts to be careful and continue their tests.

The professor is also experimenting with a 1,800-year old prescription of herbal medicine, in hopes that it could help reduce the side effects of chemical treatment on cancer patients.

Lai Xiaoping, director of the R&D center of the Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, expressed his hopes that the SARS outbreak would be a good opportunity for the traditional medicine to enter the international market.

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