Government Utilizes Traditional Medicine to Treat COVID-19 Patients

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By Natthaphon  Sangpolsit

    

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Public Health is integrating the practice of traditional Thai medicine to help treat COVID-19 patients, with herbs such as green chiretta now promoted as an effective symptom reliever.

 

The Ministry of Public Health recently launched a campaign to introduce traditional Thai medicine into COVID-19 treatments, allocating some 246 million baht to the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine (DTAM) to supply symptom-relieving herbal products.

 

DTAM Director-General Yongyot Thammavudhi said green chiretta can be used as an effective symptom reliever for Omicron patients. With the help of traditional medicine clinics across the country and the rapid response teams serving the Greater Bangkok area, the department now aims to provide patients with green chiretta, Triphala and herbal inhaler products.

 

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[alyx]

26 minutes ago, webfact said:

now promoted as an effective symptom reliever.

Title is kind of misleading. Treating a disease and relieving some symptoms are quite two different things. 

This being said, if these herbs help...

[Geoffggi]

1 hour ago, alyx said:

Title is kind of misleading. Treating a disease and relieving some symptoms are quite two different things. 

This being said, if these herbs help...

Providing they are not compulsory I agree 

[ezzra]

How the saying goes? if it wouldn't help, it wouldn't do harm either, but if herbal or Chinese medicine would have helped, don't you think that China would be all over it by now?...

[mtls2005]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

green chiretta

Thailand inmates are taking green chiretta to fight mild COVID – here’s what we know about this herbal drug

 

Since then, several reviews have found that chiretta may be more effective than placebo at treating uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infections. Reported side-effects tend to be mild and short-lived.

 

https://theconversation.com/thailand-inmates-are-taking-green-chiretta-to-fight-mild-covid-heres-what-we-know-about-this-herbal-drug-169683

 

 

Conclusion: Current evidence suggests that A. paniculata extract alone or in combination with A. senticosus extract may be more effective than placebo and may be an appropriate alternative treatment of uncomplicated acute upper respiratory tract infection.

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14748896/

 

 

 

[lujanit]

246 million baht up for grabs (only hi-so's and generals  need apply).

[Gottfrid]

Of course is effective. it takes away the problem on all people with no symptoms.

[bangon04]

16 hours ago, ezzra said:

How the saying goes? if it wouldn't help, it wouldn't do harm either, but if herbal or Chinese medicine would have helped, don't you think that China would be all over it by now?...

are you really expecting any true stats or information about the Chinese "final solution" to the virus?