Could vitamin C improve the therapeutic effect of integrated medicine for COVID-19? | ||
| Microbes and Infectious Diseases | ||
| Article 2, Volume 3, Issue 3, August 2022, Pages 514-515 PDF (132.42 K) | ||
| Document Type: Letter to the Editor | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mid.2022.142658.1321 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Siukan Law* 1; Dawn Chingtung Au1; Albert Wingnang Leung2; Chuanshan Xu3 | ||
| 1Faculty of Science and Technology, The Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Tsing Yi, New Territories, Hong Kong | ||
| 2School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong | ||
| 3Key Laboratory of Molecular Target and Clinical Pharmacology, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 511436, China | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Combined the therapy of Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and a high dose of vitamin C resulted in the most effective outcome for flight against COVID-19. It’s shortening the time of disease recovery, symptom disappearance, chest CT improvement, and tongue amelioration. Traditional Chinese medicine such as Bai-Nu decoction, and Buzhong Yiqi decoction possessed anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant properties, which improved the properties of western medicines added by increasing the white blood cell count and lymphocyte count supplement with vitamin C for combating COVID-19. The western medicines that are commonly used include (i) alpha-interferon (5 million U or equivalent dose each time for adults and twice daily), (ii) lopinavir/ritonavir (200 mg/50 mg per pill for adults, two pills each time and twice daily), ribavirin (jointly with interferon or lopinavir/ritonavir, 500 mg each time for adults, and twice or three times of intravenous injection daily), chloroquine phosphate (500 mg for 7 days, adults aged 18-65 with body weight over 50 kg), and arbidol (200 mg for adults, and no longer than 10 days). (To be continued)... | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Vitamin C; Integrated Medicine; COVID-19 | ||
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