【Good Morning Health / Dr. Ke Bowen, Ma Kuang Traditional Chinese Medicine Qiaotou Hospital】According to the statistics of the CDC on 112/1/28, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Taiwan has reached 9.4 million, and more than 40% of Taiwan’s population has been infected. After ordinary people are infected with the new coronavirus, most of them can be relieved in the acute phase of four weeks after treatment, and fully recovered within three months. According to the definition of WHO, if after three months of being infected with the COVID-19 virus, there are still symptoms of discomfort that last for more than two months and cannot be explained by other diagnoses, this is the sequelae of the new crown.
Are the 9 major symptoms of COVID-19 sequelae, cough, headache, and sore throat also related to the new crown?
According to the announcement of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, there are nine major symptoms of the new crown:
Fatigue, multisystem inflammatory syndrome muscle and joint pain.Anxiety, depression, insomnia, brain fog (difficulty in concentration/cognitive dysfunction), hair loss, rash, ulcers, palpitations, chest pain, myocarditis, new or worsening venous thrombosis, diabetes mellitus, subacute thyroiditis, abnormal bone metabolism, Mood changes, menstrual cycle changes Difficulty breathing Pulmonary fibrosis Ground glass lung X-ray Acute kidney injury
These long-term new crown symptoms can be said to cover multiple organ systems and various parts of the body and mind. The main symptoms of the acute stage of infection with Omicron virus strains, such as: fever, cough, sore throat, headache, tiredness, sneezing and runny nose… etc., these symptoms are mainly upper respiratory tract infection. Relatively, the symptoms of the new crown are easily overlooked and are related to the infection of the new crown pneumonia, resulting in many patients with sequelae of the new crown not actively seeking medical treatment.
In the outpatient clinic, we often see many patients with new crowns who feel that they have recovered without symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection. However, after the acute upper respiratory symptoms were alleviated, some patients developed symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, chronic cough, asthma, muscle and bone pain, fatigue, and inattention. It is recommended that patients with new crowns should actively receive treatment from the period of quarantine. Even after the initial acute stage, the symptoms are relieved, so don’t ignore the subsequent symptoms of physical and mental discomfort. If the sequelae caused by COVID-19 are not properly treated, they may even last for one or two years.
Among the many sequelae of the new crown, diseases related to psychological factors such as emotion or cognition are particularly easy to be ignored. Emotions such as anxiety and tension can cause many physical and mental illnesses and even affect immunity. Therefore, learning to relax your emotions can help alleviate the sequelae of COVID-19 related to anxiety, depression, and tension.
What should I do if I suffer from insomnia, anxiety, and gastrointestinal discomfort?Traditional Chinese medicine acupoint massage and herbal tea help improve long crown
People’s body and mind influence each other. Tension can easily cause muscle tension, while relaxing muscles can relieve tension. So it’s like breathing relaxation: focusing on the breathing process and relaxing the muscles can relax the emotions. Others, such as Tai Chi, Baduanjin and other body stretching or meditation, mindfulness exercises, yoga, etc., as long as you find a method that suits you and practice it until you are proficient, it can have a good effect on relaxing your body and mind.
We can also use acupoint massage or herbal tea to help the body function normally.
Acupoint massage relieves stomach discomfort
Take the gastrointestinal discomfort caused by anxiety as an example. In addition to practicing relaxation to relieve anxiety, you can practice the following methods to relieve gastrointestinal discomfort:
Fold your hands together, with the palms facing you, massage the entire abdomen clockwise with your fingertips and palms, repeat several times. Press or massage: Zhongwan, Guanyuan, Neiguan, Shenmen, Zusanli, Gongsun and other acupoints.
Chinese herbal tea relieves new crown
In addition, you can use “tea substitute drink”, just like making herbal tea, choose the appropriate medicinal materials for brewing. Usually, the combination of these medicinal materials is simple, convenient for brewing or decocting for a short time, and can be drunk as tea to achieve the effect of treatment and health care. It is recommended to use after evaluation by a Chinese physician.
Flavored Sanxian Drink
Efficacy: Can be used to help relieve abdominal distension and aid digestion.Ingredients: Hawthorn 3 qian, Jiaoshenqu 3 qian, Guya 3 qian, Poria cocos 3 qian, green skin 2 qian
Jujube Kernel and Light Heart Substitute Tea Drink
Efficacy: It can soothe the nerves and relieve troubles to sleep.Materials: fried jujube kernels 6 qian, rushes 1 qian
Both of the above two tea drinks can use 800CC of water to complete the brewing by soaking or boiling.
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