Recovery of a patient with severe COVID-19 by acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine adjuvant to standard care.

There is currently no drug or therapy that can cure the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is highly contagious and can be life-threatening in severe cases. Therefore, seeking potential effective therapies is an urgent task. An older female at the Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan, China, with a severe case of COVID-19 with significant shortness of breath and decrease in peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO), was treated using manual acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine granule formula Fuzheng Rescue Lung with Xuebijing Injection in addition to standard care.

[Coagulative and fibrinolytic changes in patients with essential hypertension and the effect of sustained-release nifedipine].

Objective: To investigate the changes of coagulation and fibrinolysis status in patients with essential hypertension (EH) and observe the therapeutic effect of sustained-release nifedipine.

Methods: Ninety-nine EH patients were divided according to their diastolic blood pressure (DBP) into mild group (48 cases), moderate group (29 cases) and severe group (22 cases), and 25 patients among the groups were chosen at random to receive sustained-release nifedipine for 2 weeks. Twenty healthy subjects served as control group.