國務院新聞辦公室于3月6日(星期五)下午4時在湖北武漢舉行新冠肺炎疫情防控救治進展情況新聞發布會。中央指導組成員、國家衛生健康委黨組成員、中醫藥局黨組書記余艷紅出席發布會并答記者問。

　　美國有線電視新聞CNN記者：我們注意到，中國政府發布的診療方案也好、官方聲明也好，甚至是官方媒體的報道都大力強調了中醫藥的作用，包括多種中醫藥的明顯療效，甚至有通過純中醫治療出院的病例。與此同時，世界衛生組織的專家上周在北京的新聞發布會上尤其提到，目前為止，唯一一種被證明可能對抗病毒有效的是一款西藥，來自美國的瑞德西韋。我的問題就是，中方在有關中醫藥方面的立場和觀點，是否和世衛組織矛盾?中方的科學根據在哪里?有關通過中醫治療而好轉或者出院的病例會不會是一種自愈的結果呢?謝謝。

　　余艷紅：非常感謝您對中醫藥在這次疫情防控中作用發揮的關心。中國診療方案是中醫和西醫共同并肩戰“疫”、共同智慧的結晶。在治療方案中，中醫有比較重要的地位，這是堅持中西醫并重的中國衛生健康工作方針，也是中醫藥的療效決定的。您的問題關注在療效上，我從三個方面談一談。

　　首先，中醫藥防治瘟疫有著獨特的理論和實踐。鑒于早期防治新冠肺炎沒有特效藥和疫苗，運用中醫藥防治瘟疫的實踐經驗和技術方法，發揮中醫藥整體調節、提高免疫的作用，激發自身的抗病能力和康復能力，是一種有效的治療方法。在近年的抗擊SARS、甲流中，都已經證明了中醫藥的作用。正如中醫常講的，“正氣存內，邪不可干”。

　　第二，大量病人治愈出院的事實充分證明，中西醫結合效果顯著。目前5萬余名確診患者出院了，大多數患者使用了中醫藥。專家團隊研究證實，中西醫結合與單純使用中藥和西藥相比，能較快地改善發熱、咳嗽、乏力等癥狀，縮短住院天數，提高核酸轉陰率，有效減少輕型和普通型向重型、重型向危重型的發展，提高治愈率、減少病亡率。

　　我舉幾個例子，比如，輕型和普通型患者，一項452例患者的隨機對照開放性試驗顯示，中西醫結合在改善癥狀、提高核酸轉陰率方面，顯著優于單純的西藥組。另一項500例的臨床隊列研究顯示，肺部CT影像明顯改善，沒有輕型轉為重型。重癥患者，一項75例的臨床對照試驗顯示，中西藥并用較單純西藥組相比，核酸轉陰時間、住院時間平均縮短3天。危重癥患者，中醫和西醫專家的聯合會診、辨證論治后，中藥在改善血氧飽和度、抑制炎癥風暴等方面有積極的作用。國家衛生健康委和國家中醫藥局成立了12個重癥專家指導組，這就是中醫和西醫聯合指導救治，深入推進中西醫結合，提高治愈率、降低病亡率。

　　第三，您剛才講到了，你們關注到了單純使用中藥治療的病例。確實有，我們初步地總結了已經出院的近百例中醫藥治療的病人，其中有不少病人都是重癥，他們都是運用中藥為主的治療。

　　有關病例的研究和總結，我們正在進行中。

　　在這次疫情防控中，習近平總書記一直強調，要堅持中西醫并重、中西醫結合、中西藥并用，我們愿意分享治療新冠肺炎的“中國經驗”、“中國方案”，讓更多國家了解中醫藥、理解中醫藥，使用中醫藥。在我們中國，疫情發生的時候，我們有中醫藥，一用上中醫藥，老百姓癥狀就很快緩解，更多地增強了戰勝疾病的信心和勇氣。謝謝您的提問。

　　湖北衛視記者：能不能給我們普通老百姓解釋一下，中醫藥是如何治療新冠肺炎的?它有什么樣的特色優勢?謝謝。

　　余艷紅：這是一個很好的問題。我在前面回答記者的問題時，已經介紹過中醫和西醫不同。中醫藥防治傳染病，注重增強人體自身的抵抗力和修復能力，注重維護整體平衡，這使得中醫藥在應對那些病因不明確、缺乏疫苗和特效藥物的傳染病時，有自己的用武之地，提供了不一樣的防治策略。

　　中醫藥在疫情爆發時，通過癥狀收集和臨床分析，即可確定中醫治療方案，迅速用于臨床救治，具有快速反應、迅速應對等優勢。在這一次新冠肺炎疫情中，中醫藥的及早使用、快速改善癥狀，增強了患者戰勝疾病的信心和勇氣。

　　這次疫情發生后，中醫專家從古代經典名方中汲取精華，結合臨床診療的經驗，迅速提出了中醫方案，并且在臨床中不斷優化。根據方案，我們堅持早期使用，全程參與，精準施策，中醫藥深度介入預防、治療、康復的全過程。

　　對于輕型和普通型患者，我們第一時間使用中藥，對于重型和危重型患者，中醫和西醫專家聯合會診，中西藥并用，發揮兩種醫學的疊加效應。對于恢復期人群，中藥和針灸、按摩等方法并用，促進患者康復。

　　實踐證明，中醫藥治療新冠肺炎效果是很明確的。在國家最新頒布的第七版診療方案中，中醫治療的內容很豐富，既有通用方，也有針對不同病情、不同證型的方劑，還有中成藥，體現了辨證與辨病的統一，理論與臨床實踐的統一，指導和規范的統一，是傳承精華、守正創新的生動實踐。我們很愿意讓更多的老百姓了解中醫藥的方法，也很愿意和國際社會分享中醫藥的治療經驗。謝謝。
 

Yu Yanhong Introducing TCM’s Participation in the Epidemic Prevention,Control and Treatment in a Press Conference Held by the State Council Information Office

　　The State Council Information Office held a press conference in Wuhan, Hubei at 4:00pm on Friday, March 6th, introducing the progress in prevention, control and treatment of COVID-19. Yu Yanhong, member of the central steering group,member of the Leading Party Members' Group of National Health Commission, Secretary of the LeadingPartyMembers'Group of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicineattended the conference and answered questions from reporters.

　　Reporter with CNN: We noticed that the national diagnosis and treatment protocol，the official statements released by Chinese government and even the official media reports have strongly emphasized the efficacy of TCM in treating COVID-19, including the obvious curative effects of various TCM drugs, and even there are cases cured merely through TCM treatment. At the same time, experts from the World Health Organization mentioned in a press conference in Beijing last week that, there is only one drug right now that we think may have real effecacy, and that is Remdesivir from US. My questions are: Does China's position and views on TCM are contradictable tothose of WHO? What is the scientific basis of the Chinese side? Are the cases improved or discharged through TCM treatment the results of self-healing? Thank you.

　　Yu Yanhong: Thank you very much for your interest in the role TCM played in the prevention and control of the epidemic.The national diagnosis and treatment protocol is the joint effortof the wisdom of TCM and western medicine fighting the "epidemic", in which, TCM has a relatively important position. This is determined by sticking to the health workprinciple of attaching equal importance of TCM and western medicine, and the efficacy of TCM in treating COVID-19. Your question is most concerned aboutthe efficacy. I’ll elaborate it from three aspects.

　　First of all, TCM has unique theories and practice for containing plagues. In view of the fact that there werenotherapeutics and vaccines at the early stage of prevention and treatment of COVID-19, the practical experience and technical methods of TCM used to give full play to the overall regulation and improvement of immunity of human body, to stimulate itsimmune systemand recovery ability. It proved to be effective. In recent years, the efficacy of TCM has been proven in the fight against SARS and H1N1. As a famous TCM saying goes: “pathogenic factors are not able to work if healthy qi is sufficient in human body”.

　　Second, the fact that a large number of patients have been cured and discharged from hospital fully proves that the efficacy of integrated TCM and western medicine treatment is remarkable. At present, more than 50,000 confirmed patients have been discharged, and most of themused TCM. Expert teams’ research confirmed that compared with the exclusive medication ofTCM or western medicine, integrated TCM and western medicine treatment can improve symptoms such as fever, cough, fatigue more quickly, shorten the length of hospitalization, increase the rate of nucleic acidtestsconversing negative, and effectively reduce the progression of mild and moderate cases turning into severe ones, and severe cases turning into critical ones, thus increasing recovery rate and reduce mortality rate.

　　Let me givea few examples. For instance, for mild and moderate patients, a randomized controlled open trial of 452 patients shows that integrated TCM and western medicine treatment group is significantly better than exclusivewestern medicine treatment group in improving symptoms and increasing the rate of nucleic acid tests conversing negative. Another of clinical cohort study of 500 patients shows significant improvement in CT images of lungs, with no mild patients turning into severe ones. For severe patients, a clinical controlled trial of 75 patients shows that integrated TCM and western medicine treatment group, compared with exclusivewestern medicine treatment group, shortened nucleic acid tests conversing negative and hospitalization time by an average of 3 days. For critical patients, after joint consultation and syndrome differentiation of TCM and western medicine experts, their blood oxygen saturation improved and cytokine storms suppressed，showing that TCM played a positive role in treatment. National Health Commission and National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine have mobilized 12 steering groups consisting of expects dealing with severe cases to guild integrated TCM and western medicine treatment and promote in-depth integration, so to improve recovery rate and reduce mortality rate

　　Third, you mentioned just now that you noticed cases merely treated with TCM. Indeed, we have preliminarily summarized the treatment methods of nearly a hundred recovered patients, many of whom were severe patents. They wereall treated mainly with TCM.

　　We are still working on the case study and summaryright now.

　　In this epidemic prevention and control, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always emphasized that we must adhere to the principle of attaching equal importance of TCM and western medicine, integrating TCM treatment with western medicine treatment, and combining themedication of TCM and western medicine. We are willing to share the "Chinese experience" and "Chinese protocol" for the treatment of COVID-19 with other countries, so that more countries can get to know TCM, understand TCM and useit in treatment. In China, when the epidemic breaks out, we haveTCM treatment. As soon as TCM treatment is used, patents’ symptoms are immediately relieved, which further strengthens their confidence and courage to overcome the disease. Thank you for your question.

　　Reporter with Hubei TV:Could you explain to the public how to use TCM to treat COVID-19? What are the characteristics and advantages of TCM? Thank you.

　　Yu Yanhong:Good question. I have mentioned that TCM is different from western medicine when answering the last question. Using TCM to prevent and treat a communicable disease, doctors pay more attention to the immune system and the recovery ability of the body itself, to the holistic balance. This is why TCM could play the role in face of the communicable diseases with no identified pathology, no vaccine and no therapeutics, and provide a different prevention and treatment method.

　　When an epidemic breaks out, after symptoms collecting and clinical analysis, a TCM treatment could be identified and used in the clinical treatment. It is the advantage of TCM to give fast response. In the prevention and control of COVID-19, the early use of TCM helps to improve the symptoms quickly, hence strengthening the confidence and courage of the patients.

　　After the outbreak of COVID-19, the TCM experts, combining the selected classic formulas and the clinical experience, put forward quickly a TCM treatment protocol and optimized it continually. With the protocol, we adhere to the early use of TCM, its full-course intervention and precise implementation. TCM has played its role in the full course of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.

　　For the mild and moderate cases, we use TCM as soon as possible. For the severe and critical cases, we exert a duplicate effect of both TCM and western medicine by joint consultation of TCM and western doctors and joint medication of TCM and western medicine. For the convalescent, we use TCM medication, acupuncture and moxibustion, massage, etc. to help with their recovery.

　　It is proven that the effectiveness of TCM to COVID-19 is clear. In the updated the National Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol of COVID-19 (Trial Version 7 ), a plenty of TCM methods are included, such as general formulas, formulas to different types of cases and different syndromes, and TCM drugs. It is a vivid practice of inheriting the essence and innovating while keeping the legacy, showing the unity of syndrome differentiation and disease identification, the unity of theory and clinical practice, the unity of guidance and standards. We are very willing to tell more about the TCM methods to the public, to share the treating experience in TCM with the international community. Thank you.

Translated by Zhao Hong，Xu Jing，Wu Sufang