Prognosis
China Tries to Win Global Acceptance for Traditional Covid Cures
- Friendly governments allowing sale of TCM, conducting trials
- Chinese mixtures are part of Xi’s effort to compete with West
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As Hong Kong’s outbreak became the deadliest in the world, among the aid Beijing sent to the financial hub were 1 million packets of honeysuckle, rhubarb root, sweet wormwood herb and other natural ingredients, all mixed according to principles of traditional Chinese medicine.
Practitioners of the centuries-old medicinal system argue such herbal combinations can be just as effective as antiviral pills like Pfizer Inc.’s Paxlovid.