Epidemic Diseases and Chinese Medicine: Example of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and COVID‑19 Jean‑Claude Dubois
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《中医药文化》 (Chinese Medicine and Culture) Special Issue “The Experience in Treating COVID-19 with Traditional Chinese Medicine” Call For Papers Dear experts or scholars: Chinese Medicine and Culture (ISSN: 2589-9627) is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to publishing new and original research and their results both at home and abroad. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, traditional Chinese medicine has played an important role in the process of fighting the epidemic disease in China, and has shown remarkable clinical efficacy. In this process, we have accumulated significant medical experience. With the worldwide spread of COVID-19, traditional Chinese medicine has attracted considerable attention and received positive evaluation from the international community for its excellent performance in fighting COVID-19. Therefore,Chinese Medicine and Culture plans to publish a special issue “The Experience in Treating COVID-19 with Traditional Chinese Medicine”, which aims to timely summarize the research results of TCM in treating COVID-19, and provide reliable TCM diagnosis and treatment methods for the whole world. For this purpose, here is the call for papers and the following are the explanations of the requirements. 1. Scope of papers Potential topics include but are not limited to: (1) Study on the key and difficult points of traditional Chinese medicine in treating COVID-19 (2) The clinical experience and advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in treating COVID-19 (3) Based on the experience in treating COVID-19 in Wuhan, exploring the ancient classical prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine and study on its mechanism (4) Study on the antiviral pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine based on ancient traditional Chinese medicine classics (5) Study on the history of TCM in comprehending epidemic diseases and the diagnosis and treatment experience of doctors in past dynasties (6) Study on the academic history of the theoretical construction and development of TCM warm diseases (7) Study on the history of traditional Chinese medicine in treating epidemic diseases from an interdisciplinary perspective …… 2. Requirements for papers We cordially invite researchers and experts to contribute original research articles as well as reviews on the above topics! The text of original articles amounts 3000 to 6000 words. Submissions must include title, abstract (150-200 words), keywords (5-8 keywords), author(s). 3. Submission Website Manuscripts can be submitted through https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/cmac Your contributions will be much appreciated. Last but not least, you are expected to submit your papers 25th July 2020, I am looking forward to your reply. 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