NEWS doi: 10.12032/TMR20200204158 Traditional Chinese medicine for novel coronavirus pneumonia treatment: main force or supplement? Mi Li1, Xue Yang2, Kai Li1*, Yi-Qiang Xie1* 1School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 571199, China. 2Department of Medical Oncology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China. *Corresponding to: Kai Li, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hainan Medical University, No.3 Xueyuan Road, Longhua District, Haikou 571199, China. E-mail:
[email protected]. Yi-Qiang Xie, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hainan Medical University, No.3 Xueyuan Road, Longhua District, Haikou 571199, China. E-mail:
[email protected]. Chinese and English contrastive vocabulary: Huang Di Nei Jing: Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor; Shanghan Zabing Lun: Treatise on Cold Damage Diseases; Zhou Hou Bei Ji Fang: Handy Therapies for Emergencies; Dou Ke Jin Jing Fu Ji Jie: Smallpox Treatments Collection. The nationwide death toll from the coronavirus plan (trial version 4th) for novel coronavirus outbreak in China has risen to 491, with nearly pneumonia on January 27, 2020, providing specific 24,363 individuals infected, according to official recommendations for the treatment and prevention of figures released on February 5, 2020 [1]. With no the infection using TCM. Academician Zhang Boli, proven drugs to treat the infection caused by the the President of the Tianjin University of Traditional deadly coronavirus, China’s top health organization Chinese Medicine, stated the following in an has advised hospitals to use various treatments, interview with Xinhua News Agency: “Chinese including traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and medicine plays an all-round role throughout the artificial lungs, to tackle it [2].