LongCOVIDCareCenter Summarizes Ways To Relieve Long COVID Brain Fog From a TCM Perspective

HONG KONG - Oct. 18, 2022 - PRLog -- Numerous studies have confirmed that novel coronavirus infection in humans produced long-lasting side effects even after the symptoms of the initial infection disappeared completely, which we call long-term COVID-19 symptoms. These effects of post COVID remnants mainly were the appearance of brain fog, fatigue, shortness of breath, chronic pain, loss of smell.

LongCOVIDCareCenter studied the long-term COVID-19 symptoms, finding that that there was a large proportion of patients with the symptoms belonging to the category of brain fog.They summarized the clinical manifestation of long-term COVID-19 syndromes of brain fog, analyzed the pathogenesis of brain fog caused by long COVID.

Then, combined with the pathogenesis, they gave the relieve ideas of western medicine for the disease after infection with COVID-19. Due to the limitation of western medicine treatment against long-term COVID-19 symptoms of brain fog, they also recommended some traditional Chinese medicine, including Chinese medicine formula and acupuncture treatment, to relieve the symptoms of brain fog.

Finally, they made advises patients with long COVID brain fog on exercise, diet, and sleep.

What are The Clinical Manifestations of Long COVID Brain Fog?

According to the published medical papers on the symptoms of long-term COVID brain fog, LongCOVIDCareCenter (http://postcovidbrainfog.org) concluded clinical manifestations of brain fog as follows:

Neurasthenia, Memory loss, Attention disorder, Get lost, Language disorders, Dizziness, Brain fatigue, loss of smell, blurry vision, tinnitus, chronic headache

How to Relieve Long COVID Brain Fog From Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Perspective?

From the theory of syndrome differentiation and treatment of TCM, the treatment of long COVID brain fog can obtain more accurate TCM syndrome differentiation and more suitable TCM formulas from the following three steps.

Perform the observation, smelling, hearing, and inquiring of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis, and consult the comprehensive physical examination report and four special examination reports of western medicine. Only in this way can TCM doctors obtain the most detailed disease information of patients to support them to make the most accurate syndrome differentiation and treatment of patients' conditions.