{"id":1400484,"date":"2022-03-25T13:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400484"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:01:07","slug":"china-floods-hong-kong-with-traditional-chinese-medicine-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-floods-hong-kong-with-traditional-chinese-medicine-to-fight-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"China Floods Hong Kong with &#039;Traditional Chinese Medicine&#039; to Fight Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-floods-hong-kong-with-traditional-chinese-medicine-to-fight-coronavirus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400484&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Hong Kong\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1640651-20220324.htm\">announced<\/a>\u00a0Thursday it had asked China\u2019s ruling Communist Party to send \u201cexperts\u201d in \u201cTraditional Chinese Medicine\u201d (TCM) to Hong Kong in an effort to help treat certain symptoms of the Chinese coronavirus in elderly Hong Kong patients, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong CEO Carrie Lam told reporters at a press conference on March 24 she \u201chad asked the central government [of China] to send a delegation of Chinese medicine experts to Hong Kong\u201d to help combat the city\u2019s latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI strongly believe that another team of [traditional] Chinese medicine experts from the mainland will offer great support to our anti-epidemic work,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Lam said Hong Kong health officials were recording \u201cabout 200 deaths per day\u201d as part of the city\u2019s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak, adding the \u201chospitalisation rate among the elderly is still high.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12541422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-1196130115.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical staff wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city arrive with a patient at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan (HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tony Ko, the chief executive of Hong Kong Hospital Authority, echoed Lam\u2019s remarks Thursday. He told reporters on March 24 experience in China allegedly demonstrated \u201c[traditional] Chinese medicine could effectively relieve symptoms such as coughing, constipation and fatigue in Covid [Chinese coronavirus] patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s state-run <em>Global Times<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1256705.shtml\">quoted<\/a> Ko on Thursday as saying TCM could \u201chelp the elderly with coughs, constipation, poor appetite, cold and fatigue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TCM is a wide-ranging practice dating back to 2,500 B.C. that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/traditional-Chinese-medicine\">aims<\/a> to promote good health in an individual. Treatments of TCM may involve herbal supplements, specific movements, or acupuncture. China\u2019s ruling Communist Party has successfully co-opted the ancient practice of TCM in recent years by promoting it as a state-sponsored cure-all. The Chinese government\u2019s official backing of TCM has helped the methodology grow into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-world-health-organization-gives-the-nod-to-traditional-chinese-medicine-bad-idea\/\">$50 billion industry<\/a>. Beijing has most recently attempted to peddle TCM treatments to Chinese coronavirus patients, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/18\/china-lists-acupuncture-as-recommended-coronavirus-treatment\/\">claiming<\/a> TCM techniques such as acupuncture may help alleviate certain symptoms of the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not list <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/survivors\/patients\/complementary-alternative-medicine.htm\">acupuncture<\/a> or any other TCM techniques among its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/survivors\/patients\/complementary-alternative-medicine.htm\">approved<\/a> treatments for the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million, has recorded about one million Chinese coronavirus cases since its most recent epidemic of the disease began in late December 2021. The city has documented approximately 4,600 deaths in connection with the outbreak over the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s high death rate due to the Chinese coronavirus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/17\/report-coronavirus-leads-to-coffin-shortage-in-hong-kong\/\">caused<\/a> a shortage of coffins in the city last week. Agence France-Presse (AFP)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hongkongfp.com\/2022\/03\/17\/morgues-overflowing-as-hong-kong-suffers-deadly-covid-wave\/\">quoted<\/a> an unnamed Hong Kong funeral industry representative as saying just 300 coffins remained in Hong Kong on March 17. The person added that the city\u2019s remaining coffin supply was \u201cexpected to be gone by the weekend.\u201d Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam confirmed the coffin shortage in statements to local media on March 16. She said at the time her government was expecting Hong Kong to receive two shipments of coffins from China to restock the city\u2019s supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s government announced\u00a0Thursday it had asked China\u2019s ruling Communist Party to send \u201cexperts\u201d in \u201cTraditional Chinese Medicine\u201d (TCM) to Hong Kong in an effort to help treat certain symptoms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}