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World|health|February 17, 2020 / 12:15 PM
Chinese scientists using 2,000-year-old traditional remedies on patients suffering with coronavirus

AKIPRESS.COM - Chinese health officials are resorting to testing ancient traditional remedies on patients suffering from the deadly coronavirus, Daily Mail reports.

Doctors in the epicentre of the disease outbreak in Wuhan have been using Traditional Chinese Medicine combined with Western medication to try and stem the rate of people being struck down with the new illness.

Currently scientists around the world are working to develop a vaccination for the virus, recently named COVID-19, that has already killed more than 1,600.

Latest figures from Beijing today showed 68,500 cases of the illness in China and 1,665 deaths, mostly in Hubei province.

China has more than 80 running or pending clinical trials on potential treatments for coronavirus.

Two clinical trials are testing whether HIV and Ebola drugs are effective at treating the symptoms.

New pharmaceutical drugs are being listed alongside traditional therapies that are thousands of years old in a public registry of China's clinical trials.

One of the traditional remedies being assessed is shuanghuanglian - a Chinese herbal medicine containing extracts from Lian Qiao.

The dried fruit is said to have been used to treat infections more than 2,000 years ago.

Around 400 people are taking part in the trial into shuanghuanglian.

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