An Overview on the Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment Guidelines for Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

Ryu, Han-sung; Oh, Hye-kyung; Lee, Jee-young; Yoon, Seong-woo

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Article

The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine 2015;36(3): 335-347.

중증급성호흡기증후군(SARS) 및 중동호흡기증후군(MERS)의 중의 진료지침에 대한 고찰

류한성, 오혜경, 이지영, 윤성우

강동경희대학교 한방병원 한방내과

An Overview on the Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment Guidelines for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

Han-sung Ryu, Hye-kyung Oh, Jee-young Lee, Seong-woo Yoon

Dept. of Internal Medicine, Korean Medicine Cancer Center, Kyung-Hee University Hospital at Gangdong

Correspondence

Seong-woo Yoon ,Tel: 02-440-7279, Fax: 02-440-7287, Email: stepano212@hanmail.net

Received: August 27, 2015, Accepted: September 25, 2015, Published online: September 30, 2015.

ABSTRACT

Objectives:
This study aims to overview traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment guidelines for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in order to facilitate the use of Korean medicine (KM) treatment in pandemic diseases.

Methods:
We compared the characteristics between SARS and MERS, and overviewed the Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment guidelines for SARS and MERS. We assessed the efficacy of simultaneous administration of herbal medicine and Western medicine on SARS by studying Cochranes 2012's Systematic Review Studies.

Results and Conclusions:
Based on wen bing (warm diseases) of KM as well as TCM, KM treatment can be an alternative for pandemic diseases such as SARS and MERS considering the Korean's characteristic environment.

Key words: Middle East respiratory syndrome, severe acute respiratory syndrome, traditional Chinese medicine