NBC news: For some long Covid patients, acupuncture and other Eastern remedies bring relief that Western medicines have not
Following table shows the clinics we recommend so far. The reason they are recommend are shown in the memo column.
Please just mention your symptoms when contacting them, don’t say you get long COVID.(FDA doesn’t allow TCM dr to say they can cure COVID)
ClinicName
Address
City
State
Country
Phone
Website, Blog or Social Media Link
Memo
Peilin Sun
Lavendelstraat 26
Gent
Belgium
09 236 60 30
www.acupunctuur-sun.be/
He has written a book titles "The Pathogenesis and Treatment of Covid-19 and Long Covid with Traditional Chinese Medicine"
Manu Saxena
Seattle
Califonia
USA
agape-acupuncture.com/
A friend gives some successful cases
Rose Honor
FL
USA
813-756-2156
Healing Enerchi
From react19.org
Susan Davis
MD
USA
301-275-0165
From react19.org
Heather Sansone
TX
USA
808-384-4577
Shendao Acupuncture
From react19.org
Daisy Lear
CO
USA
303.587.3557
Daisy Lear Acupuncture
From react19.org
Huimin Liu
CA
USA
805-667-2237
Herbs4cures
From react19.org
Robert Murdoch
FL
USA
239-540-1220
Natural FamilyPhysicians
From react19.org
Hilde Elder
MD
USA
443-805-1314
The Bodhi Room MD
From react19.org
Lisa Wong
FL
USA
4083372887
From react19.org
Stephanie Dwyer
TX
USA
Si Shou Acupuncture and Wellness
From react19.org
Joao Alvarez
MD
USA
301-605-3166
Element Wellness
From react19.org
Matt Dorsey
TX
USA
470-333-8880
The East-West Alchemist
From react19.org
Nam Bac Hang
241 W Cermak Rd
Chicago
IL
USA
312-225-0024
A doctor there has written believable posts on treating long COVID patients
Note: we provide free Chinese medicine service(free consultation and free medicine) for 10 patients who doesn’t get improvement from clinics we recommend. In order to get this service, you need to register before you start treatment in any clinic mentioned in the list. For more details, please visit this page .
The meridian Qi measurement device
You may have seen many herb doctors saying they can cure long COVID, but we can provide proof to show that Qi and meridian do exists, and Chinese medicine theory is superior.
Traditional Chinese Medicine research papers
The following are links to published papers which appear in the library of nih.gov in the past six months. They are mainly prepared for those who insist on using evidence-based medicine as the only basis for judgment. It should be noted that we do not think that RCT should be used to judge the effect of traditional Chinese medicine, nor do we agree with most of the following papers if they use RCT as a criteria. If a patient contact a Chinese medicine doctor for help, chances are the doctor will not use any of the treatment plans (or medicines) in the following articles—this is because the medicines prescribed by Chinese medicine doctors are like clothes tailor-made for each person (except in rare cases, one medicine for all persons violates the basic principles of traditional Chinese medicine).
Acupoint stimulation for long COVID: A promising intervention:
Traditional Chinese medicine combined with Moxibustion in the treatment of “long-COVID”: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
Advances in the application of traditional Chinese medicine during the COVID-19 recovery period: A review
Treatment of Peripheral Facial Paralysis After COVID-19 Infection With Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapies: A Case Report
Chinese herbal medicine for post-viral fatigue: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
The impact of “long COVID” on menstruation in Chinese female college students and the intervention of acupuncture
Efficacy and safety of acupuncture treatment for fatigue after COVID-19 infection: study protocol for a pilot randomized sham-controlled trial
Therapeutic potential and possible mechanisms of ginseng for depression associated with COVID-19
“The History of Chinese Medicine Really Is Very Detailed Regarding Pandemics”: A Qualitative Analysis of Evidence-Based Practice and the Use of Chinese Herbal Medicine by Licensed Acupuncturists During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Note: the last paper is interesting since it describes many aspect of Chinese medicine when dealing with long COVID/COVID-19:
In EAM patients are diagnosed within the context of EAM theory, which then leads to the determination of a treatment principle and the selection of approaches, which can include acupuncture, CHM, moxibustion, cupping, and various other modalities. Patient treatment is individualized, and there is an emphasis on basing treatment upon the patient’s presenting objective and subjective signs and symptoms. This is often referred to as “treat what you see.” Tongue and pulse analysis are important objective diagnostic techniques. CHM prescriptions (called formulas) are specific to individual patients and typically consist of 10–15 different constituents selected from the CHM pharmacopeia that contains over 500 different constituents. Practitioners usually start with a commonly used formula and then modify for individual patients by adding and/or removing specific constituents. This is termed formula modification. ….. Despite a growing evidence base to support the use of acupuncture35,36 and efforts by the National Institutes of Health who funded research programs within complementary and integrative health institutions aimed at increasing research literacy, there are still significant cultural barriers to embracing the use of evidence to inform clinical practice.33,34,37 Some of this relates to the barriers and limitations in applying evidence-based medicine to EAM38–42 due to the significantly different paradigms of biomedicine and EAM.40,41 EAM uses a whole person health43–45 approach in which illness is assessed in relation to an assessment of the whole physical, mental, and spiritual health of an individual. This contrasts with the more reductionist approach of biomedicine and science. Applying scientific models used for clinical research to assess the efficacy and effectiveness of EAM is problematic41 because these studies usually don’t use EAM diagnostic approaches or tailor treatments to individual participants. Such issues weaken the external validity of the research and its ability to inform real world clinical practice. …… In studies assessing the efficacy and effectiveness of CHM for COVID-19 these issues are especially problematic.45 CHM formulas are individualized to address specific patient symptoms and presentation.46,47 COVID-19 infection presents with a broad range of associated symptoms.48 The CHM formulas used in the COVID-19 trials were designed to treat common COVID-19 symptoms and were not individualized or modified over time. COVID-19 pathology is associated with a rapidly changing symptom picture. In real world clinical practice EAM practitioners would modify CHM formulas as the symptoms changed. In our study many participants talked about this and the importance of delivering modified formulas to patients in a timely manner—“I’d fill the formulas and hop in my car and drive it to their doorstep, which was great, ‘cause I could do it—I could change it every couple of days as their symptoms evolved” (PC 9). ….. Given the mounting evidence of effectiveness of CHM for COVID-1910–12 perhaps a reevaluation of the value of traditional medicines and their theories and paradigms is warranted. ….. The information sources informing their treatment strategies included anecdotal information from China disseminated through professional networks and EAM websites and journals, and to a lesser extent scientific studies evaluating the effectiveness of CHM for COVID-19. The latter were generally not deemed useful for informing patient care because treatment had been initiated before they were published and because of limitations associated with the research and the ability to apply it to real world practice.