Discuss about the application of Artemisia annua prescriptions in the treatment of COVID-19

• 作者: Guang Chen Ruolan Dong Xinyu Xiong
• 来源期刊: TMR现代中药
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: COVID-19 CHLOROQUINE ARTEMISININ ARTEMISIA annua
• 年，卷（期）: tmrxdzy_2020,（3）
• 页码范围: 158-164
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: R37

摘要

The applications of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)have been playing an important role in treating the epidemics of Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19),which is now prevalent all over the world.Exploring the mechanisms of TCM compound prescriptions might be difficult though,pharmacological studies on elucidating the effective components of TCM could serve as the experimental basis in the application of TCM compound prescription in treating COVID-19.As the critical active ingredients of Qinghao(Artemisia annua),artemisinin was initially used as antimalaria drug.Artemisia annua prescriptions take significant effect against pneumonia.Sharing similarities in pharmacology with artemisinin,chloroquine has been confirmed effective in inhibiting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-Cov-2)both in vitro and practically.In this context,we discussed the application of Artemisia annua prescriptions against COVID-19 along with the antiviral effect of chloroquine.