Showing posts with label World Health Organisation (WHO). Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Health Organisation (WHO). Show all posts

Friday, October 29, 2021

Many types and choices of Covid-19 vaccines

 The world has got many choices of Covid-19 vaccines! So is Australia going to!

 

TGA Australia has approved of Covaxin and Sinovac and very soon people are confident the Australian federal and state governments will approve them to be administered in Australia! What a great human government and department of health Australia!

 

So far, vaccines administered in Australia:

 

Comirnaty (Pfizer, USA)

Covid-19 Janssen (Janssen-Cilag, USA)

Spikevax (Moderna, USA)

Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca, UK)

 

Whereas the major Covid-19 vaccines on earth (besides the 4 above):

 

Cansino (China)

Coronavac (Sinovac, China)

Covishield (India)

Covaxin (Bharat Biotech, India)

Sinopharm (Sinopharm, China)

Sputnik Light (Gamaleya Institute, Russia)

Sputnik V (Gamaleya Institute, Russia)

 

Many more approved vaccines are becoming available in Australia and around the world. Since the technology used to produce different types of vaccines can vary greatly its becoming obvious different people benefit from different vaccines in a different way.

 

Naturally inclined people prefer something natural and technologically proven for 20 to 30 years and even longer. These people likely accounts to about 20% (in Australia and around the world) of the populations whore delaying their vaccination decisions as they may not get access to vaccines with good and proven, old-fashioned, traditional technology, such as the inactivated vaccines.

 

Now, lets look at types of approved vaccines internationally:

 

Inactivated -

Sinopharm (Approved in 68 countries, 15 trials)

Sinovac (Approved in 41 countries, 22 trials)

 

Messenger RNA (mRNA) -

Pfizer (Approved in 103 countries, 38 trials)

Moderna (Approved in 76 countries, 31 trials)

 

Non Replicating Viral Vector -

Covishield (Approved in 46 countries, 2 trials)

Janssen (Approved in 75 countries, 13 trials)

Sputnik V (Approved in 72 countries, 22 trials)

AstraZeneca (Approved in 124 countries, 46 trials)

 

Percentage and number of humans of population FULLY Covid-19 vaccinated in some countries:

 

Chile 73%, 13.96 million

China 71%, 995.42 million

Canada 70%, 26.61 million

Israel 64%, 5.90 million

UK 65%, 43.69 million

France 64%, 43.13 million

Japan 55%, 69.19 million

USA 54%, 177.93 million

South Korea 43%, 22.27 million

Brazil 38%, 80.79 million

Australia 38%, 9.76 million

Mexico 32%, 41.25 million

Russia 28%, 40.35 million

India 15%, 207.00 million

South Africa 14%, 8.30 million

Kenya 2%, 1.08 million

* Our World In Data, Sept 21, 2021, by Fortune.com

 

Having said that, what countries are using what vaccines? And what types of technology involved? The bigger numbers are:

 

Country; number of humans fully vaccinated; brands of vaccines:

 

China; 995.42 million; Sinopharm, Sinovac, Cansino.

India; 207.00 million; Covishield, Covaxin, Sputnik V.

USA; 177.93 million; Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca.

Brazil; 80.79 million; Pfizer, Janssen, Sputnik V, Astrazeneca, Covishield, Sinovac, Sinopharm.

 

How I admire Brazil! Brazil has all the different technologies used for various types of vaccines! All countries should open and are now opening up all the choices of vaccines so that everyone gets fair and free choices of vaccines.

 

The great governments are leaving political manipulations behind and do the right things right for humans. How amazing!

Friday, May 08, 2020

USA government is the real sick man of the world

“USA is the real sick man of the world”? Or rather 

“USA government is the real sick man of the world”?


QUESTION: Where does the new coronavirus Covid-19 come from?

The pandemic isn’t exactly over yet but there are already plenty of claims by eager and opportunistic politicians to hold someone or some countries responsible for their actions or in-actions. We saw Europe countries weren’t helping each other right from the beginning and USA govt was and still is not leading the world on the fight against the pandemic. Worse still, USA is the worst and hardest hit country so far. For many of the developed countries who didn’t do and still aren’t doing well are looking for someone else to blame to save faces. 

Some said the China government was slow in alerting other nations and was the origin of the new coronavirus; while some said some European governments and especially the USA govt were slow in reacting to protect the public. The blame games have always been an art that most politicians have to master if they are to excel, at least to survive in politics. Everyone bluffs, not everyone bluffs like a silky smooth politician. Still, we hope we can tell what’s truly wrong and right.

Some countries have also resorted to blaming the WHO (World Health Organisation), for not managing the pandemic crisis... despite the fact WHO has been warning again and again the need for stringent measures to contain the virus. These moronic governments can do pretty low to skirt off their own responsibilities. I feel sad for the people of these countries, to have low level and incompetent leadership. And the fact that some of them have been so-called leading the world; I wonder which hell they’re leading us to.

How do we validate or invalidate the claims? We ask these questions…


QUESTION: Where did the new coronavirus originally come from?

The short answer is “We don’t know yet.” The elaborate, and controversial answers lie ahead of this writing. Read on... Make your own judgments!


QUESTION: Where and when was the first known outbreak (The big one)? 

The well-known first wave came from Wuhan, HuiBei province of China; we’re starting to learn of some earlier smaller ones. Also, read on to see the THREE generations and FIVE main variants of this coronavirus (so far) and the Parent-Children-Grandchildren relationship among them, in order to see where were the GRANDPARENT coronavirus came from.  

For example, check out these thesis and findings:

The rooted network suggested H13 and H35 to be ancestral haplotypes, and H1 (and its descendant haplotypes including all samples from the Hua Nan market in Wuhan) was derived H3 haplotype... Phyloepidemiologic analyses indicated the SARS-CoV-2 source at the Hua Nan market should be imported from other places... [72]

“Now It seems clear that [the Wuhan] seafood market is not the only origin of the virus,” he wrote. “But to be honest, we still do not know where the virus came from now,” Bin Cao of Capital Medical University, the corresponding author of The Lancet article [23] and a pulmonary specialist, said, appreciating feedback from Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University.

“Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally”, “The Huanan seafood market in Wuhan has been widely considered the source of the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. But the virus may have infected people elsewhere first.” [99] By Jon Cohen, Science Magazine, Jan 26, 2020. 

Checking out the PATIENT 0 (Zero) or where the virus came from is important to stop the pandemic and blame games. It’s proven to be rather hard to do that. It’s not like every county has the resources and the will to nail down the first confirmed case in the country. Why would they either? To tell the world the country had earlier cases where they didn’t identify in the beginning? To confess they made a mistake in the beginning and try to cover things up? 

Only real SCIENTISTS do that, POLITICIANS don’t. 

We know some politicians have already chosen their sides and for them it’s just a matter of playing the blame plots well to keep their roles in politics, either to win some votes, or to cover their ass, or for their own greedy benefits. 

Fortunately most politicians and leaders of the world are very genuinely wise humans that do their work professionally. We can safely ignore the very few irresponsible politicians skirting off responsibilities and shouting for someone else to be blamed. (If only we can...)


QUESTION: Where and when did the virus first strike the world? (Those SMALLER ONES that most countries hadn’t noticed when the virus first showed up)

New autopsy results (Northern California's Santa Clara County, USA) show two Californians died of novel coronavirus in early and mid-February. One died on Feb 6th, and another who died on Feb 17th, both were at home in the same county, officials said -- up to three weeks before the previously known first US death from the virus.

The two in California had NO "significant travel history" that would have exposed them to the virus.
"Somebody who died on February 6, they probably contracted that virus early to mid-January," Dr Jha told CNN's "New Day" Wednesday. "It takes at least two to three weeks from the time you contract the virus and you die from it,” Dr Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told CNN the finding was significant. [62] 

The connection between the February deaths and coronavirus did not become apparent until now (April 22, 2020) because of strict limitations on testing at the time, Dr Sara Cody, Santa Clara County’s public health officer, told The Post. [65]

The US CDC only released the Covid-19 testing criteria on Mar 3, 2020. Does that mean many Covid-19 deaths related to pneumonia prior to that would be categorized as ‘influenza’ deaths?

In September 2019, the “influenza” outbreak in US caused at least 34 million infections, and 350,000 people were hospitalized, resulting in 20,000 deaths. Some patients with pneumonia were suspected to be caused by e-cigarettes, and were later ruled out. The cause is still unknown. Up to mid April, the CDC says influenza has caused up to 57,300 deaths and sickened up to 41.3 million people, according to new estimates. [102]

On March 11th, US CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield confessed some patients who were thought to have died of influenza were posthumously diagnosed with coronavirus, Covid-19 virus.

On May 3rd, 2020, in an interview with France TV BFM, Prof Dr Yves Cohen, doctor-in-charge of emergency and resuscitation of Jean-Verdier Hospital revealed that a patient of his had been infected with the new coronavirus when the patient was admitted in Dec 27, 2019. The date is close to a month earlier that the official date of the first case of coronavirus released by the ministry of health, France. The patient was sick for 15 days, spread to his 2 sons but not his wife. He hadn’t any contacts with anyone from China nor did he travel overseas or local trip. Prof Cohen re-screened thru 24 genome patterns left behind by patients from late 2019 to early 2020. He has suspected some of these patients had very likely contracted the new coronavirus. Another pandemic expert Prof Olivier Bouchaud ascertained the finding.

Cohen told the BBC's Newsday programme that the patient must have been infected between 14 and 22 December, as coronavirus symptoms take between five and 14 days to appear. [79]

Virologist Sylvie van der Werf and Etienne Simon-Lorie’re have both ascertained that the coronavirus that’s currently affecting France did not come from Italy or China, but came from local.

“It’s also possible there are more early cases to be found,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a UN briefing in Geneva. He encouraged other countries to check records of flu and pneumonia for cases in late 2019, saying this would give the world a “new and clearer picture” of the outbreak. [56]

True. Other places and earlier cases that were accidentally missed or deliberately ignored? No wonder WHO is urging everyone to trace back cases back in late 2019 to understand how the spread had taken place. 

It proves that the current understanding of this new virus is far from enough in the world. Where did the new coronavirus originate? What are the propagation characteristics? Judging from the existing clues, it is not enough to draw an absolute conclusion.


QUESTION: There have been reports of cases linked to 2019 Military World Games held at Wuhan at the end of October, 2019. What do we know about it?

We know of Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman ZHAO Lijian openly questioned the possibility US military brought the virus onto Wuhan soils during the sport game, on his tweet on March 13, 2020.

The conspiracy posits that 300 athletes from the US military who in October attended the 7th Military World Games in Wuhan, where the epidemic first broke out in November, were infected with the virus, thereby spreading it in China.

Zhao shared a clip of CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield's testimony during the House Oversight Committee hearing from March 11th. In the video, Redfield said some patients who were thought to have died of influenza were posthumously diagnosed with coronavirus, which has some similar symptoms as the flu.

And for the first time in a long time in US history a Chinese ambassador, in this case Mr CUI Tiankai, was summoned to the State Department shortly after Zhao's comments were posted online.

There were also rumor five US sport athletes were sent back home with a military jet prior to finishing the game for they were too sick to participate further. It was later revealed that they contracted Malaria instead of Covid-19. The interview didn’t mention USA either, the word ‘foreign’ was used. [64] I bet you’re not sure who to believe...

By the way, China had 133 gold, 64 silver and 42 bronze medals. Russia won 51 gold, 53 silver and 57 bronze. Brazil got 21 gold, 31 silver and  36 bronze medals. [71]

Guess what USA got? ZERO gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze medals... Why? What happened?

The USA was ranked 35th among about 100 nations that took part in the sport games. What happened to the once world NUMBER ONE in sports in the world?

Together with the sad casualty of coronavirus sweeping over US now, do we call: 

“USA is the real sick man of the world”? 
Judging from the many unscrupulous behaviors/actions of its top leaders and politicians would we rather say this? 

“USA government is the real sick man of the world”!  


QUESTION: Is this new coronavirus creation of NATURE? Transmitted from bats, rodents or pagolins to humans?

According to WHO, they reasserted on May 1st, 2020, that the new coronavirus came from creation of NATURAL, not some human-made virus from the labs.

I guess that says it’s a reminder/punishment to human beings who have been doing a lousy job in managing the earth, especially on the cruelty to animals.

“COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has a natural origin” is the conclusion of a research paper of five scientists from the United States, Britain and Australia published in the journal Nature Medicine on March 17. They pointed out in the paper that the new coronavirus cannot be created in the laboratory, but a product of natural evolution, which may be the virus' natural choice for human or animal hosts. [51]

Now, I’ve been following reports on the origin of this virus for a while. Information has been plentiful and colorful (as to the color of skins). A while after the outbreak started in Wuhan the Chinese people were wondering if the virus only targeted yellow skins but not white people. After a short while it seemed the European have fallen to the virus too and therefore writings shifted direction too: “Oh it’s made by nature to work on every humans!” Yet at about the same time some Black people in USA confidently acclaimed the virus had not a chance on them because genetically they’re different and stronger, a notion they’re paying a hefty price now. There are further articles on how the Black have been sidelined by the relative disadvantages in not having health care insurance, having jobs that get in touch with people more which expose them to the virus more readily and so on. 

So far as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic we can safely say that It seems to work equally well on all human beings regardless of colors of skins. Other than different builds of immune system level, all humans facing the Covid-19 react the way humans would react. 

Fair challenge for everybody. So we’re having the same type of enemy of virus? A new virus from the nature that affects everybody, not something that’s created or genetically altered to infect certain races?

As curious human beings who watch too many dramatic and twist-plot most of us aren’t interested in the nature talk. So let’s assume we aren’t very keen in discussing any further on this nature topic. And that leads us to another obvious point. Very soon on it, read on...


QUESTION: Wait a second. We’ve read about the notion of 5 variant types, 3 generations of the new coronavirus. What are they and what do they imply?

On Jan 19, 2020, a thesis entitled “Decoding the evolution and transmissions of the novel pneumonia coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) using whole genomic data” [72] was published by Wen-Bin YU and three other researchers. The finding concluded that the Hua Nan seafood market at Wuhan is not the origin of the new coronavirus. 

In order to be able to subdivide the sources, the researchers divided 58 haplotypes into five groups, namely 3 center (ancient super communicators) haplotypes (H1, H3 and H13) and 2 new super communicators haplotypes (H56 and mv2). Based on this, it is possible to identify there have been three sources of viruses in Guangdong, and two sources of viruses in Chongqing and Taiwan. 

Among them, a family in Shenzhen, Guangdong, spread through people-to-people early on. There are more samples in Australia, France, Japan and the United States, and their patients have at least two sources of infection, especially the United States has five sources. It is very worthy of attention that H56, the super communicator haplotype, is also the source of infection for patients in Australia, France and the United States, as well as Taiwan. [74]

Meanwhile, according to “Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes”, published by Peter Forster and three other researchers in April 8, 2020 [75], there is not only one type of new coronavirus, it is divided into three variants of A, B and C viruses:

Type A virus: the most primitive new coronavirus that infects humans, spreads from bats to humans, and is ubiquitously everywhere in the USA. The study found that two-thirds of Americans with new coronary pneumonia were infected with type A virus, and most of the infected people were from the West Coast; not New York City, which was the epicenter of the epidemic. There are very few cases of Type A in Wuhan, mainly Americans who have lived in Wuhan. (Interesting... )

Type B virus: It was mutated from Type A in China and is the main type of epidemic in China. It is the most common in East Asian countries and has not yet spread out of East Asia. 

“Surprisingly however, researchers found the A variant was not Wuhan’s dominant virus type. Instead, mutated versions of A were found in Americans that lived in Wuhan and A-type viruses were also found in patients in Australia and the US.” [77]

Type C virus: It is considered to be derived from Type B and is the main type of European new coronavirus. This type has also been found in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and other regions, but type C virus has not been found in mainland China.

The paper was co-authored by the British and German research team. The first author, Dr. Peter Forster of the University of Cambridge, said in an online interview with CCTV that the first human infection of the new crown virus may be from mid-September to early December, 2019.

Like any papers published, these papers aren’t without criticism. We do need to read and analyse like a scientist. Go comrades go!

Finally, what do we say to the saying “Of the ABCDE five variants of the new coronavirus, we can find them all in the USA; there are only two of them found in China”? Does that say the GRANDPARENT of the new coronavirus has been found? From the USA? Please leave the answer to all the great scientists. Good luck to our scientists!


QUESTION: Is the coronavirus human-made? If yes, why? And how did it get out of the lab? Deliberately let loose or by accident?

There are always two sides to any stories; actually there are multiple sides to any story as humans are getting more greedy and unscrupulous. 

A report that hasn’t been reviewed titled “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag” [53] was submitted to bioRxiv on Jan 31, 2020. The paper implicitly pointed out that the new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is an artificial biochemical weapon. The Wuhan Institute of Virology has been suspected of being the research unit for the new coronavirus. The report was almost immediately withdrawn, drawing criticism of such shoddy research work of rushed methods, and coincident findings, at most.

Recently, there have been more discoveries that some coronaviruses has been successfully synthesized or re-created by scientists again and again, and there has been a wave of "new coronavirus is artificial" on the Internet.

As early as February, the World Health Organization has asserted the new coronavirus is not artificial. There is a genetic sequence difference between the new coronavirus and other coronaviruses, which is strong evidence of natural evolution.


QUESTION: What do we know about this Wuhan Lab? Is it the source of the new coronavirus?

First, the lab is called the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that studies viruses and how they transmit to humans. The USA government and scientists have given funding and training to the lab in the previous years, before the pandemic, and the lab is “part of a coordinated global effort to monitor viruses,” according to the New York Times.

So far we have no evidence that say the coronavirus was from the lab. If the virus has been proven to be natural then that’s no such talk needed. If it’s proven to be man made then some P4 labs around the world with crazy scientists will become really suspicious. There are only about 20 countries which have P4 certification labs. Happy researching, folks. 


QUESTION: Would humans make war weapons from bacterias, fungus and viruses?

You betcha. Not everyone is as sweet as you, my dear.

I currently have a tendency to believe the world war 3 can be triggered anytime by small little conflicts in life by some arrogant and aggressive nation leaders especially those from the few big countries. Two of them, among the big countries that are currently willingly or unwillingly engaged in the wrestles are USA and China. USA has been number 1 since world war 1 and for many years strategized and formulated policies onto the world to keep USA on top. China is the number 2, a rising star awakened from the long sleep. I could be wrong but I think these two countries must have had plenty of resources poured into the research and development of biology of pathogens to be used as... weapons of war! 

There is only one earth and the cake is only so big. It obviously isn’t big enough for a few greedy nations to coexist peacefully. Also, some invisible hands behind some big countries have been on the upper class for too long they wouldn’t wanna share their bigger portions with developing countries. Suppressing these uprising stars with all costs is the only method they could think of. Not only do we have old-fashioned physical wars, we also have wars of financial and economics, wars of artificial intelligence and internet dominance, and of course wars of using bacterias, viruses to cause illnesses and sickness to the enemies.  

The two countries, and probably a few more others, have the capabilities to work on virus to the level artificially altering the genes of viruses to grow them to become potentially lethal to work as weapon in war time. And these bigger countries that have P4/BSL4 labs (Biosafety Level 4) are USA, UK (the two have plenty), Canada, France, Germany, China (including Taiwan), Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, India, Australia, Russia, Italy... (Correct me if I’m wrong, please) 


QUESTION: Have humans made biological weapons in the past?

Certainly.

In 1155, Emperor Barbarossa poisoned water wells with human bodies in Tortona, Italy. 

In 1495, Spanish mixed wine with blood of leprosy patients to sell to their French foes in Naples, Italy.

In 1763, the British distributed blankets from smallpox patients to Native Americans as biological war weapon.

In 1863, Confederates sold clothing from yellow fever and smallpox patients to Union troops during the US Civil War.

In World War 1, German and French agents use glanders and anthrax. [67]

Forwarding to more recent time during World War II, US Fort Detrick began planning a biological and chemical weapons laboratory. After Japan surrendered in 1945, Surgeon General and microbiologist Ishii Shiro, the leader of Unit 731 (Wondering what a Surgeon general and microbiologist leading a unit during wartime?), and Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the US military in Japan, reached a secret verbal agreement so the former would not to be held accountable for war crimes. Researchers of Unit 731 then helped the US develop biological and chemical weapons. In 1947, in Kamakura, Japan, the verbal agreement was properly written down as agreement! The biological warfare program was called ‘Extensive’; and official information suppressed by a treaty with USA in which all charges for war crimes were dropped for exchange of information from experiments. [70]

After the signing of the Kamakura agreement, the US Americans hired Ishii Shiro as a senior consultant at Fort Detrick in accordance with the agreement, and named a building there as 731 for Ishii Shiro research. Later, with the encouragement of Ishii Shiro, Baldwin, the top person in charge of Fort Detrick finally agreed to the unthinkable and used live people to conduct bacterial tests in the United States.

According to CNN, in the 20-year period from 1955 to 1975, a total of about 7,000 US soldiers were forced to undergo chemical and germ weapon tests at Edgewood Arsenal [68] and Fort Detrick.
 
A bit more about Fort Detrick, United States Army Medical Command installation, Frederick, Maryland: Historically, Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S.A. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the discontinuation of that program, it has hosted most elements of the US biological defense program. - Wikipedia, as of May 5th, 2020.


QUESTION: How easy or difficult it is to make/synthesize a new virus from scratch?

We’re no viral scientists. But we know the first synthetic virus was created in 2002, in New York, USA.

Check this out:

The Code To A COVID-19 Solution, A local lab (New York State, USA) is looking to create a coronavirus vaccine in just a few months, By Christopher Birsner -March 31, 2020; It’s led by Stony Brook University’s distinguished professor Dr. Eckard Wimmer. The core of the company comes from Wimmer’s technology that helped him become the first to synthesize a Polio virus from chemicals, from scratch, in 2002. [73]

If we could make a Polio virus from scratch 18 years ago, imagine what humans can do right now...
 
To these days more and more reports are citing different generations of genes in this mutation of Covid-19. The last one I checked was three generations and FIVE variant types from A, B, C, D and E. The scientists do want us to understand their findings by making things so much easy for us. 
The creation of viruses is no easy task; but the true crazy scientists have never been interested in easy tasks either. 


QUESTION: A number of cases of mysterious pneumonia took place in July 2019 at Springfield, Virginia, USA. What viral infection was it? Was it related to the current Covid-19?

It was reported that as early as July 1, 2019, a mysterious respiratory disease affected the Greenspring Retirement Community (Now Greenspring Senior Living Community) in Virginia, US. The disease is suspected to be related to new coronavirus pneumonia related. [82]

According to the information on the official website of the Fairfax County Health Bureau, from July 1 to July 15, 2019, 63 of the 263 elderly people in the Greenspring Retirement Community contracted unknown respiratory diseases and developed cough, symptoms such as pneumonia caused 3 deaths and 19 employees also experienced symptoms. The locals quickly isolated patients and closed the place until the outbreak ended on July 26.

Another nursing home in the county also had respiratory infections on July 17.

Whether this matter is related to the new coronary pneumonia is still unclear. According to official U.S. statements, sudden respiratory illnesses in nursing homes may be caused by rhinoviruses that cause cold and cluster outbreaks, but they occurred during the non-influenza season and were indeed not normal. For outbreaks not caused by the flu, the cause may never be found, because it is difficult to test and find the cause of the disease in the elderly.


QUESTION: US CDC shut down a bio-weapon lab in Maryland in July 2019, of the Fort Detrick US Army. Why was it closed down? Had it leaked out some bacterias? Viruses? Coronaviruses?

Not many people know that Greenspring Senior Living Community, Springfield is only an hour’s drive from Fort Detrick, the US Army biological laboratory, the largest biochemical weapons base in the United States.

On the second week of the mysterious respiratory outbreak report in the nursing home, on Friday, July 19, 2019, the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases was suddenly ordered to close Fort Detrick labs. The CDC issued a cease and desist order for work in the biosafety level 3 and 4 laboratories, where researchers handle dangerous pathogens like Ebola and the bacteria causing the plague. The order came after the CDC noted lapses in biosafety protocols during a site visit. Problems with disposal of dangerous materials led the government to suspend research at the military’s leading biodefense center.

According to reports, the institute is primarily responsible for researching bacteria and toxins that may threaten the US military or public health, and investigating outbreaks of disease. Scientists in the laboratory have been using terrible materials, including Ebola virus and various other pathogenic bacterias.

It is precisely the laboratory that has a number of security violations, and several previous safety accidents, including the loss of deadly strains such as raw anthrax and the loss of virus strains, the panic-stricken American people suspected that the new coronavirus could have leaked from the laboratory. There was a White House petition launched on March 10 to disclose the real reasons behind. (This petition is now closed. It has been archived because it did not meet the signature requirements. It can no longer be signed, the website said.) [101]

By the way, as on Mar 27, 2020, Fort Detrick laboratory has been restored to full operations, as Level 3 and 4 laboratories, after roughly 8 months of shutdown. [103]

On Oct 18, 2019, the US govt organized Event 201 - A Global Pandemic Exercise with the participation of the Deputy Director of CIA. It’s right spot-on. The Central Intelligence Agency is surely very intelligent-so much so it knows a natural virus is in brewing (and yet not being able to warn its own govt to take proper measures? Does that mean the USA govt lets its own people suffer and die without taking many actions? Why?). It’s no wonder there are so many conspiracy theories. That’s because there are so many leaked secrets and ‘coincident’ events to lead us to think of these conspiracies!


QUESTION: Why did the USA govt stop paying their membership fee to WHO?

No country owes the World Health Organization more in annual dues than the USA. The $118 million US dollars that US is supposed to pay the group this year amounts to nearly a quarter of the annual fees the WHO assesses to all 194 of its member states.

On top of this year's overdue payment, according to the WHO, the USA also still owes $81 million from last year. Donald Trump, the USA president, says a review is needed to investigate what he calls the WHO's failure to challenge Chinese government accounts of handling initial cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan. [123]

What’s the consequence if USA no longer pays its membership fee? It means WHO will have its funding cut by 15% annually. As long as the World Health Organization has less money, it cannot continue research; after all, research is very expensive. If we can't study it, we can't find out where it came from. Does it in a way imply the USA is guilty of some wrongdoings? And therefore the govt wouldn’t want anyone to investigate further?


NOW WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME? FOR ALL OF US?

So many reports, not many conclusions, so many interpretations, and we keep reading...! 

Why do you keep reading them? It’s stressing and it’s not conclusive... 

“They’re very important ‘cause if I’m looking for someone to blame I’d need all the information that favor my position.” Some opportunistic politicians must be thinking and acting this way.

If you speak good English or some European ones, people may listen a bit more. If you speak Asian, bad luck; not many have a chance to understand you, internationally. Also, if you have strong guns and rockets backing you up, people are forced to listen to you. If you own the media, that’s helping a lot by burying the society with all your talks but no one else. Blame games take place by telling lies one hundred times and more. The more people hear them the more they’ll buy them. Many of us are shallow people, like it or not. Very soon I’ll start to believe the guy who keeps showing up and talking on TVs. Come on, why do you think big corporations pour so much money in advertisement? To tell you the truth? You must be kidding me...


ANYWAY, AFTER ALL THE CRABS OF MINE I JUST WANNA SAY:

Where does the new coronavirus come from and how? What evolution process has it gone through? Everyone wants answers. Although we will not get this answer in a short period of time, I believe that one day it will be known to the world.


A LITTLE BIT SOMETHING OF CAUSE AND EFFECT ON EARTH:

We humans are doing something every second and the heaven (The force of the universe, if you prefer) is watching us every NANO second:

Those with good intention and do the right things right will be rewarded with peace in heaven;
Those with good intention but do the right things wrong will be forfeited on earth with mix bags of happiness and sadness;
Those with bad intention but end up doing the right things will be given chances to learn again;
Those with bad intention and do all the wrong things right will suffer like hell In their current life and after life. 

The law of heaven, humans and earth have mercy on living beings but some humans don’t have this beautiful trait or understanding. Those who have the power yet abuse or neglect their power to do the right things will face the torments and torture of living very soon. We all must learn to be fearful and respectful of the force of nature.

We pray to the force of the universe that these lost sheeps be guided or corrected sooner so that they don’t lead us to hell on earth; and they themselves don’t end up in the real hell by dying miserably either.


FINAL SENTENCES:

The current pandemic of the new coronavirus is still raging all over the world. I hope all countries in the world will focus their energy and attention on the key prevention measures, effective control and treatments. 

There is very likely we're going to have a second wave or even third wave depending on the seasonal changes, social distancing and quarantine measures. (or the lost sheeps realizing about their wrong direction and turning course to compensate and atone) 

I hope we can all fight like front-line health care workers wisely and fearlessly against a common enemy of virus. All other topics of blame games are not important, at least not for now.

I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.


LINKS/MORE INFO:

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[The End] "USA government is the real sick man of the world", May 9, 2020, by John Lew.
https://lews-info.blogspot.com/2020/05/usa-government-is-real-sick-man-of-world.html

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Who pays for Covid-19? VS: We should get compensation from the United States

China must pay for Covid-19?  “Hey, the United States did a lot of damage to the world with the 2008, 2009 financial crisis. We should get compensation from the United States.”


Check out the 3.5-minute clip from an hour long interview with Kishore Mahbubani (Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore) and Anton Roux (CEO of ADC Forum, Australian Davos Connection)



“How do you view the emerging sentiment in the media, of China must pay for Covid?”

4 (FOUR) points to be noted (From Kishore Mahbubani):

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Consider the consequences: If you make it a universal rule that if a country does damage to other countries, whether intentionally or unintentionally, it must always compensate other countries; as you know in 2008, 2009 financial crisis began with the Lehman Brother’s collapse, in New York, right? Now, it did a tremendous amount of damage to many economics around the world. Did any Australians then suggest “Hey, the United States did a lot of damage to the world with the 2008, 2009 financial crisis. We should get compensation from the United States.” Nobody did, right? (1)

What should we learn from this is that instead of being punitive to the country that suffered the first, we should immediately help the country that gets affected first because if we don’t help them, we’ll get affected too.

Now we’re actually very fortunate that at the end of the day the Chinese, after their initial missteps and bungles, came down so hard, so tough that they locked, stopped it completely, almost, in China. And they did some very brave decisions, like locking up a province of 60 million people, 2 days before Chinese new year. Now that’s amazing. I can’t imagine any American politicians locking down America 2 days before Thanksgiving. It’s almost impossible, ‘cause everybody wants to go home for Thanksgiving. And that was what China did. So let’s be very clear and clinical about what China did.

China did many things wrong, but China also did many things right. And the people who say this is not just the World Health Organization. I recommend you read an open letter from the Lancet which is a very prestigious British medical journal, a letter that is signed by thousands of professionals saying “Hey, China did an amazing job, actually, to stop it in its spread.” I think it’s very important to be very fair and objective in our assessment these days.

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Notes:

1.“Hey, the United States did a lot of damage to the world with the 2008, 2009 financial crisis. We should get compensation from the United States.” Nobody did, right?
- I wonder why not... Why no one suggested or asked the question then?

https://youtu.be/0FGisqJW1cg Kishore Mahbubani: the implications of the current crisis for the US-China relationship | Anton Roux, ADC Forum. Video; 1.01:23, Conducted April 9th, 2020. Uploaded April 10th, 2020.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19; Published Feb 19th, 2020.

https://www.change.org/p/support-for-the-public-health-professionals-of-china-combatting-covid-19 Support for the Public Health Professionals of China Combatting COVID-19; 19,322 signatures as of April 20th, 2020.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Human Avian/ Bird Flu and Chinese medicine

Human Avian/Bird Flu and Chinese medicine

Translation and interpretation of section 5.4.1 of <人禽流感诊疗方案(2005版修订版)> (Ren Qin Liu Gan Zhen Liao Fang An (2005 Ban Xiu Ding Ban); Human Bird/Avian Flu Treatment Policy (2005 Revision version)), issued on November 23rd, 2005, by the Ministry of Health, People’s Republic of China.

The policy is the third revision (and the latest up to June 14, 2008) since the first publication in 2004. This new revision was compiled by 25 specialists in the departments of epidemiology, pulmonology, paediatrics, emergency, medical imaging, medical examination, virology, physical examinations & clinical skills.

Below is translation of section 5.4.1 of the policy which details Chinese herbal treatments of Bird Flu in accordance to TCM syndromes. Four syndromes are listed. Modification tips are given for reference. Comments by John Lew explain how the herbs play different cohesive roles in treating different syndromes.

5.4.1 Chinese herbal treatments of Avian/Bird Flu in accordance to TCM syndromes:

5.4.1.1)
Syndrome: External toxins invading Lungs

Symptoms: Fever, aversion to cold, sore throat, headache, muscle and joint pain, coughing, little phlegm, tongue with white coat, rapid and slippery pulse.
Mechanism: Toxins invading Lungs’ protective layer, Lungs losing the ability to maintain upward & downward qi passage.
Therapeutic principles: Clear away heat and toxins, activate the flow of qi, and penetrate external pathogens.

Basic formula (Ingredients) & reference dosage:
No. 1) 柴胡10g (Chai Hu, Chaihu, Bupleurum root, Radix Bupleuri);
No. 2) 黄芩12g (Huang Qin, Huangqin, Scutellaria root, Radix Scutellariae);
No. 3) 炙麻黄6g (Zhi Ma Huang, Honey-baked Mahuang, Honey-baked ephedra, Herba Ephedrae Praeparata);
No. 4) 炒杏仁10g (Chao Xing Ren, Fried Xingren, Fried bitter apricot kernel, Semen Armeniacae Amarum);
No. 5) 银花10g (Yin Hua, Yinhua, Honeysuckle flower, Flos Lonicerae);
No. 6) 连翘15g (Lian Qiao, Lianqiao, Forsythia fruit, Fructus Forsythiae);
No. 7) 牛蒡子15g (Niu Bang Zi, Niubangzi, Arctium fruit, Fructus Arctii);
No. 8) 羌活10g (Qiang Huo, Qianghuo, Notopterygium root, Rhizoma seu Radix Notopterygii);
No. 9) 白茅根15g (Bai Mao Gen, Baimaogen, Lalang grass rhizome, Rhizoma Imperatae);
No. 10) 芦根15g (Lu Gen, Lugen, Reed rhizome, Rhizoma Phragmitis);
No. 11) 生甘草6g (Unprepared Gan Cao, Sheng Gancao, Licorice root, Radix Glycyrrhizae)

Modifications: For severe cough, add 炙枇杷叶(Zhi Pi Pa Ye, Honey-prepared Pipaye, Loquat leaf, Folium Eriobotryae Praeparata), 浙贝母(Zhe Bei Mu, Zhebeimu, Thunberg Fritillary Bulb, Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii). For Nausea and vomiting, add 竹茹(Zhu Ru, Zhuru, Bamboo shavings, Caulis Bambusae in Taeniam), 苏叶(Su Ye, Suye, Perilla leaf, Folium Perillae).

John’s comments:
1) This formula combines that of 银翘散(Yin Qiao San, a powder formula for the treatment of superficial syndrome of wind-heat, consists of 10 herbs) and 麻杏甘石汤(Ma Xing Gan Shi Tang, a decoction formula for the treatment of cough and dyspnea due to wind-heat, consists of 4 herbs) with modifications. Chai Hu dispels pathogenic heat in the half exterior. Huang Qin clears out stagnated heat in the half interior. The combined use of the two herbs removes pathogenic factors from Shao Yang channels. Ma Huang facilitates the flow of the Lung-qi to relieve asthma, and its pungent flavor is good at dispelling exogenous factors. When used in honey-baked form, the effect in relieving asthma and cough is stronger. Xing Ren, with bitter taste and warm property, helps to move the Lung-qi to the lower part of the body. Yin Hua and Lian Qiao, pungent in flavor and cool in property, are used to relieve the exterior syndrome and clear away pathogenic heat and toxic materials. Niu Bang Zi and Gan Cao are used to relieve sore throat and cough by clearing away toxins and removing phlegm and, furthermore, the pungent and cool property of Niu Bang Zi is good for dispelling exterior heat. Qiang Huo, pungent in flavor and warm property, is used to expel exterior wind, remove dampness and relieve pain. Bai Mao Gen, being cold and sweet, helps to cleanse heat in the Lungs and Stomach. Lu Gen, sweet in flavor and mild cool in property, is used to remove pathogenic heat and promote the production of body fluid and relieve thirst and restlessness, working in tandem with Bai Mao Gen.

2) The formula seems more inclined in catering for wind-heat syndrome. The use of Ma Huang, Qiang Huo, even though warm and pungent, helps in arresting asthmatic symptoms and removing dampness. Tongue impression for wind-heat is usually thin yellowish fur, in contrary to what’s stated above. Anyway, all other factors are to be taken into account.

5.4.1.2)
Syndrome: Toxins invading Lungs and Stomach

Symptoms: Fever, or aversion to cold, headache, muscle and joint pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, lower abdomen pain, tongue with whitish greasy fur coupled with floating and slippery pulse.
Mechanism: Toxins invading Lungs and Stomach, dampness accumulated at Stomach and Intestines, causing disruption of downward movement.
Therapeutic principles: Clear away heat and toxins, remove dampness and regulate Stomach.

Basic formula (Ingredients) & reference dosage:
No. 1) 葛根20g (Ge Gen, Gegen, Pueraria Root, Radix Puerariae);
No. 2) 黄芩12g (Huang Qin, Huangqin, Scutellaria root, Radix Scutellariae);
No. 3) 黄连6g (Huang Lian, Huanglian, Coptis Root, Rhizoma Coptidis);
No. 4) 鱼腥草30g (Yu Xing Cao, Yuxingcao, Houttuynia herb, Herba Houttuyniae Heartleaf);
No. 5) 苍术10g (Cang Zhu, Cangzhu, Atractylodes, Rhizoma Atractylodis);
No. 6) 藿香10g (Huo Xiang, Huoxiang, Agastache, Herba Agastachis);
No. 7) 姜半夏10g (Jiang Ban Xia, Ginger-prepared Banxia, Ginger-prepared pinellia tuber, Rhizoma Pinelliae Praeparata);
No. 8) 厚朴6g (Hou Pu, Houpu, Macrostem onion, Bulbus Allii Macrostemi);
No. 9) 连翘15g (Lian Qiao, Lianqiao, Forsythia fruit, Fructus Forsythiae);
No. 10) 白芷10g (Bai Zhi, Baizhi, Dahurian angelica root, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae);
No. 11) 白茅根15g (Bai Mao Gen, Baimaogen, Lalang grass rhizome, Rhizoma Imperatae)

Modifications: For severe stomachache, add 炒白芍(Fried Bai Shao, Chao Baoshao, White peony root, Radix Paeoniae Alba)、炙甘草(Honey-baked Gan Cao, Zhi Gancao, Honey-baked licorice root, Radix Glycyrrhizae Praeparata). For severe cough, add 炒杏仁(Chao Xing Ren, Fried Xingren, Fried bitter apricot kernel, Semen Armeniacae Amarum), 蝉蜕(Chan Tui, Chantui, Cicada slough, Periostracum Cicadae).

John’s comments:
1) This formula combines that of 葛根黄芩黄连汤(Ge Gen Huang Qin Guang Lian Tang, a decoction formula for the syndrome of toxins invading both Lungs and Stomach, consists of 4 herbs) and 平胃散(Ping Wei San, a powder formula for the treatment of stagnancy of dampness in the Stomach and Spleen, consists of 4 herbs) with modifications. Ge Gen, sweet and pungent in flavor and cool in property, dispels pathogenic factors from the superficial muscles to reduce fever and invigorates Spleen-Yang to stop diarrhea. Huang Lian, bitter in flavor, cold in property, acting on the Heart, Stomach, Liver and Large Intestine channels, purges pathogenic fire in the Heart and Stomach. Huang Qin acts to clear away heat in the Lungs and purge fire in the upper body. Cang Zhu dispels dampness to promote the function of the Spleen. Hou Pu promotes qi circulation and eliminates dampness to relieve distension and fullness in the abdomen. Huo Xiang, with a pungent and aromatic smell, not only dispels wind but also expels the turbid pathogen and regulates the Stomach to arrest vomiting; meanwhile it can send up the lucid qi and send down the turbid, clear away summer-heat and filthy pathogens. Ban Xia dries dampness and regulates Stomach, lowers the adverse flow of qi to arrest vomiting. Bai Zhi expels wind to relieve pain and removes dampness. Yu Xing Cao, pungent in flavor and mild cold in property, clears heat and toxins from the Lungs. It also subdues swelling and promotes pus discharge. Lian Qiao, pungent in flavor and cool in property, is used to relieve the exterior syndrome and clear away pathogenic heat and toxic materials. Bai Mao Gen, being cold and sweet, helps to cleanse heat in the Lungs and Stomach.

2) Comparing to formula 5.4.1.1, this formula of 5.4.1.2 tailors the direction toward getting rid of dampness around the middle part of the body, namely Stomach and Spleen, by regulating qi movement and drying dampness.

5.4.1.3)
Syndrome: External toxins clouding Lungs
Symptoms: High fever, cough with fewer phlegm, chest numbness, asthmatic short breath, or palpitation, restlessness, agitation, even delirium, coma, deep purplish lips, dim-red tongue with greasy gray or yellow fur and sunken fine and rapid pulse.
Mechanism: Severe case of toxins invading and clouding Lungs, causing disruption of upward & downward qi passage, thus the high fever and cough; phlegm accumulation and stagnation of Lungs, thus dim purplish lips and asthmatic short breath.
Therapeutic principles: Clear away heat and purge Lungs, remove toxins and resolve phlegm.

Basic formula (Ingredients) & reference dosage:
No. 1) 炙麻黄9g (Zhi Ma Huang, Honey-baked Mahuang, Honey-baked ephedra, Herba Ephedrae Praeparata);
No. 2) 生石膏30g先下(Xian Xia; Boiled first) (Sheng Shi Gao, Unprepared Shigao, Gypsum, Cypsum Fibrosum);
No. 3) 炒杏仁10g (Chao Xing Ren, Fried Xingren, Fried bitter apricot kernel, Semen Armeniacae Amarum);
No. 4) 黄芩10g (Huang Qin, Huangqin, Scutellaria root, Radix Scutellariae);
No. 5) 知母10g (Zhi Mu, Zhimu, Wind-weed rhizome, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae);
No. 6) 浙贝母10g (Zhe Bei Mu, Zhebeimu, Thunberg Fritillary Bulb, Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii);
No. 7) 葶苈子15g (Ting Li Zi, Tinglizi, Lepidium seed, Semen Lepidii seu Descurainiae);
No. 8) 桑白皮15g (Sang Bai Pi, Sangbaipi, White mulberry root-bark, Cortex Mori);
No. 9) 蒲公英15g (Pu Gong Ying, Pugongying, Mongolian dandelion herb, Herba Taraxaci);
No. 10) 草河车10g (Cao He Che, Caoheche, [重楼, Chong Lou, Chonglou, Chinese paris rhizome, Rhizoma Paridis Chinensis]);
No. 11) 赤芍10g (Chi Shao, Chishao, Red Peony Root, Radix Paeoniae Rubra);
No. 12) 丹皮10g (Dan Pi, Danpi, Mountan Bark, Cortex Moutan Radicis)

Modifications: For high fever, unresponsiveness, or even delirium, add 安宫牛黄丸(Angong Niuhuang Wan / AnGong NiuHuang Pill, a OTC pill for treatment of high fever, delirium, coma due to phlegm-heat in the Heart or pathogenic heat in pericardium, consists of roughly 12 herbs (depending on manufacturers)); with a choice of using 清开灵注射液(QingKaiLing Injection), 痰热清注射液(TanReQing Injection), 鱼腥草注射液(YuXingCao / Houttuynia injection). For deep purplish lips, add 黄芪(Huang Qi, Huangqi, Astragalus root, Radix Astragali seu Hedysari), 三七(San Qi, Sanqi, Notoginseng, Radix Notoginseng), 当归尾(Dang Gui Wei, Danggui tail, Chinese angelica root, Radix Angelicae Sinensis). For constipation, add 生大黄(Sheng Dai Huang, Unprepared Daihuang, Rhubarb, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei),芒硝(Mang Xiao, Mangxiao, Mirabilite, Natrii Sulphas).

John’s comments:
1) The formula combines that of 麻杏甘石汤(Ma Xing Gan Shi Tang, a decoction formula for the treatment of cough and dyspnea due to wind-heat, consists of 4 herbs), 白虎汤(Bai Hu Tang, a decoction formula for the treatment of excessive heat syndrome in Yang Ming channels and qi system, consists of 4 herbs) and 葶苈大枣泻肺汤(Ting Li Da Zao Xie Fei Tang, a decoction formula for the treatment of phlegm accumulation and retention, consists of 2 herbs) with modifications, mostly addition of herbs. Ma Huang facilitates the flow of the Lung-qi to relieve asthma, and its pungent flavor is good at dispelling exogenous factors. When used in honey-baked form, the effect in relieving asthma and cough is stronger. Shi Gao, pungent and sweet in flavour and extremely cold in nature, acts against excessive heat in Yang Ming channel. Xing Ren, with bitter taste and warm property, helps to move the Lung-qi to the lower part of the body. Huang Qin clears out stagnated heat in the half interior and removes pathogenic factors from Shao Yang channels. Zhi Mu, which is bitter in taste and cold moist in nature, serves to strengthen the action of Shi Gao. Ting Li Zi, pungent and bitter in flavour, very cold in property, removes heat from the Lungs, and relieves asthma. Zhe Bei Mu, bitter in flavor and cold in property, has a strong activity of cleansing heat phlegm away and dissolving accumulation. Pu Gong Ying, bitter in flavor and sweet cold in property, acts on Liver and Stomach channels to clear heat and detoxicate, subdue swelling and dissolve lumps. Chong Lou, bitter in flavor and a little cold in property, acts on Liver to clear heat, detoxicate, subdue swelling, kills pain and relieve convulsion. Dan Pi has the effect of cooling the blood and removing latent heat from the body’s Yin system. Chi Shao removes pathogenic heat from the blood, dissipates blood stasis and relieves pain.

2) The formula is intended to do five therapeutic principles: First, it clears cough and asthmatic cough due to wind-heat. Second, it clears pathogenic heat in the qi system. Third, it has strong emphasis on removing phlegm heat. Fourth, that’s to detox and finally fifth, to cool the blood in the Yin system. This syndrome is definitely more serious and a step further toward deterioration in terms of prognosis. From the point of view of conventional medicine, the symptoms can be similar to that of pneumonia.

5.4.1.4)
Syndrome: Internal shut-down; external collapse
Symptoms: High or low fever, cough, asthmatic short breath, cold limbs, cold sweat, dark purplish finger nails and lips, with deep and fine or non-existing pulse.
Mechanism: Further sinking of toxins, collapse of qi, Yin and Yang.
Therapeutic principles: Strengthens the essential qi to rescue from collapse

Basic formula (Ingredients) & reference dosage:
No. 1) 生晒参15g (Sheng Shai Shen, Sun-dried ginseng, Radix Ginseng);
No. 2) 麦冬15g (Mai Dong, Maidong, Ophiopogon root, Radix Opiopogonis);
No. 3) 五味子10g (Wu Wei Zi, Wuweizi, Schisandra fruit, Fructus Schisandrae);
No. 4) 炮附子10g先下(Boiled first) (Pao Fu Zi, Prepared Fu Zi, Prepared lateral root of Aconite, Radix Aconiti Lateralis Praeparata);
No. 5) 干姜10g (Gan Jiang, Ganjiang, Dried ginger, Rhizoma Zingiberis);
No. 6) 山萸肉30g (Shan Yu Rou, Shanyurou, or 山茱萸, Shan Zhu Yu, Shanzhuyu, Dogwood fruit, Fructus Corni);
No. 7) 炙甘草6g (Honey-baked Gan Cao, Zhi Gancao, Honey-baked licorice root, Radix Glycyrrhizae Praeparata)

Modifications: For severe sweating, add 煅龙骨(Duan Long Gu, Calcined longgu, Dragon’s bone, Os Craconis Fossilia), 煅牡蛎(Duan Mu Li, Calcined muli, Oyster shell, Concha Ostreae). For abundance of phlegm, sputum in throat, greasy coat on tongue, add 金荞麦(Jin Qiao Mai, Jinqiaomai, Wild Buckwheat Rhizome, Rhizoma Fagopyri Cymosi), 苏合香丸(Su He Xiang Wan, a OTC pill for treatment of cold syndrome of coma, consists of roughly 15 herbs (depending on manufacturers)), 猴枣散(Hou Zao San, a OTC powder for treatment of inner phlegm accumulation, consists of roughly 13 herbs (depending on manufacturers)). For injections the following can be selectively used (based on syndrome differentiation): 醒脑静注射液(Xingnaojing Injection), 生脉注射液(Shengmai Injection), 参麦注射液(Shenmai injection), 参附注射液(Shenfu injection), 血必净注射液(Xuebijing injection) and so on.

John’s comments:
1) The formula is a combination of 生脉散(Sheng Mai San, a powder formula for the treatment of impairment of both qi and Yin manifested by short breath, spontaneous perspiration, exhaustion and faint pulse, consists of 3 herbs) and 四逆汤(Si Ni Tang, a decoction formula for the treatment of syndrome of insufficiency of Yang manifested by cold limbs, intolerance to cold, diarrhea, cold-pain of abdomen, mental fatigue and sleepiness, pale complexion and profuse sweat, consists of 3 herbs) with modifications. Sheng Shai Shen (A type of Chinese/Korean ginseng which has been sun-dried) is sweet in flavor and warm in property, acts to replenish qi and promote the production of body fluid, and invigorates primordial qi. Mai Dong, sweet in flavor and cold in property, is used to tonify Yin and promote body fluid production, clear away deficient heat to get rid of restlessness. Wu Wei Zi, sour in flavor and warm in nature, is used for astringing the Lungs to stop sweat. Fu Zi, pungent and hot in the extreme, acts on channels of the Heart, Kidneys and Spleen, helping to warm the Yang and qi and recuperate the depleted Yang to rescue from collapse. Gan Jiang, functions in warming Yang of the middle portion and eliminating interior cold. Therefore it’s suitable for vomiting and diarrhea due to cold of the insufficiency type. Shan Zhu Yu, sour in flavor and slightly warm in property, induces astringency to arrest excessive loss of body fluid. Gan Cao, in honey-baked form, strengthens the Spleen and replenishes qi. It is used in assisting Fu Zi to recuperate depleted Yang and promote blood circulation, in assisting Gan Jiang in warming and restoring Yang of the middle portion, in reducing toxin of Fu Zi, in relieving the extremely pungent property of Fu Zi and Gan Jiang so as to make it possible to warm Yang and remove Yin cold without injuring Yin fluid.

2) The formula achieves the result of replenishing qi, warming the Yang energy and astringing Yin. This stage is of the extreme one as the patient has exhausted the body’s qi, Yin fluid and Yang energy during the course of battle with the pathogenic factors. The first priority is to quickly replenish qi, recuperate Yang and promote body fluid production. The second direction is to astringe further exhaustion through excessive perspiration.



Postscript:
I have written on the general applications of traditional Chinese medicine in treating Avian/Bird Flu related symptoms. Some advantages of TCM have been outlined. With the ever increasing threat of human-to-human pandemic I see a need in better awareness of using traditional medicine to reach wider scope of people.

One of the advantages of using Chinese herbs is that the patient, having flu-like, or pneumonia-like symptoms, who may or may not be Bird Flu virus related, can immediately take Chinese herbs once his or her syndrome is properly diagnosed with TCM diagnostic method. The diagnostic method doesn’t rely on availability of test kits, machines, and can be done in 10 minutes. Of course, a properly trained TCM physician has to do the job in diagnosing. In the case of suspected Bird Flu, medical personnel can be trained to recognize the most prominent features of identifying the commonly manifested different syndromes.

There are purposes for this article:
1) To outline the different syndromes manifested by human beings infected by Bird Flu virus. There are of course some other syndromes which can share certain similarities to that of this policy. There are at least two policies which have been translated into or written in English: (1) The policy issued by 441-443 of issue No. 6, 2005 of 天津中医药 Tian Jin Zhong Yi Yao (Tianjin Chinese Medicine & Medicinals) journal, translated by Bob Flaws and; (2) “The potential Avian Flu epidemic” by Jake Paul Fratkin, April, 2006 . They are very good references; they would have been better if elaborations and explanations were given.
2) To explain and elaborate how different herbs, with different properties, flavours, channel tropism, and effects are applied cohesively into a formula that works hand-in-hand to treat a particular syndrome. There are certainly not many writings focus on how herbs actually work on our human bodies.
3) As mentioned above, to emphasize how Chinese herbs can be applied with or without knowing the existence of H5N1 virus. By proper diagnosis of syndromes based on many symptoms/manifestations, a herbal formula can be custom-tailored for treatment.

Over-The-Counter Prescriptions:
Another section of the article, section 5.4.2, focuses on the application of OTCs (Over-The-Counter) according to various syndromes. There are six categories of the OTCs, in the forms of pills, boluses, oral solutions, powders and injections. The categories are: 1)解表清热(Jie Biao Qing Re, Exterior-relieving and heat-clearing, 3 OTCs suggested); 2)清热解毒(Qing Re Jie Du, Heat-clearing and toxins-clearing, 4 OTCs suggested); 3)清热开窍化瘀(Qing Re Kai Qiao Hua Yu, Heat-clearing, resuscitation and clearing blood stasis, 6 OTCs suggested); 4)清热祛湿(Qing Re Qu Shi, Heat-clearing and dampness-removing, 2 OTCs suggested); 5)止咳化痰平喘(Zhi Ke Hua Tan Ping Chuan, Cough-arresting, phlegm-resolving and asthma-relieving, 4 OTCs suggested); 6)益气固脱(Yi Qi Gu Tuo, Qi-supplementing and exhaustion-astringing, 3 OTCs suggested). They can be convenient in prevention as well as treatments at various stages. I do not translate nor elaborate on them because these OTCs are not normally available outside China.

Notes:
1) The modifications to the suggested formulae must be based on differentiation of syndromes, i.e. taking into accounts the properties, flavours and channel tropism of the herbs.
2) Directions: All the ingredients are to be decocted in water for oral dose. Modern form of herbal preparation includes fine powder extracted from individual herbs; without the need for inconvenient decoction.
3) Capitalization of the first letter of internal organs in this writing refers to the channels/systems/organs; not just the physical organs alone.

References and more information:
1) Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China: www.moh.gov.cn
2) 人禽流感诊疗方案(2005版修订版); issued on November 23rd, 2005, by the Ministry of Health, People’s Republic of China
3) World Health Organization, WHO’s perspectives: Avian Influenza: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/
4) The Potential Avian Flu Epidemic, By Jake Paul Fratkin; Acupuncture Today, April, 2006, Vol. 07, Issue 04
5) Bird Flu and Chinese Medicine, By Bob Flaws, Acupuncture Today, October, 2006, Vol. 07, Issue 10

Abstracted, translated, compiled and analyzed by John Lew.

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