The Effects of Chinese Medicine Lianhua Qingwen on Inhibiting the Replication of Covid-19 Virus

Hongzhu Ji

2022

Abstract

Lianhua Qingwen, a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, has been used to treat fever and respiratory infections for many years including SARS. Recent studies have shown that it can also be used as a COVID-19 treatment. The goal of this work is to test if Lianhua Qingwen fights against coronavirus by reducing virus replication? The antiviral activity of Lianhua Qingwen against SARS-CoV-2 was assessed in infected cells from patients using CPE assay and plaque reduction assay. There are six possible results: they are based on if Lianhua Qingwen shows positive, no, or negative inhibition on the CPE inhibition assay and weather it gives us an inhibitory effect on the formation of plaque of the virus or not, and we will say Lianhua Qingwen significantly inhibited SARS-CoV-2 replication in cells which partially supports our hypothesis, or it partly supports our hypothesis and these results wouldn’t give a clear answer to our research question, or it contradicts our hypothesis. The result of our study will provide important information for how Lianhua Qingwen helps to treat COVID-19, and it will help us with controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Future studies should focus on more potential effects of Lianhua Qingwen and vivo experiment is needed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ji H. (2022). The Effects of Chinese Medicine Lianhua Qingwen on Inhibiting the Replication of Covid-19 Virus. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH, ISBN 978-989-758-596-8, pages 284-288. DOI: 10.5220/0011292900003438

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ichih22,
author={Hongzhu Ji},
title={The Effects of Chinese Medicine Lianhua Qingwen on Inhibiting the Replication of Covid-19 Virus},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH,},
year={2022},
pages={284-288},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011292900003438},
isbn={978-989-758-596-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH,
TI - The Effects of Chinese Medicine Lianhua Qingwen on Inhibiting the Replication of Covid-19 Virus
SN - 978-989-758-596-8
AU - Ji H.
PY - 2022
SP - 284
EP - 288
DO - 10.5220/0011292900003438