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China: a site sanctioned for having doubted an anti-Covid-19 treatment based on traditional medicine

2022-08-11T08:08:48.409Z


A popular medical information site in China is banned from publishing after questioning the effectiveness of a treatment for Covid-19...


A popular medical information site in China is banned from publication after questioning the effectiveness of a treatment against Covid-19 based on traditional Chinese medicine, promoted by the authorities.

Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019 called traditional medicine a "

treasure of Chinese civilization

" and instructed that it should have as much influence as modern medicine.

"Violation of laws and regulations"

The supposed virtues of the traditional pharmacopoeia have since been regularly praised by the authorities.

A medicinal liquid based in particular on honeysuckle and apricot seeds, baptized Lianhua Qingwen, had thus been used against Covid-19 during the confinement of Shanghai between the end of March and the beginning of June.

The DXY portal, which offers many health services and has the Chinese internet giant Tencent as a shareholder, then questioned the therapeutic virtues of the remedy, baptized Lianhua Qingwen.

The controversial article has since been deleted by DXY.

But the site is now "

banned from publication

" on at least five of its social networks, due to a "

violation of laws and regulations

", indicates the Weibo account of DXY, without specifying the offense in question.

DXY usually posts several medical articles per day on WeChat messenger.

Since Monday, his accounts are also no longer updated.

Reached by AFP for a request for comment, the Chinese medical information specialist did not immediately respond.

Several countries including the United States have expressed doubts about the effectiveness of Lianhua Qingwen in curing Covid-19, highlighting the lack of scientific evidence.

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In 2003, traditional treatments were widely used in China, in combination with Western drugs, during the SARS epidemic which killed 774 people worldwide, most of them in the country.

In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to the Chinese Tu Youyou was considered a global recognition of traditional pharmacopoeia.

In 2016, Beijing published its first White Paper on traditional medicine, which defends in particular the establishment of specialized centers in developing countries, with the sending of doctors to the key.

Source: lefigaro

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