Herbal Medicine Jing Guan Fang Alleviates COVID-19 Severity in Cancer Patients: Case Reports

中藥淨冠方對新冠肺炎之癌症病人病情緩解－病例報告

I-Lun Chen(陳怡倫) ； Renn-Shiuan Wei(魏任宣) ； Chung-Hua Hsu(許中華)

《北市醫學雜誌》 22卷1期 (2025/03) Pp. 97-102

https://doi.org/10.6200/TCMJ.202503_22(1).0009

摘要

Although the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has tended to be influenza-liked, the infection remains a significant hazard to cancer patients. This paper presents three cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in 2021 who received the herbal medicine Jing Guan Fang (JGF) alongside Western medicine during isolation or hospitalization. The treatment effects of the herbal medicine were evaluated. The patients aged between 40 and 60 years. Two of them were stage II breast cancer patients, and one was a stage IV lung cancer patient. Their COVID-19 severity ranged from mild to moderate, and the initial symptoms included fever, anosmia, dyspnea, and cough. Following the administration of JGF, their symptoms did not deteriorate, and they recovered. These cases showed that early administration of JGF can shorten the hospitalization and clinical course of the infection in cancer patients. We conclude that herbal medicine can help relieve symptoms of COVID-19 infection in cancer patients.

關鍵字

COVID-19 ； herbal medicine ； Jing Guan Fang ； cancer

並列摘要

儘管新冠肺炎感染已趨向流感化，其仍對癌症病人有潛在的危害，本篇研究在2021年疫情爆發時以中藥製劑淨冠方搭配西醫處置，針對三例新冠肺炎隔離或住院之癌症病人治療，以評估中藥之療效。個案年齡介於40至60歲，其中兩位有乳癌第二期病史而另一位則為肺癌第四期。他們新冠肺炎疾病的嚴重度介於輕度至中度，初始症狀包括發燒、嗅覺異常、咳嗽和喘促，在服用了淨冠方後病情皆無惡化並且復原。從病例中觀察到早期給予淨冠方可以縮短住院時間及疾病病程，因此推測中藥可以幫助新冠肺炎感染之癌症病人緩解病情。

並列關鍵字

新冠肺炎 ； 中藥 ； 淨冠方 ； 癌症