The Sept. 2020 special edition of the Integrative Medicine Research Journal is dedicated exclusively to COVID-19 research. For your ease of use, we’ve compiled all the articles here in a list. Please click through to each article, all are open access.
Editors Drs. Myeong SooLee, Eunhye Song write: “Given these diverse contributions, this special issue addresses and brings together the current and traditional knowledge and insights together. There is a growing international recognition and collective understanding on the effectiveness of the integrative and complementary medicine for the treatment of COVID-19 as supported by the included articles in this special issue. We are in the middle of rapidly changing pandemic era and hope this special issue would give the readers, including clinicians, researchers, policy makers, and other health professionals, the inspiration for the future researches, decisions, and development of tools to promote public health and combat the novel disease in the pandemic era.”
The following diagram traditional, complementary and integrative medicine evidence map for interventions, outcomes and effects, as outlined in the article, Evidence map on the contributions of traditional, complementary and integrative medicines for health care in times of COVID-19, Article Number 100473.
Integrative medicine for COVID-19: researches and evidence Article Number 100496 Myeong Soo Lee, Eunhye Song |
Enlightenment from clinical trials on Chinese medicine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Article Number 100481 Bo Pang, Junhua Zhang, Myeong Soo Lee, Wenke Zheng |
The pathogenesis and alternative treatment of SARS-CoV2 Article Number 100421 Jun-Yong Choi, Myungsoo Joo |
Review Articles |
Evidence map on the contributions of traditional, complementary and in- tegrative medicines for health care in times of COVID-19 Article Number 100473 Caio Fabio Schlechta Portella, Ricardo Ghelman, Carmen Verônica Mendes Abdala, Mariana Cabral Schveitzer |
Choose your shortcuts wisely: COVID-19 rapid reviews of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine Article Number 100484 Jennifer Hunter, Susan Arentz, Joshua Goldenberg, Guoyan Yang, Jennifer Beardsley, Myeong Soo Lee, Stephen P. Myers |
Bibliometric analysis of researches on traditional Chinese medicine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Article Number 100490 Ke-Lu Yang, Xin-Yao Jin, Ya Gao, Jin Xie, Ming Liu, Jun-Hua Zhang, Jin-Hui Tian |
Characteristics of registered studies for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a systematic review Article Number 100426 Ming Yang, Ya-xi Shang, Zi-yu Tian, Min Xiong, Chun-li Lu, Yue Jiang, Yao Zhang, Ying-ying Zhang, Xin-yan Jin, Qiu-bai Jin, Ying Zhang, Merlin L. Willcox, Jian-ping Liu |
Chinese medical drugs for coronavirus disease 2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis Article Number 100477 Wentai Pang, Zhi Liu, Nan Li, Yuyun Li, Fengwen Yang, Bo Pang, Xinyao Jin, Wenke Zheng, Junhua Zhang |
Herbal medicine for the management of COVID-19 during the medical ob-servation period: a review of guidelines Article Number 100465 Lin Ang, Hye Won Lee, Anna Kim, Myeong Soo Lee |
Home-based traditional Chinese medicine nursing interventions for discharged patients with COVID-19: a rapid review of Chinese guidelines Article Number 100479 Xiao Xu, Ya-Nan Shi, Rong-Yun Wang, Ting Liu, Jingming Xu, Wen Mao, Qiu-Hua Sun |
Could herbal medicine (Soshihotang) be a new treatment option for COVID-19?: a narrative review Article Number 100480 Seungwon Kwon, Wonhaeng Lee, Chul Jin, Insoo Jang, Woo-Sang Jung, Sang-Kwan Moon, Ki-Ho Cho |
Original Articles |
A consensus guideline of herbal medicine for coronavirus disease 2019 Article Number 100470 Beom-Joon Lee, Ju Ah Lee, Kwan-Il Kim, Jun-Yong Choi, Hee-Jae Jung |
Efficacy of herbal medicine (Xuanfei Baidu decoction) combined with conventional drug in treating COVID-19:A pilot randomized clinical trial Article Number 100489 Wu-zhong Xiong, Gang Wang, Juan Du, Wang Ai |
The evaluation of online course of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Medical Bachelor, Bachelor of Surgery international students during the COVID-19 epidemic period Article Number 100449 Qing Zhang, Yi-Jing He, Yu-Hang Zhu, Min-Chen Dai, Man-Man Pan, Jia-Qi Wu, Xian Zhang, Ying-Er Gu, Fang-Fang Wang, Xiang-Rong Xu, Fan Qu |
Investigating effects of healthcare simulation on personal strengths and organizational impacts for healthcare workers during COVID-19 pan- demic: a cross-sectional study Article Number 100476 Victor Kai-Lam Cheung, Eric Hang-Kwong So, George Wing-Yiu Ng, Sze-Sze So, Jeff Leung-Kit Hung, Nam-Hung Chia |
Telemedicine Center of Korean Medicine for treating patients with COVID-19: a retrospective analysis Article Number 100492 Dong-su Kim, Hongmin Chu, Baek Ki Min, YoungJoo Moon, Seongjun Park, Kwangho Kim, Shin-Hyeok Park, Young-Don Kim, Mideok Song, Gun-hee Choi, Eunkyoung Lee |
Tongue features of patients with coronavirus disease 2019: a retrospec- tive cross-sectional study Article Number 100493 Wentai Pang, Dong Zhang, Junhua Zhang, Nan Li, Wenke Zheng, Hui Wang, Chunxiang Liu, Fengwen Yang, Bo Pang |
A cross-sectional study of Persian medicine and the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran: Rumors and recommendations Article Number 100482 Hossein Molavi Vardanjani, Seyed Taghi Heydari, Behzad Dowran, Mehdi Pasalar |
Study Protocol |
Rapid review protocol: Zinc for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 and other coronavirus-related respiratory tract infections Article Number 100457 Jennifer Hunter, Susan Arentz, Joshua Goldenberg, Guoyan Yang, Jennifer Beardsley, Dominik Mertz, Stephen Leeder |
Discussion |
The role of Korean Medicine in the post-COVID-19 era: an online panel discussion part 1 – clinical research Article Number 100478 Seungwon Kwon, Heebum Chung, Younggun Kang, Insoo Jang, Jun-Yong Choi, In Chul Jung, Jae-Woo Park, Hyangsook Lee |
The role of Korean Medicine in the post-COVID-19 era: an online panel discussion part 2 – basic research and education Article Number 100488 Sunju Park, Dae-Hyun Hahm, Myungsoo Joo, Kyongmin Kim, Sunoh Kwon, Hoyoung Choi, Hyangsook Lee |
Commentaries |
COVID-19 – Where should we go now? Article Number 100468 Claire Allen, Ben Heaven Taylor, Chris Winchester |
Is the traditional Chinese herb “Artemisia annua” possible to fight against COVID-19? Article Number 100474 Siukan Law, Albert Wingnang Leung, Chuanshan Xu |
Clinical practice guidelines for COVID-19 Article Number 100487 Yaolong Chen, Xuan Yu |
The potential benefits of Chinese integrative medicine for pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic Article Number 100461 Wei Wang, Qing Zhang, Fan Qu |
Artificial intelligence and COVID-19: A multidisciplinary approach Article Number 100434 Abhimanyu S. Ahuja, Vineet Pasam Reddy, Oge Marques |
The ethics of COVID-19 clinical trials: New considerations in a controver- sial area Article Number 100425 Zhenzhen Han, Junting Wang, Kai Zhang, Qilin Tang |
Allium fistulosum congee as a home remedy to ward off the coronavirus at an early stage Article Number 100463 Elisabeth Hsu, Buxian Zhu, Zewan Ding |