Various medical disciplines and health specialties have a myriad of promising alternative treatment and recuperation methods. For example:

 

1. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): From the early stage of a serious COVID-19 infection (lungs are cold and wet), to the middle stage (the virus and toxins block the lungs), to the critical stage (internally, the lungs shut down and, externally, respiratory and circulatory failure), to the recovery stage (weak chi on the lungs and spleen), and according to different clinical symptoms and signs, various herbal medications can be separately applied during different stages with varying degrees of efficacy. Some traditional herbal remedies that show promise at treating COVID-19 include yinqiao powder, puji disinfecting beverage, maxingshigan soup, jiuliuping, taste qiang soup, six taste dihuang pills, and pingwei powder. Clinical experiments show that achyranthes bidentata and prunella prunus have the ability to inhibit viral DNA and RNA life cycles, and that schisandra chinensis and polygonum multiflorum can promote the phagocytosis of white blood cells, enhancing lymphocyte transformation, and giving patients’ immune systems a boost in the fight against the novel coronavirus. With thousands of years of accumulated expertise and clinical experiences, TCM and the physicians who practice it should play a significant role in the prevention and treatment of pandemics, regardless of the availability of effective antibiotics or antiviral drugs from mainstream medicine.

2. Gut Regulation: Our lungs and guts are closely related. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that the lungs and large intestines function together in partnership. Natural medicine has long advocated digestive enzymes and probiotics, fasting, and even colon hydrotherapy and detoxification. More recently, western medicine has been conducting ample evidence-based research and in the past decade has begun to accumulate tremendous actionable knowledge of the human gut microbiome, gut-lung axis, gut-brain axis, leaky gut syndrome, and other aspects of the gastrointestinal (GI) system, with the result that western doctors are is acknowledging the link between the GI system and cardiovascular health. Regardless of the school of thought, it is becoming increasingly clear that every person should take steps to actively improve his or her personal gut health, which can both directly and indirectly enhance our immunity and minimize gut abnormality-induced pulmonary dysfunction.

3. Hyperthermia: By elevating body temperature, our blood and lymphatic circulations increase and immunity strengthens. Statistically speaking, some thermotherapy devices (with infrared light emitting specific wavelengths) can significantly increase mitochondrial functions (i.e. Spare Respiratory Capacity, Coupling Efficiency, Bioenergetic Health Index) within 15 minutes, which presumably can be beneficial for health maintenance, body strengthening, disease prevention, and even illness recovery.

4. Others: In addition, there are countless ways to improve our health and prevent "dry wood" physique, such as:

 

a) Healthy Eating: Diet pyramid, nutrition, eating slower, chewing food well before swallowing, fewer meals and/or smaller portions, more vegetable-based diets, intermittent fasting, enzymes, probiotics, fibers;

 

b) Exhilarating Detox: Bowel movements, urination, breathing, sweating, hepatobiliary system, menstruation;

 

c) Upright Spinal Posture: Chiropractic adjustments enable a good spinal alignment, just like a straight & wide freeway, which facilitates optimal transportation and communication effects (across sensory, motor, and autonomic nerves functions as well as meridian systems...etc);

 

d) Active Exercise: Physical exercise (isometric, with equal muscle length, and isotonic, with equal muscle tension), mental exercise (calming, stabilizing, meditation to induce “emptiness” of the mind, reaching a state of selflessness and “oneness” with the universe);

 

e) Sound Sleep;

 

f) Safe Housing: Sound, light, electricity, heat, minimal irradiation and exposure to toxic chemicals;

 

g) Joyfully Being in the Present: Positive thinking, caring more about others, enjoying music, flower essence, essential oils, sunlight and other forms of light.