Ms. Chen, 29, is one of the many people to suffer lingering symptoms long after being infected with COVID-19. After the virus seemingly cleared her system, she was left without a sense of smell and she continued to tire easily.
Dr. Lee Choi-Keung, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) physician at Taiwan Jinhe Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, found that Ms. Chen had a thick tongue coating and a weak spleen and stomach. Dr. Lee prescribed Xanthii fructus powder, supplemented with Lycium formula, Acori tatarinowii rhizoma, and Asari radix et rhizoma for resolving phlegm and warming the lungs.
