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Maybe Chinese Herbs (TCM) do help as NIH studies have shown the herbs can reduce blood clotting.

Will post NIH articles for this thread. (National Institute of Health, USA) https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/

Young, healthy people barely sick with covid-19 are dying from strokes

Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead by strokes. Some didn’t even know they were infected by coronavirus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/

Obviously you have to be careful about the purity of the Chinese Herbs (TCM) but here are a couple NIH articles related to blood clotting. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19526798/

[Chinese Drugs for Supplementing Qi and Activating Blood Circulation in Preventing Deep Venous...

Both the Chinese drugs and anti-coagulation drug can prevent the incidence of DVT effectively, and Chinese herbs are feasible in the prevention of DVT.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19526798/

Must look at the bottom of the article for weaknesses in studies as well. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894226/

Traditional Chinese and western medicine for the prevention of deep venous thrombosis after lower...

Chinese herbal medicine has traditionally been considered to promote blood circulation to remove obstruction in the channels and clear pathogenic heat to drain dampness effects. We conducted this...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894226/

Note—I’m a fan of Chinese medicine.

Not only because I’ve had good experiences,

But bcuz after I started interpreting for a range deaf people I saw the racism/sexism/ableism/capitalism etc embedded into Western medicine.

Not individual doctors/hospitals but w/in the system.

Also, studying colonialism/imperialism in the 1850s

I started picking up on more subtle but insidious ways that the racism and dismissal happened/happens.

Dismissing Chinese medicine so easily is an example of that to me.

Notice that the doctors listed on the 2 NIH studies in this thread have Chinese names.

I hope to one day also see some non-Chinese names on these studies.

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