Doctor of acupuncture and herbal medicine; Integrative oncology(acupuncture); Author; Researching APC dysfunction in chronic illness; Long Covid since 2020
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Lingering pathogens have been a big part of Chinese medicine, documented as early as 2,000 B.C. So much of the medicine operates around the interstices, ecapsulated spaces, and empirical evidence that lingering pathogens are not considered special or even rare.
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“Everyone else has moved on” is not an argument against disability rights. Those rights exist precisely because social consensus has historically been a terrible safeguard against ableism and eugenics.
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All the responses to my posts about ableism are people attacking my profession. The overlap isn’t subtle: contempt for disability and reflexive contempt for non-Western knowledge share a violently colonial worldview.
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Product alert for my European friends. Mycomedica has a line of "Gu Syndrome" tinctures based on Su He Tang for Lingering Pathogenic Illnesses:
mycomedica.eu/eshop-070-klad…
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One of the greatest double standards is treating SARS-CoV-2 as a personal choice while treating HIV prevention as a collective responsibility. If you don’t see how that is a capitalist psy-op, I don’t know what to tell you.
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Democide does not begin in camps. It begins when a society learns to experience a group of human beings as a burden - and calls their exclusion, dismissal, and disposal reasonable. “Back to Normal” is and was a democide against medically vulnerable people. There is no question about it.
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“People with access needs are wreckers. We need to purge them from Leftist organizing to grow our ranks.”
Listen to yourselves.
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“COVID-conscious people are right, they just communicate their needs wrong” is one way of saying: I was comfortable with disabled people until accommodating them required something from me.
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I wonder how many people have Long Covid but refuse to admit it due to internalized hatred of disabled people.
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I went to a DSA healthcare working group meeting in 2016 in Chicago. Half of the speakers were disabled folks calling out everyone’s ableism and that is precisely what a healthcare working group meeting should be. You, as a supposed socialist, should not be comfortable with the fact that disabled folks can be paid subminimum wages or that healthcare can be rationed away from them. Those things should upset you. Fight for free healthcare and higher wages for you and your buddies but don’t get mad when disabled people school you on socialism/communism.
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“The Left will grow so much faster once we start purging everyone who makes us uncomfortable.”
- cis white bro “Leftist” politically aligned with Joe Rogan and Ted Cruz
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Classical Chinese Medicine for Long Covid and ME
Part 1 - The Classical Frame
Long Covid and ME are modern examples of a disease category Chinese medicine has treated for roughly four thousand years. The concept of "lurking" and "lingering" pathogens (伏邪, fú xié) appears in the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen, the Shang Han Lun, and the Wen Re Lun, and was formalized by Ye Tian Shi and the Warm School. The classical definition is precise: an injury to the immune system from which the patient does not recover, leading to a deep-seated lurking heat - not necessarily an active infection, but a state of incomplete resolution. The diagnostic anchor is Zhang Zhongjing's principle in the Jin Gui Yao Lue: illnesses that do not resolve must be treated as though the evils still remain within. The core treatment principle is tonify to expel - tonifying Qi and Yin while venting through the pores, bowels, and urination with salty, pungent, and sweet herbs - with the explicit caution that cold and overly bitter medicinals lodge the pathogen deeper in chronically ill patients.
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Part 13 - The Honest Bottom Line
The signal is real but modest: specific protocols - Qingjin Yiqi granules, Ludangshen oral liquid, Bufei Huoxue capsules, Sijunzi decoction, Huangqi injection, and the qi-tonifying formulas that recur across China, Japan, and Korea (Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang / Bojungikgi-tang / hochuekkito) - show genuine effects, strongest on fatigue, chest tightness, insomnia, depression, and anxiety. The evidence is still catching up: Long Covid–specific, high-quality completed trials remain scarce, and much of what is known is extrapolated from ME and/or post-viral fatigue studies. The classical model was built for this; the trials are now catching up to it.
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References by Topic(DOIs for concision):
Long Covid - Meta-Analyses / Systematic Reviews
10.1186/s12967-025-06830-7
10.1016/j.joim.2025.01.001
10.1371/journal.pone.0300896
Long Covid - Individual Trials
10.1111/jebm.12465
10.1186/s13020-022-00602-x
10.1016/j.jep.2021.114830
Long Covid - Kampo Medicine (Japan)
10.3390/medicina58060730
10.3390/jcm14041234
Long Covid - Korean Evidence
10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24601
10.1038/s41597-025-04510-1
Long Covid - Registered Trials & Protocols
10.1016/j.conctc.2025.101456
10.2196/42551
ME Research
10.1016/j.phymed.2024.155636
Acupuncture / Moxibustion
10.1016/j.eujim.2025.102556
10.1097/MD.0000000000029310
10.1097/MD.0000000000042111
10.1007/s11655-021-3301-1
Adaptogens - Single-Herb Evidence
10.3390/ph15040417
Brain Fog
10.1159/000543123
Blood Stasis
10.1042/BCJ20220016
10.1042/BCJ20230041
10.3390/ph18050712
10.3390/ph15080931
10.1055/s-0043-1769014
10.1016/j.tem.2023.02.001
10.20944/preprints202506.2239.v1
10.20944/preprints202508.1557.v1
Molecular Layer
10.1097/HM9.0000000000000034
This thread was informed, in part, by longcovidbot.com
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