2. Scientific combination is vital and beneficial
Currently, a new paradigm of self-help traditional Chinese medicine
(TCM) prescription was created during the early COVID-19 pandemic
(2020), and the novel theory and fresh program of “TCM Hot Pot”
consists of “Bark-Flower-Fruit-Grass-Leaf-Nucleolus(seed)-Root”
[BFFGLNR] [2]. Due to the characteristic advantages, more easy
to learn and use, this discovery has won wide recognition and praise
from medical peers. In fact, the innovative “TCM Hot Pot” has become a
new milestone in the medical field, and will better serve global
health. Moreover, when a combination of “TCM Hot Pot” with “the magic
polypill”, it will become all-round prescription, and people will no
longer be afraid of the COVID-19 pandemic and SARS-CoV-2 infection. At
the same time, based on this new combination, novel treatment programs
and agents could be developed for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), such as
“Fuya Keli” or “Fuya Decoration” for hypertension, which is relative
to Shensong Yangxin Capsule or “Wenxin Keli” for arrhythmia [3,4],
“Tongxinluo Capsule” for coronary heart disease [5], and “Qili
Qiangxin Capsule” for chronic heart failure [6].
Generally speaking, on the one hand, the TCM prescription itself is
composed of several to dozens of herbs, and the names of many famous
clinical trials were combined, such as the CAST trial [7], the
SPRINT trial [8], and the HOPE-3 trial [9]. On the other hand,
many novel technologies and therapies in the biomedical field are also
combined, and there are some classical examples in both major
non-communicable diseases (mNCDs) including CVD, diabetes, and cancer,
and major infectious diseases (mIDs) including Helicobacter pylori (HP),
tuberculosis (TB), human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV), and COVID
infection. For example, new “four-combined treatment, FCT” or
“quadruple treatment” for chronic heart failure, “triple-combination
therapy, TCT” for eradicating Hp infection in chronic gastritis and
peptic ulcer as well as the famous “cocktail therapy” for
AIDS. Therefore, scientific combinations are vital and beneficial to
better efficacy in clinical medicine.