Ontario Self-assessment for the Novel 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Available ONLINE 新冠病毒在线评估服务

New COVID-19 self-assessment tool developed by Ontario Ministry of Health Posted Mar 15th, 2020.The Ontario Ministry of Health has created a new tool to help people self-assess for COVID-19. Unless you are experiencing an emergency, please use this tool before seeking medical help for possible COVID-19.

The Novel 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19) self-assessment If you think you have coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms or have been in close contact with someone who has it, use this self-assessment to help determine how to seek further care.

 Ontario Online Self-assessment for the Novel 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Also it is mentioned on the website: This information is not intended to provide medical advice.If you have medical questions,consult a health practitioner or call Telehealth Ontario。

Telehealth Ontario: 

1-866-797-0000

Telehealth Ontario is a free service provided by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care that allows Ontario residents to speak to a Registered Nurse with their medical or health questions any time of the day or night.  The service is conveniently offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

新冠病毒（COVID-19）的在线评估服务

安省的网上新冠自我评估链接：

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/self-assessment/#q0


进一步的求助电话（在拨打电话前要先做前面的网上自我评估）：

Telehealth Ontario: 1-866-797-0000 



Telehealth Ontario 是一个安省政府的免费的全天候的Medical Advice服务（一周七天，一天24小时），注册护士会回答相关的问题。

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预防流感新冠病毒食疗方：梨子萝卜干姜汤 Radish Pear Ginger soup to improve immunity power

根据国内在这次抗疫经验的总结，很多中医生推荐了这款简便易做的抗新冠食疗方：

梨子一个，白萝卜一个，炖汤，加干姜粉15克到20克冲服

白萝卜和梨煮水的功效与作用

1、白萝卜梨煮水还能起到杀菌消毒，冬季多饮用的话，还能够预防感冒的发生，所以建议冬天的时候多喝一些白萝卜煮水，能够杀菌，预防感冒。

2、白萝卜梨煮水还能促进人体的消化系统，同时也有很强的消炎的作用，同时也能够增强机体免疫功能，萝卜含丰富的维生素C和微量元素锌，有助于增强机体的免疫功能，提高抗病能力。

3、白萝卜梨煮水可以分解其他食物中的致癌物亚硝胺，从而起到抗癌作用。对治疗胸闷气喘也有很好的帮助。

4、冬季多喝白萝卜梨煮水，能起到化痰降气、止咳平喘的作用。现代人由于营养过剩，不少人属于脾虚湿盛的体质，尤其是经常感冒咳嗽的儿童，典型表现为舌苔厚腻、大便不畅。而经常服用白萝卜梨汤，可以有效地调整人体的脾虚湿盛状态，减少感冒、咳嗽的发生。注意饮用的时候不要加糖为好。

The benefits of white radish pear ginger soup:

1. White radish pear ginger soup can be used for prevent infection. Chinese people like to drink it in winter or flu season for prevent colds and flu. 

2. White radish pear ginger soup can promote the digestive system, with a strong anti-inflammatory effect, can also enhance the body's immune function, radish is rich in vitamin C and trace elements zinc, which helps to enhance our immunity power. 

3. White radish pear ginger soup can break down the carcinogen nitrosamines in other foods, it is very helpful for the treatment of chest tightness cough and asthma.

4. White radish pear ginger soup  can reduce phlegm, relieve cough and asthma. Due to excess nutrition, many people have a spleen deficiency and wet constitution, especially children who often have colds and coughs, which are typically manifested by thick tongue coating and constipation or sticky stool.Taking white radish pear ginger soup can adjust the body's spleen deficiency and dampness, and reduce the occurrence of colds and coughs. DO NOT  add SUGAR in the soup.

中华医药 抗击疫情 甘草干姜汤提高人体免疫力 预防新冠病毒

2020年3月5日，CCTV4播出特别节目“中华医药，抗击疫情”中，报道了河南省许通县人民医院运用纯中医手法成功预防、治疗新冠病毒的事迹。

　　在主持人现场连线通许县人民医院业务院长沈永军，沈院长说：医院自从1月21日晚上接诊了第一例患者后，从1月22号开始，院长就决定给全院医护人员提供“甘草干姜汤”进行预防。并取得了全院1250名员工，全部零感染;就诊患者全部零转院、零死亡、零致残的骄人战绩。

　　为什么“甘草干姜汤”能够有效预防新冠病毒呢?

　　本方用于预防新冠病毒，因其强胸阳同时健脾胃。炙甘草，味甘，补气解毒、止咳平喘;干姜辛温，能温中散寒。二者合用辛甘复阳，能温胸胃之阳、健脾益气、解毒抗疫。因冠状病毒性肺炎，为寒湿疫，甘草干姜汤切中病机，故可提高人体免疫力，用于防治此病。

　　需提醒大家的是：在使用此方时，还需注意有口舌生疮，口干舌燥， 咽喉红肿热痛，胃火亢盛者慎用。同时，禁与海藻、芫花、大戟、甘逐等同用，因其相反。

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On March 5, 2020, CCTV4 broadcast a special program "Chinese Medicine, Fighting the Epidemic", which reported the successful use of pure Chinese medicine to prevent and treat the new coronavirus in the People's Hospital of Xutong County, Henan Province.

At the host's site, he was connected to the business director of Tongxu County People's Hospital, Shen Yongjun. Dean Shen said: Since the hospital received the first patient on the evening of January 21, the president decided to provide this "Chinese licorice Dried Ginger Soup" on January 22 to all the staffs in the hospital for prevention. And it created an impressed record with no infections in 1,250 staffs who working in this hospital; also all the visitors to this hospital with zero transfers, zero deaths, an impressive record.

Chinese licorice, sweet, replenishes qi and detoxifies, relieves cough and relieves asthma; 

Dried ginger is warm, and it can disperse the cold. 

The combination of Xingan and Fuyang can warm the yang of the chest and stomach, strengthen the spleen and invigorate qi, and detoxify and resist epidemics. Because of coronavirus pneumonia, which is a cold and damp epidemic, the licorice dry ginger soup can improve our immunity and has been used in the hospital to prevent coronavirus pneumonia sucessfully. Also the Chinese moxibustion are used popularly in the TCM hospitals in china to prevent the Coronavirus infection. 

In western counties, no many people know about Chinese moxa herbs and moxibustion therapy, but more people know about  the healing power of the essential oil,so the essential oil diffuser will do the same trick when comes to prevent the virus infection. 

More question about Chinese Medicine, please feel free to consult with our Registered Traditional Medicine Practitioner online at www.OrientalAcupuncture.ca

This information is not intended to provide medical advice.If you have medical questions,consult a health practitioner.

What we should do to prevent Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection? Combine the useful eastern and western methods.

Coronavirus worries grow globally as WHO reports more cases outside China. What should we do to prevent this new coronavirus?

About Corona virus infection symptoms：

1. It will first infect the throat, so the throat will have the dry sore throat feeling which will last for 3 to 4 days;

2. Then the virus will blend into the nasal fluid and drips into the trachea and enter the lungs, causing pneumonia. This process will take 5 to 6 days;  

3. With pneumonia, comes high fever and difficulty in breathing. The nasal congestion is not like the normal kind. You will feel like you are drowning in water. 

 If you have traveled to Asia,Iran,Italy or any Coronavirus happened area, within the last two weeks and have any of coughing,fever or flu-likes symptoms, please contact Public Health or call Telehealth Ontario at 1-866-797-0000 for help. or contact emergency department of local hospital.

About the Coronavirus infection prevention: 

The coronavirus - known as COVID-19 - spreads from person to person in close proximity, similar to other respiratory illnesses, such as the flu. It's much easier to spread,and could caused severe Pneumonia.So seriously protect ourselves and our family from coronavirus is very important. 

1. The most common way of getting infected is by touching things in public, so you must wash your hands frequently. The virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 mins, but a lot can happen in those 5-10 mins (you can rub your eyes or pick your nose unwittingly).

2. Except washing your hands frequently, you can gargle with warm salt water or Betadine or Listerine Sore Throat Gargle to eliminate or minimize the germs while they are still in your throat (before dripping down to your lungs). 

3.Wear mask and medical gloves when you go out shopping.

4. Take extra care and drink plenty of water. Take Zinc lozenges with vitamin C and Vitamin E; 

5. Inhale warm steam morning and evening, steaming raises the temperature of lungs,throat and mouth so that if the virus is already there, it gets inactivate due to high temperature.

Chinese  Ancient Herbal Aroma diffusion at home to PREVENT the virus infection also BOOST our immunity power naturally.  

 

TCM herbal remedy could ‘inhibit’ Coronavirus - COVID-19