Identifying potential treatments of COVID-19 from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) by using a data-driven approach.

ABSTRACT:

Ethnopharmacological relevance

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been widely used as an approach worldwide. Chinese Medicines (CMs) had been used to treat and prevent viral infection pneumonia diseases for thousands of years and had accumulated a large number of clinical experiences and effective prescriptions.

Aim of the study

This research aimed to systematically excavate the classical prescriptions of Chinese Medicine (CM), which have been used to prevent and treat Pestilence (Wenbing, Wenyi, Shiyi or Yibing) for long history in China, to obtain the potential prescriptions and ingredients to alternatively treat COVID-19.

Materials and methods

We developed the screening system based on data mining, molecular docking and network pharmacology. Data mining and ass

SUBMITTER: Ren X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7196535 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature