Q Children at daycare get a lot of group infections. How much can herbal medicine prevent that?
A Even in a group living environment, a child with strong defensive qi differs in how often they develop illness and how severe the symptoms are, even when exposed to the same virus.
Detailed Answer
Even when group infections are going around at a daycare or kindergarten, the number of times each child catches a cold varies greatly. Korean medicine explains this difference by the strength of the defensive qi. There are many clinical cases in which the frequency of colds decreased significantly during a 3 to 6 month follow-up after treatment to strengthen the defensive qi.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
For the first month or two, we use herbal medicine to aid recovery even in the middle of a cold, and once the immune foundation is reasonably established, we proceed in a direction where the frequency of colds itself decreases. We recommend consistent management of 3 months or more rather than short-term treatment.
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