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The Sheng Tuo Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Jiaxing, East China's Zhejiang province, has distributed home-made TCM sachets to frontline workers amid the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, according to recent local media reports.

In order to contribute to the fight against the epidemic, Sheng Tuo medical workers began filling sachets with wrinkled gianthyssop herbs, rhizoma acori graminei, wormwood, radix angelicae, fructus frosythiae, astragalus membranaceus, and two other types of TCM.

It took just one night for Sheng Tuo's medical workers to produce more than 1,500 sachets, which were then distributed to community workers, police officers, sanitation workers, and journalists.

To wear a TCM sachet is an external application of TCM in China and can help prevent the invasion of exogenous pathogenic factors.

The intent is to cause an immune reaction and boost the immunity of the mucous membrane by stimulating it, particularly respiratory and oral mucosa, with aromatic herbs.

The volatile ingredients of aromatic herbs in the sachet will spread throughout the entire body by following the transmission route of human meridians to dredge the meridians and regulate people's Qi and blood.

The idea of Qi, or "vital energy", is one of the most fundamental theories behind TCM. It is believed to flows through meridians in human bodies.

Medical worker from the Sheng Tuo Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Jiaxing, East China's Zhejiang province, distributes home-made TCM sachets to a community worker. [Photo/cnjxol.com]

Medical worker from the Sheng Tuo Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine distributes home-made TCM sachets to sanitation workers. [Photo/cnjxol.com]