Tibetan medicine joins fight against Covid-19 in China's Qinghai

A Buddhist monk performs a religious ceremony inside a tent of a Changpa family in a nomadic camp, some 1km from Korzok village, in the Leh district of Ladakh, Tibet. Authorities are using Tibetan medicine to help fight the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak in northwest China's Qinghai Province. - AFP

XINING:Authorities are using Tibetan medicine to help fight the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak in northwest China's Qinghai Province.

Of Qinghai's 18 confirmed cases, 17 have received treatment involving traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and Tibetan medicine has played an active role in the treatment, said Huang Licheng, an official with the provincial health commission.