Pondering over the Outbreak of COVID-19 from the Perspective of Medicine of Jingfang

COVID-19 outbroke in Chinese Wuhan municipality at the end of 2019. The author has pondered over it from the perspective of Medicine of Jingfang. It was hold that although traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) just had vague definition of COVID-19， it could not affect the application of precise treatment according to TCM principle of "The prescription is in the light of the symptom". Jingfang has extended over thousands of years and ancient doctors accumulated profound clinical experience of treating seasonal febrile diseases in the long term clinical practice. Therefore， it is feasible to put forward classical prescriptions to treat COVID-19 based on the principle of prescriptions corresponding to syndromes， Modified Xiaochaihu decoction can be applied in accordance with individualized treatment. In clinics， it is essential to prescribe not only for an individual， but also for the population. It is a quite urgent research task to find out appropriate mass formula. Hence， Jingfang Baidu powder and Shishen decoction were proposed as the preventive formula for the population combined with therapeutic methods varying in each individual， like reinforcing method or dispelling therapy.