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July 2, 2009 / 4:41 PM

China: Traditional medicine for swine flu

Chinese walk past one of the thousands of public notices informing locals on how to protect themselves against the possibility of being infected with the H1NI strain of the swine flu in Beijing on May 13, 2009. China and Hong Kong both reported their second confirmed cases of swine flu this week. In mainland China, a 19-year-old student identified only by the surname Lu reported his symptoms to health authorities by telephone Monday night while he was aboard a train from Beijing to his home province of Shandong, according to the Health Ministry. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)

Chinese walk past one of the thousands of public notices informing locals on how to protect themselves against the possibility of being infected with the H1NI strain of the swine flu in Beijing on May 13, 2009. China and Hong Kong both reported their second confirmed cases of swine flu this week. In mainland China, a 19-year-old student identified only by the surname Lu reported his symptoms to health authorities by telephone Monday night while he was aboard a train from Beijing to his home province of Shandong, according to the Health Ministry. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver) | License Photo

BEIJING, July 2 (UPI) -- Beijing's municipal health department says some influenza A H1N1 patients have been treated using traditional Chinese medicine.

The Beijing Health Bureau said as of Thursday, eight of 17 flu patients handpicked to receive the treatment using 5,000-year-old traditional Chinese medicine were fully recovered, China Daily reported.

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The non-Tamiflu medication has shown great promise for the remaining nine recovering patients, officials of the Beijing Health Bureau said.

The Ministry of Health said nearly 90 percent of the influenza A H1N1 patients in China have been treated with a combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.

There were 1,518 laboratory-confirmed cases H1N1, also called swine flu, and no deaths reported to the World Health Organization by Chinese officials, statistics posted on the WHO Web site indicated.

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