Table 2.

National authorized guidelines for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 with traditional medicine (TM)/herbal medicines (HMs) in China, India and South Korea.

Country	TM system	Guideline	Involvement of TM		Recommendation of HMs
			Prevention/	Diagnosis & treatment	Single herb	Herbal formulae	Registered herbal preparation
			immune enhancement
China	Traditional Chinese medicine	Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19 (Trial 3rd edition)[9]	–	√	–	√	–
		Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19 (Trial 4th edition)[10]	–	√	–	√	√
		Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19 (Trial 5th edition)[11]	–	√	–	√	√
		Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19 (Trial 6th edition)[12]	–	√	–	√	√
		Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19 (Trial 7th edition)[13]	–	√	–	√	√
		Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19 (Trial 8th edition)[14]	–	√	–	√	√
India	Ayurveda	Guidelines for Ayurveda Practitioners for COVID 19[15]	√	√	√	√	√
	Yoga	Guidelines for Yoga Practitioners for COVID 19[16]	√	–	–	–	–
	Unani	Guidelines for Unani Practitioners for COVID 19[17]	√	√	√	√	√
	Siddha	Guidelines for Siddha Practitioners for COVID 19[18]	√	√	√	√	√
	Homoeopathic	Guidelines for Homoeopathic Practitioners for COVID 19[19]	√	√	√	–	–
	Naturopathy	Guidelines for Naturopathy Practitioners for COVID 19[20]	√	√	√	–	–
South Korea	Traditional Korean medicine	COVID-19 Korean medicine clinical guidance (1st edition)[21]	–	√	–	√	√
		COVID-19 Korean medicine clinical guidance (2nd edition)[22]	–	√	–	√	√
		A consensus guideline of herbal medicine for coronavirus disease 2019[23]	–	√	–	√	√
		Guidance on COVID-19 Telemedicine of Korean Medicine[24]	√	√	–	√	√