“…In China, the combination of antiviral treatment, such as Tamiflu and traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs), accounted for a large portion and was regarded to have unique advantage in treating EIDs to improve the clinical therapeutic effectiveness in virus prevention and control . The ShuFengJieDu capsule (SFJD), consisting of Rhizoma polygoni cuspidati, Fructus forsythiae, Radix isatidis, Radix bupleuri, Herba patriniae, Herba verbenae, Rhizoma phragmitis, and Radix glycyrrhizae, is one type of TCM for treating upper respiratory infection (URI) with symptoms of fever, sore throat, headache, and cough. − A clinical study had demonstrated that administration of SFJD abates fever in an average time of 20.5 h, implying that SFJD had rapid and effective antipyretic action . In our previous study, we found that the presence of SFJD increased the partial pressure of oxygen in lung tissue, decreased lactic acid levels, and inhibited inflammatory factors such as IL-1β and TNF-α in acute lung injury rats.…”