This combination of two traditional herbs radically improves the fatigue and brain fog of long COVID.
Long COVID is very common, and fatigue and brain fog are two of the most challenging symptoms to live with. There is no established drug treatment for long COVID fatigue. But this new study suggests that there may be a herbal treatment.
This study gave a combination of astragalus and Salvia miltiorrhiza, also known as red sage, Chinese sage, or danshen to 49 people with long COVID who were experiencing severe fatigue or brain fog. Chinese sage is a close relative of the well known western herb sage.
After 4 weeks, there was a significant improvement of about 50% in fatigue, including both physical and mental fatigue. After taking the herbs, people rated their fatigue as improved by 54% and their brain fog by 52%.
They also reported that their quality of life improved by 47%.
The researchers called these improvements both “significant” and “radical.”
Front Pharmacol. 2024;15:1394810.