Hydrogen and Heat Therapies Proposed as Safe COVID-19 Treatments
Non-Drug Therapy to Combat Coronavirus
Research hubs: Respiratory System
- Evidence type
- Review or commentary
- Authors
- Shouguo Wang, Wei Liu, Yahui Song, Tao Xia, Xianqin Lu, Li Song, Qingwei Li, Jian Sun, Xuemiao Yin, Xianqi Feng, Yunjun Yang, Tao Sun
- Journal
- Open Journal of Regenerative Medicine
- Year
- 2020
- Study Type
- clinical
- Peer Reviewed
- Yes
- Cited by
- 4 (OpenAlex, as of November 2026)
- Country
- China
TL;DR
Scientists think heat-based treatments like infrared therapy and hydrogen might help fight coronavirus without using drugs, and these methods could be cheaper and safer than medicine—but they need to actually test them to make sure they really work.
Summary
A team of Chinese researchers published a proposal for non-drug COVID-19 treatments, including hydrogen therapy, far-infrared therapy, thermal treatments, ozone therapy, and plasma therapy. They argue these approaches exploit the coronavirus's sensitivity to heat and offer advantages over pharmaceutical drugs: no side effects, high benefit-to-risk ratios, user-friendly application, and low costs. However, this was a theoretical proposal rather than an actual clinical study. The authors emphasized the urgent need for clinical trials to establish the safety and effectiveness of these proposed therapeutic methods before widespread implementation.
Abstract (excerpt)
Novel coronavirus is threatening the health of people all over the world and all possible treatment strategies are in urgent. The sensitive of virus to heat proposed temperature treatment as an effective method against coronavirus. Here, we proposed several non-drug therapies including…