text: The long term consequences of Corona Virus Disease 2019 patients receiving Chinese herbal medicine treatments in acute phase A protocol for systematic review and meta analysis In December 2019 the first case of Corona Virus Disease 2019 COVID 19 associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 viral infection was described in Wuhan Similar to SARS in 2003 COVID 19 also had a lasting impact Approximately 76 of patients discharged after hospitalization for COVID 19 had neurological manifestations which could persist for 6 months and some long term consequences such as the gradual loss of lung function due to pulmonary interstitial fibrosis could have comprehensive effects on daily quality of life for people who were initially believed to have recovered from COVID 19 Our comprehensive search strategy developed in consultation with a research librarian We will search these following electronic databases PubMed Cochrane Library Web of Science ScienceDirect Scopus Google Scholar Embase ProQuest China Science and Technology Journal Database VIP China National Knowledge Infrastructure WANFANG DATA WHO covid 19 website and Centers for Disease Control and the Prevention COVID 19 websites of the United States and China The bias of publication will be confirmed via the P value of Egger test The quality of studies will be evaluated by the Newcastle Ottawa Scale There are no ethical considerations associated with this study protocol for this systematic review which mainly focuses on the examination of secondary data On completion of this analysis we will prepare a manuscript for publication in a peer reviewed medical journal CRD42021258711 