This is a household item in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan! Yin Chiao is one the most well known herbal formulation for common cold symptoms like scratchy throat and headache. Good for immediate relief of colds and influenza as well as fever and bodily pains. It is especially good for colds accompanied with sore throats. It contains anti-inflammatory herbs as honeysuckle and forsythia. For best results, use it at as soon as you feel a cold coming on.
Ingredients
Honeysuckle Flower, Forsythia Leaf, Platycodon Root, Mentha Leaf, Lophatherum Leaf, Schizonepeta Leaf, Soybean, Cnidium Root and Burdock. 120 tablets.
Directions
Recommended dosage: 5 tablets each time, 3 times a day. Reduce amount for children.
Feb 04
You can turn to aditionaltr Chinese medicine to great cold related illnesses.
Although it’s the most frequently infectious illness around, there is no cure. Unlike its cousin pneumonia, which kills more than 2 million people annually, a cold is fairly benign unless you count the aches, raspy throat, stuffy nose, chapped lips and spot-on sounding seal barks. And to everyone’s regret, with more than 200 viruses changing the makeup of a cold, the discovery of a vaccine has so far proved fruitless.
A generation ago, treating a cold meant taking two aspirin, plenty of liquids and bed rest. Now the multiple varieties of cold medicines stretches along the length of the aisle in the drugstore. Like a Chinese takeout, there are different combinations of medicines to treat specific symptoms you’re saddled with.
Mar 05
Chinese medicine can protect you against cold and flu without side effects; which Western medicine is not able to do.
Cold and flu season is upon us. Traditional Chinese Medicine has effective time-tested techniques which boost immunity and protect us from colds or the flu. Points can be needled and herbal formulas can be given to balance the body’s energy, strengthen the body and even speed recovery if one does come down with symptoms.
In Chinese medicine colds and flu are considered to be an external pathogen invading the body. When our body`s energy, or qi, is strong we are able to fight off these pathogens. If our qi is weak we come down with symptoms of cold and flu: headache, chills, fever, body aches, cough, and sore throat.
Dec 29
Traditional Chinese Medicine can offer relief from winter cold, as this article indicates.
As brisk winter weather descends on the capital, the cold and flu season is in full swing.
Dr Luke Cheng, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) expert at the United Family Hospital in Beijing, offers some homegrown advice on how to use TCM to battle the winter woes.
Body aches and pains are one of the many symptoms brought on by the winter cold, but they don’t have to be debilitating.
Cupping.Stepping outside the realm of herbal remedies, TCM therapies can be equally effective as oral medicines for treating cold/flu symptoms, Cheng said.
Techniques such as TCM massage, pressure point therapy and cupping, work wonders to relieve a sore body suffering from the cold or flu.
Dec 07
If you are suffering from cold, you should consider using Chinese herbs as an alternative to get rid of your cold.
Dear Dr. Peg,
It seems like everyone I know has a cold. Is there anything I can do so that I don’t get sick too? Signed, Stuffy.Dear Stuffy,
Are you related to Sneezy, Coughy, Drippy, Hacky, Achey and Hoarse? Don’t tell me; brothers, right? Have you guys been sharing the apple that old lady brought to the cottage? No wonder you’re all sick.
Yes, there are things you can do.First things first: basic body maintenance. Get enough sleep. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables and drink plenty of water. Exercise regularly. Don’t party too hard. Your body’s immune system can fight off most colds in a matter of days, but it needs basic TLC in order to function well.
Next, think about how colds happen.A cold is caused by one of more than 200 different viruses. A virus is a kind of germ, and cold viruses are contagious. The virus is passed from person to person in droplets of respiratory secretions, aka spit and snot.
Nov 25
China and Singapore are using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to ward off H1N1. DAAN’s Immune Booster can help you bolster your immunity and protect you against cold and flu.
PUTRAJAYA: The government may use traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to fight the infectious influenza A (H1N1).
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said a working group with the health authorities in China had been formed after it was found that China’s usage of TCM was successful in preventing the spread of flu.
“Apparently, Chinese medicine can prevent H1N1. They say a lot of work has been put into the research and application of Chinese medicine in H1N1.
“I will be looking into it and obtain details from China on how to do it.”
He added that they would be using the research that the Chinese had undertaken to apply it to Malaysia.
