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Chinese herbs for cold — How to treat a cold rapid with natural medicine

January 05, 2020

Chinese herbs for cold

Black soy prepared

Scientific name: Semen Sojae

Chinese name: Dan Dou Chi 淡豆豉

Plant parts used and preparation: Cook the water 70-100 g SANG YE and QING HAO, filter; mix the filtrate with 1 kg of washed black soybeans; steaming ; put in a mat and cover with SANG YE QING HAO previously cooked; let simmer until the appearance of yellow hairs; wash with clean water; put soybeans in a container; seal the récipiant, ferment 15-21 days; soybeans out of the container; dry in the sun.

This herb has influences on the human body: lung and stomach meridians

Flavour: spicy, sweet, (slightly bitter)

Nature: fresh

Health Effects:

-eliminates anxiety

– Cold: fear of cold, fever, headache, body pain (with Chinese chives CONG BAI)

– Febrile Diseases (RE BING) at the final stage or the stage of convalescence (slight fever, chest tightness, burning sensation and epigastric discomfort, dysphoria / agitation anxiety, insomnia): cook DOU CHI decoction with ZHI ZI (the fruit the Gardenia).

Reed

Scientific name: Rhizoma phragmitis

Chinese name: Lu Gen 芦根

Plant parts used: Rhizome, rid of fibrous roots and its outer casing, cleaned, dried in the sun, cut into pieces. (Late spring, early summer and autumn).

This herb has influences on the human body: lung and stomach meridians

Flavor: sweet

Nature: Cold

Health Effects :

– Removes heat, generates body fluids and stop thirst

-calmer anxious agitation

– Clarify the lungs and stop coughing

– Clarify the stomach and stop vomiting

– Disperse the toxin and promote breakouts

– Encourage the elimination of humidity

– Febrile diseases with liquid damage, dry tongue with little liquid

– Lung-Heat: cough, thick yellow sputum and, lung abscess cough with purulent sputum and foul smelling sputum or blood-streaked

– Initial stage of disease lukewarm fever, cough and sore throat; By Wind Cold Heat: cough, dry tongue and mouth, throat pain

– Heat of the Stomach: nausea, vomiting, belching, regurgitation: Only in decoction, to drink frequently, or in combination with other plants

– Initial measles with late onset of eruptions Stadium, or incompletely outputs eruptions: Alone or with other products that disperse the toxin and promote breakouts

Modern pharmacological actions:

– Action antipyretic;

– Antiemetic Action;

– Soothing thirst.

Spring onion

Scientific name: Bulbus allii Fistulosi

Chinese name: Cong Bai 葱白 (蔥白)

Parts of the plant used: the white part of the stem near the bulb. Use fresh.

This herb has influences on the human body: lung and stomach meridians.

Taste: Spicy

Nature: warm

Health Effects :

– Slight cold

– sudorific

– Disperses cold

– Eliminates the toxin

– Pain and epigastric or abdominal distension by Cold retention and stagnation of energy, or dysuria by hypofunction of the Bladder: CHAO CONG BAI apply on the navel or lower abdomen.

– Suppurative skin infections, anthrax, abscesses: CONG BAI mix with honey, apply on the affected area.