Ancient Healing: Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Most Japanese senior citizens knew or learned during their childhood

in the school or from their parents or old folks that there were only

404 kinds of illnesses, and they were treated by traditional chinese

herbs from Etchu, Toyama Prefecture in Japan.

 

And yes, these traditional medicines are very effective.

 

I believe that herbs listed below seem to be competitive to modern

medicines available in your neighborhood drugstores.

 

As you know, most modern drugs are from traditional botanical herbs

or known animals. Of course, if you visit Chinese medical herb

stores, you will wonder or somewhat amazed when you see grotesque

appearance of dried sea horse, tortoise, feet of animals, etc.

However, they are also very effective for treatment of modern

diseases.

 

1. MORNING GLORY

 

Morning glory is known by everyone in the world - a very popular

flower that appears in the morning hours and closes toward evening.

Its seed is at right, black and baroque shape. The seed is used to

cure constipation. Crash or grind about 3 pieces of seed and drink

with water.

 

For sting or insect bites, use the green leaves of morning glory.

Mash or grind the leaves with your fingers, and paste it in the

infected area of the skin. It heals very fast.

 

For frostbite or chilblains, keep dried leaves for winter season.

Boil and make something like tea. Wash with the tea-like water for

frostbite-infected skin.

 

2. FIG

 

The fruit can be eaten as is for hemorrhoids treatment. Dried fig

fruits are also effective. You can get white-colored sap (plant

fluid) by breaking the branch of the tree. Apply the sap to the anal

area. You might feel itch for a while, but it will dry and heal.

 

3. LOBSTER

 

Lobster is anywhere in the world, and it is very effective for the

treatment of measles. You can either just eat it or cook with soup.

With the remaining hard shells, crash it and with about a liter of

boiling water until the amount of remaining water is one half. Drink

it, too. Measles will be healed without any complications.

 

4. PLUM

 

Plum is very popular in China, Korea and Japan. Nowadays, you can

find plum fruits anywhere in the world. Plum is known for thousands

of years in China for the treatment of gastroenteritis. In our house,

since the time of my great grandparents, we keep about 10 kilograms

of plum fruit with salt in a big jar for preservation purpose. We

have nearly 100 year-old plum, too. It was preserved by our great

grandparents. As you know me, I am now 70 years old. Wherever I

travel abroad, I carry a pack of plum preserved with me and take a

piece a day to avoid getting stomach troubles as well as avoiding

contamination of toxic matters and bacteria.

 

Plum is generally considered a miracle aid for almost all kinds of

diseases. Plum juice (preserved with salt for several months or

years) is used for treatment of fever and dysentery. Plum juice is

also applicable as an external use for tinea.

 

5. PERSIMMON

 

Truly, sweet persimmon fruit has a lot of medicinal properties. The

calyx of the persimmon fruit where it is connected to the branch of

the tree, can be used to make a calyx tea. You can dry it and keep it

and use it to make a tea. Drinking calyx tea is good for stopping

hiccup;hiccough, and is also good for bed-wetting. The fruit itself

has also the same effect. There are a lot of other uses as well. For

bee stick, paste a grinded astringent persimmon. It's very effective

according to our ancestors.

 

6. CHARRED HAIR

 

For stypsis in stopping bleeding, e.g. hemorrhage including internal

hemorrhage, charred hair is used. For male, use female hair. For

female, use male hair. Especially, a case where the cause of internal

bleeding is unknown, charred hair is very effective according to old

folks. Drink about 3 grams or one teaspoon of charred hair with water.

 

7. CHESTNUT LEAVES

 

For lacquer poisoning and other skin allergies, use chestnut leaves.

Place the chestnut leaves to boiling water and use it to wash the

skin several times a day.

 

8. DANDELION

 

Dandelion has several medicinal uses. All parts of the plant, from

root to flower, are edible and can be eaten in various forms like

soup and salad. Its medicinal uses include treatment for gastric

ulcer or gastritis, inflammation of the stomach, gastric dilatation,

gastric catarrh, stomach cramps, constipation, and liver diseases.

 

9. PAIN PATCH

 

If you talk about plaster ointment or pain relief patch, there's a

variety of brands that can be found. Whether it's for stiff

shoulders, swelling, a Band-Aid®, or a nicotine patch for smokers,

there's a lot of them.

 

But here's a good one for stiff shoulders and neck and especially for

swelling and pain. Prepare any wheat flour or a baking powder and

vinegar, and mix them to make a paste. Place it to the surface of any

paper. Then, just patch it to your shoulders, neck or other swollen

parts of your body.

 

If you like to give it a menthol (methyl salicylate) effect, just add

some grinded ginger with the wheat flour and vinegar. During my

younger days, there were no medicated patches that you can buy in

drugstores. But this formula is more effective compare to any other

plasters you know, and it has been known thousands of years ago in

China. Try it.

 

10. EARTHWORM

 

Earthworm – you may find one in your backyard garden. Earthworm is

known for treating almost all kinds of high fever, influenza, and

malaria since thousands of years ago. It is also known to treat

asthma. Dry it under the shade with cool air. Boil it with water and

drink it. It is as simple as that.

 

Also, don't you know that raw earthworm is good for running ears

(otorrhea), and tinea cruris and stiff neck and shoulders. Grind the

earthworm and paste it in the infected area.

 

I can remember now, when I was a small boy, on our backyard garden,

was a young woman digging soil for search of earthworm. For

curiosity's sake, I asked her, " Mrs. Nagata, what are you going to do

with that earthworm? " . She laughed and said, " It's my breakfast " . I

ran to my grandma and told about Mrs. Nagata's breakfast, earthworm.

Grandma told me that it was used as a medicine for asthma of her

husband.

 

When I had a cook in the Philippines 20 years ago, I visited his

brother in the uncivilized remote area of the southern mountains for

vacation. There is no electricity and they live in a small house made

from coconut leaves. The young brother was suffering from asthma. I

told them about earthworm treatment, surprisingly though, they knew

about it already. He learned about the earthworm treatment from his

Chinese friend in a nearby town.

 

 

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Junji Takano is a Japanese health researcher and has been studying

the causes of viruses since 1960. In 1968, he invented the Pyro-

Energen, the first electrotherapy device that eradicates viral

diseases effectively and without any side effects.

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