home formula for allergy related cough

[Guest guest]

Yes, i've used white sage in place of moxa for increasing immunity on

ST36. I figured since sage and moxa smell similarly it would work. I

had good effect. I haven't gotten sick once in the flu and cold season

yet, however I should probably do that again for a booster. Sage in

the Native American pharmacology is excellent for treating a sore

throat and cough, it also has antibacterial properties.

I've also had excellent affects from milk thistle to treat my own

hepatitis B and repair and regenerate tissue. The technicians who

retrieved my lab work said whatever I was doing to keep doing and I

made a full recovery.

 

I think we need to be cautious of using wu wei zi in signs of

deficiency heat due to its warming nature which would further consume

yin.

 

As for Native American herbs, my own experience is that there's a

puffball fungus in the South Dakota area which acts in a similar way as

burnt hair to stop bleeding. The inner spores being used.

 

Wade

 

--- gabriellemathieu <gabriellemathieu wrote:

> Since some of the readers said they would like to read about herb

> topics, I thought I would share an experience I had the other day. I

> was home sick, and had no access to a Chinese pharmacy.

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> I made a pot of tea that tasted good and helped my irritated dry

> cough. Ofcourse I don't suggest this for patients, but it was fun to

> take care of myself with materials from my yard and local Whole

> Foods.

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> I started off with some left over sage (salvia officinialis) from a

> fresh herb poultry mix. I figured since it was in the mint family it

> might help to slightly release the exterior, and Western herbology

> advises that sage helps cough. At Whole Foods I bought some organic

> tangerines (subs for chen pi) to descend rebellious qi, and some wild

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> cherry bark (Western herbology-soothes cough). These made the tea

> taste good. Since I had no wu wei zi to astringe and tonify yin, I

> used Eleagnus berries, a small astringent sweet sour berry, recently

> in the news because of the high levels of lycopene it contains.

> (seems to prevent prostate ca). Eleagnus makes a pretty hedge, and

> many home-owners have it without knowing what it is.

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> I then added mulberry twigs (sang pai pi?)from my yard, and carefully

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> scrubbed my fresh loquat leaves (pi pa ye) to remove the irritating

> herbs.

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> or family?

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[Guest guest]

Gabrielle,

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> Has anyone else experimented with local substitutions for

themselves

> or family?

>

Years ago I was in a little town called

Namu about fifty kilometers or so

southwest of Chengdu. I haven't been

back in a few years, but in those

days it was pretty rural. It sits

at the foot of a range called the

Fairy Mountains where there's a

little Buddhist outpost called

The Temple of Keeping the Law.

 

The temple's been there for centuries.

The last time I was there, broken

fragments of two stones on which

one of the Ming emperors had had

a couplet inscribed when he visited

in the 16th century still lay in the

weeds behind the main building where

they'd been left by Red Guard soldiers

who'd destroyed them as relics of

imperialism.

 

The monks there have extensive knowledge

of a range of locally grown plants that

I don't think exist in other places.

They showed us their pharmacy and no

one could recognize much of the material

in it. Nor could we ever figure out

what the names of these things were.

 

But they used them according to Chinese

medical theories and sang their praises.

They blended them into the corn cakes

they made. They mixed them and made teas,

poultices, etc.

 

I had another experience with a doctor

from a small clinic in another fairly

remote community who took me to a little

stream and showed me where he came to

gather a particular herb that he used

every day in his clinic. According

to this guy, this herb only grew

right there; and again, I never

understood what he was calling it.

 

It's seemed to me ever since that a

good deal of traditional Chinese herbalism

consists of making use of locally available

ingredients based upon theory as well

as empirical evidence from experience

with particular plants or whatever

else one can find to use.

 

How's your cough?

 

Ken

[Guest guest]

Fernando, I picked a formula from the " Gently Moisten Category, "

called Xing Su San. I added Xin Yin Hua (cedar stuffs up the nose!),

Zi Wan for the cough, Bai Bu and Yu Zhu for yin def cough, and Lu Gen

for dry mouth.

 

Good luck on your herbal boards. I'll take mine in July.