The following advice with cold remedies used in China for centuries will enhance your natural defenses and mobilize your immune support during the Flu Season.
Muscle aches If your throat is sore, gargle with salt water and do what it takes to stop the symptoms. Remember, if you do not drop everything now and rest, you may suffer much more later on.
As a standard daily practice drink plenty of warm fluids, add Green tea to your habits. Warm soups in the winter.
Take 1000 mg of Vitamin C each morning and evening. Human body does not produce this vitamin although it is necessary for removing toxins we all accumulate.(You could also take other anti-oxidants such as Vit D and E, flax seed oil, cod liver oil).
Have YIN CHIAO handy, follow the instructions on the label and take when the FIRST symptoms appear and continue until they have subsided (up to four days).
This safe herbal remedy has been used in China for hundreds of years to alleviate colds, fevers, bodily pains, sore throat, headache, swollen glands, influenza, acute bronchitis. It has also been used to treat parotidis, measles, early stage of encephalitis or meningitis and other febrile conditions. Used for children in smaller doses.
YIN CHIAO CHIEH TU PIAN
Lonicera Japonica (Jin Yin Hua) 15gr
Forsythia Suspensa (Lian Qiao) 15gr
Arctium Lappa (Niu Bang Zi) 9gr
Mentha (Bo He) 9gr
Schisonepete (Jing Jia Shui) 6.gr
Glycine max (Prep. Soybean,Dan Dou Chi) 12gr
Platycodon (Jie Geng) 12gr
Phyllostachys (Bamboo leaf, Dan Zhu Ye) 6gr
Phragmates (Lu Gen) 9gr
Isatis Tinctoria (Ban Lang Gan) 9gr
Glycyrrhiza (Gan Cao) 6gr
You can buy these Chinese healing herbs at any Chinese herbalist and cook them according to the instructions. It is available - and much easier to use - in a pill form.
Combining Tradition with Modern Science
Planetary Herbals has reformulated this classic cold remedy with powerful herbal extracts that provide the same benefits as the traditional one in two tabs instead of six tabs daily.
Write Yin Chiao Classic to the search column at Herbal Remedies USA to access the page about the new cold remedy.

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