REMEDIES

Preventing and Curing Ailments

INTERNAL CONDITIONS

In China today,disease are treated either by Western medicine or traditional chinese medicine or both,depending on the nature of the diseases and the patient's choice.When I visited China in 1983,our bus driver told me of his plans to see doctor the following day,and i asked him which doctor he wanted to see,a doctor of medicine or a doctor of Chinese Medicine.He had an appointment to see the latter,he said.I asked him how he made  that choice.Normally .he replied,a Chinese patient relies on the advice of a friend or acquaintance,for that matter,someone who had suffered from a similar disease and had been cured

Preventing and Curing Ailments

INTERNAL CONDITIONS

In China today,disease are treated either by Western medicine or traditional chinese medicine or both,depending on the nature of the diseases and the patient's choice.When I visited China in 1983,our bus driver told me of his plans to see doctor the following day,and i asked him which doctor he wanted to see,a doctor of medicine or a doctor of Chinese Medicine.He had an appointment to see the latter,he said.I asked him how he made  that choice.Normally .he replied,a Chinese patient relies on the advice of a friend or acquaintance,for that matter,someone who had suffered from a similar disease and had been cured.

The Theory of Five Elements

 

Similar to the theory of yin-yang, the theory of five elements � wood, fire, earth, metal and water � was an ancient philosophical concept used to explain the composition and phenomena of the physical universe. In traditional Chinese medicine the theory of five elements is used to interpret the relationship between the physiology and pathology of the human body and the natural environment. According to the theory, the five elements are in constant move and change, and the interdependence and mutual restraint of the five elements explain the complex connection between material objects as well as the unity between the human body and the natural world.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the visceral organs, as well as other organs and tissues, have similar properties to the five elements; they interact physiologically and pathologically as the five elements do. Through similarity comparison, different phenomena are attributed to the categories of the five elements. Based on the characteristics, forms, and functions of different phenomena, the complex links between physiology and pathology as well as the interconnection between the human body and the natural world are explained.

The five elements emerged from an observation of the various groups of dynamic processes, functions and characteristics observed in the natural world. The aspects involved in each of the five elements are follows:

Fire: draught, heat, flaring, ascendance, movement, etc.

Wood: germination, extension, softness, harmony, flexibility, etc.

Metal: strength, firmness, killing, cutting, cleaning up, etc.

Water: moisture, cold, descending, flowing, etc.

COMMON COLD

• Cook noodles accordingto the patient's taste,and add 25g fresh onion white heads and 25g fresh ginger,mix thoroughly .The patient may begin to perpire afterwards and should stay in bed after eating it.
• Peel n crush 15g garlic,add 15ml rice vinegar.Use this mixture the same as the noodles (above)
• Slice 30g old or fresh ginger and boil in 300ml water until the water is reduced to 100ml;add some brown sugar and boil again until the sugar dissolves.Drink the whole thing and stay in bed to perpire.
• Boil 30g hyacinth beans in water until they break;add 30g sugar and boil again until the sugar dissolves.After eating,stay in bed for perpire.
• Boil 10g papermint and 10g crushed green onion white heads in water to make tea to relieve headache due to common cold.
• Other foods considered beneficial to common cold are orange peel,papermint,green onion bulb,and radish
• Crush 100g fresh ginger and squeeze out the juice;mix the juice with rice wine and warm in a small pan.Drink the beverage to induce perpiration.
• Fry a few garlic cloves and grind into powder;mix 2 teaspoonfuls of the garlic powder with  a little sugar and eat it to relieve cough due to common cold.
• Break an egg int a glass of rice wine and mix with a spoon ;warm it over low heat until the egg is half cooked;add some sugar.Drink it as a soup to relieve headache and shivering due to common cold.
  INFLUENZA
• Boil 10g yellow soybeans in water for 15 minutes;add 30g parsley and boil it again for 15 minutes.Drink the soup and stay in bed to perpire.
• Slice 250g fresh radish and soak it in a suitable quantity of vinegar for a few hours.Eat it as salad.
• Put a few slices green onion white heads or garlic in a respiratory mask;inhale for prevention of and recovery from influenza.
• Grate 150g fresh radish and mix it with honey in a jar.Seal the jar for 1 week.Eat a small cupful each time,3 times a day.
  

  STOMACHACHE

  • A Chinese physician reported that he treated 34 cases of cold diseases with remarkable results;these included cold stomachache ,vomiting of acid,abdominal swelling,intestinal rumbling,diarrhea,chestpain,cough and abdominal pain during menstrualisation in women.The above diseases are classified as cold diseases,because all the patients show 3 basic cold symptoms;dislike of cold as it makes their symptoms get worst,absence of fever,and no sensations of thirst.The remedy consist of 10-15g  licorice and dried ginger mixed together as a dosage for one day.
  • A Chinese Physician reported his succesful treatment of 20 cases of cold stomachache .To make his remedy:combine 10 raw black peppercorns,3 red seeded date,5 apricot seeds (from sweet of bitter apricots) and immerse in warm water for 2 days (change water five times during that period);drain and crush the 3 ingredients,mix them with small amount of warm water to make a thick soup.Drink the soup with water for a dosage( reduces for children ).A 75 years old patient treated in this program who had a 10-years history of stomachache ,came to theclinic because his chronic stomachache was triggered by a cold meal the previous evening.His stomachache was gone only 30 minutes after drinking the soup.The chinese doctor vivited him a month later and found the patient in good health.
  • Warm 1/2 cup freshmilk with 1 teaspoonful fresh ginger juice and a little sugar,drink the whole thing.It's is also good for vomiting,betching,and difficulty when swallowing.
  • Dissolve 4g ground cinnamon in a up of warm water,cover it for 15 minutes.Drink it as a te
  ABDOMINAL PAIN
• Boil a few garlic cloves in water with black sugar over low heat.Drink a cupful each time.3 times a day,after meals.
• Chew a few dried sourplums slowly like chewing gum.
• Consume a large quantity of cooked chives.

  
  

  
  

  DIABETES

  • Sugar in the urine as one of the most important symptoms of diabeteswas included in Chinese medical classic,A collection of diseases,by  Wang Shou,published in 752.For the first time in Chinese medical history,diabetes was listed among the eleven hundred diseases in the book.The author recomended pork pancreas as treatment for the disease,and had also used a special methodof testing sugar in the urine.The patient passed urine on a wide flat brick to see if ants gathered to collect the sugar.This method of testing urinewas ore than 10 centuries ahead of Richard Thomas William-son (1862-1937),who invented a test for the same purpose.   In Chinese medicine,however,thirst,weight loss,fatigue,and sugar in the urine was considered the key symptoms of diabetes.When the patient recover from any of these symptoms,the diabetes treatment is considered succesful.
  • 25 diabetes patients were treated at Canton College of Traditional Chinese Medicine by dried bitter melon slices;each dosage per day consisted of 250g dried bitter melon slices boiled in water.The level of their blood sugar taken 2 1/2 hours after meals,and their urine sugar taken 24 hours after meals,were both statistically very significant.
  • 100g fresh corn are boiled each time as one dosage;treated a diabetes patient gine a good results after taking only 4 dosages.
  • 60% wheat bran + 40% wheat powder,mixed with chicken eggs to make a cake remedy (without sugar).At the begining patients were treated with 500g  of this cake remedy each day,with the proportion of wheat bran gradually decreased as symptoms improved.Among 15 cases treated by this method,the level of blood sugar was reduced to lower than 180mg/100ml blood in 7 cases.All 13 cases showed a general improvement in all other sympthoms.
  • Chop 50g fresh potato leaves and 100g wax gourd,steam over water as a dosage for daily consumption.
  • Soak 100g fresh onion in boiling water for 1 minutes season with a little salt.Eat twice a day.
  • Boil 1 cup mare's milk as daily dosage.Drink a milk twice a day.Mare's milk has a cool energy and sweet favor;it can lubricate dryness ,reduce heat,and quench thirst;its used for fatigue and diabetes.Mare's milk has same function as cow milk but it not so fatty;it is effective for reducing the heat of gall bladder and the stomach,considered beneficial to sore throat,good for head and the eyes.and also effective for the relief of diabetes.
  • Boil 30g fresh watermelon peel in 2 glasses water.Drink 1 glass each time twice a day.
  • Soak 100g mung beans overnight;boil in 3 glasses water over low heat until bean break.Eat as a soup in a day.
  • Boil 250g to 300g fresh radish in water with 20 to 25g abalone.Drink as soup ,once every other day.Repeat 6 to 7 times as treatment program(this is a time honored recipe in Chinese folk medicine for diabetas).
  • Boil 150g chive(or chive shoots) with 200g clams and suitable seasoning.Eat in a day.This remedy is also good for excessive perpiration and pulmonary tuberculosis.
    
    
    
    
    KIDNEY DISEASE
    Wash and peel 300g old ginger ;crush it to squeeze out the juice;soak 50g red dates in water for half an hour until soft;crush them after peeling and removing the seeds.Combine ginger juice and crush dates in container ;add 100g brown sugar and steam until they become like pudding.Eat 3 times a day for 5 days.
    Chinese people in a small village has a habit of eating "watermelon sugar" as a food to treat kidney disease.Slice watermelon(red part only)into thin pieces and cook over low heat;then add a little sugar and strain;after 4 or 5 days,the juice will thicken like honey;which is call watermelon sugar.Eat 1 tablespoonful each time,twice a day.
    
    
    
    
    NEPHRITIS( DEMAM GINJAL/BUHA PINGGANG)
    • Using a sharp knife,make a triangular hole in a 1.5kg watermelon to remove some flesh;place 70g peeled garlic cloves onside the watermelon ;cover the hole with cut-piece of rind;steam the watermelon with the garlic and eat the whole thing while hot
    • Boil 30g dried watermelon peel in water.Drink as tea .Or boil 2 concorbs in water and drink it as tea.
      BRONCHITIS
      Crush 500g unpeeled radish or pear and soak in 2 teanspoonful honey for a few hours before eating it.
      In case of hoearseness due to bronchitis
      
      
      

      HYPERTENSION

      • 30 to 40g dried peanut plants boiled to make tea as a daily dosage for 2 weeks.patient were instructed to drink the tea from peanut plants on an irregular basic after blood pressure return to normal.
      • Hypertension with constipation was cured by eating 5 bananas everyday as reported from Tian Jin,China.
      • According to Chinese diet system,3 ways to cope twith hypertension ;first eat more food that can soften the blood vessel  such as kelp,sea grass,mung beans sprout,fruits and others.Second,used vegetable oils such as sesame,peanut and corn oil,instead of animal fats and oils to reduce the level of cholestrol;and avoid food with high chlorestrol level,such as egg yolk,liver,and kidneys.Third,eat more foods that can reduces blood pressure ,such as celery,hawthorn fruit,banana,and persimmon.
      • Wash 500g fresh celery,and squeeze out the the juice;mix the juice with 50ml honey and warm it in a small pan.Devide and drink twice a day.
      • Soak mung beans in water overnight;the nnext day,boil with an equal amount of seaweed and some rice (for long term consumption).
      • Eat 1 to 2 fresh tomatoes on empty stomach first thing in the morning for 15 days.Repeat from time to time as a treatment program.This is also good for constipation.
      • Cook tomatoes with celery as asoup;season with little salt.
      • Chop 750g water chestnuts and 750g radishes;squeeze out the juice;mix with a few teaspoonfuls honey.Drink the juice twice a day,half of the portion each time.
      • Fry 20g kelp with 20 black soybeans ;boil kelp and soybeans in 3 cups water until water is reduced by half.Eat as soup.
      • Regularly eat seaweed,mung beans,hawthorn fruit,clam and mung beans sprouts.