All About Flu and Cough

[lim_013]

normally this is a viral flu cycle from start to recovering.


Fever > running nose; sore throat, eye itch > cough.

This is our body natural way of virus out of our body an usually cough last the longest…
Prevent is better than cure.

[kiasu-tweety]

My son becomes sick (running nose & cough) every mths, ever since he is placed in child-care centre from 18 mths onwards. There was 1 or 2x that he fell sick 2x within a mth. I feel very 'tiring' to feed him medicines every mths. Taking too much western medicines has affected his physical well-being. As comparing to his peers, he is smaller in size. Before he turned 1 yr old, he was bigger in size as comparing to his peers. Now, becomes opposite...


What to do??? That is the price that parents have to bear for putting their children in child-care centre. There are many children sick too at that child-care centre. The common sickness is flu, running nose & cough.

Plus point of putting my son in child-care centre - he can pick up more words and learns to talk faster & earlier, because there are teachers whom he can interact with. More people there.

[BlurBee]

insider:

Meant to share with all this effective recipe for removing phlegm long ago but till now then really have the time to do so (now my 6 years old is having chesty cough and have to make it again).



STEWED PEAR WITH ROCK SUGAR冰糖燉梨

Hi insider, thks for this great recipe.

Hi AB, thks for referring me to this recipe.

My DS's phlegm problem is better now. He only took the water for 4 days. :boogie:
Will continue another round for him.
:thankyou:

[autumnbronze]

BlurBee:

insider:

Meant to share with all this effective recipe for removing phlegm long ago but till now then really have the time to do so (now my 6 years old is having chesty cough and have to make it again).



STEWED PEAR WITH ROCK SUGAR冰糖燉梨

Hi insider, thks for this great recipe.

Hi AB, thks for referring me to this recipe.

My DS's phlegm problem is better now. He only took the water for 4 days. :boogie:
Will continue another round for him.
:thankyou:

Hi BlurBee,

I am so glad to read that your DS is on the road to recovery :celebrate:

I am also grateful to Insider for sharing this recipe.

[wildcats]

Hi


Anybody has any remedies for dry cough? Notice my gal cough a few times throughout the day with no indication of phlegm. I don’t want to feed her western medicine cos she has been taking it quite frequently for the past months.

Any other remedies??

Thanks.

[BlurBee]

wildcats:

Hi


Anybody has any remedies for dry cough? Notice my gal cough a few times throughout the day with no indication of phlegm. I don't want to feed her western medicine cos she has been taking it quite frequently for the past months.

Any other remedies??

Thanks.

U want to try honey. :lol:
That's a thread abt it.

[lim_013]

i gave my kids general Mulit Vit, calmag, vit C and fibre, which works pretty well for few times…

[wildcats]

Hi


My 3 year old gal has been coughing for almost 2 weeks. She tends to cough in the morning when awakes and night before sleep. Can she drink the pear with chuan bei if it is not a chesty cough?

And do you give eggs or fish when they are coughing?? HEard that some fish can cause phelgm. What food to avoid too??


Thanks

[duriz]

Nourishing Chinese Soup (止咳润肺汤)

Serves 4

Ingredients
10 - 15 grams* each of the following Chinese herbs
*(amount each about 1 tablespoon):

Fritillaria Bulbs “Chuan Bei Mu” (川贝母)
Glehniae Root “Sha Shen” (沙参)
Solomon's Seal Rhizome “Yu Zhu” (玉竹)
Liquorice Root \"Gan Cao\" (甘草)
Sweet Almond/ Southern Almond “Nan Xing” (南杏)
Bitter Almond/ Northern Almond or Chinese Almond “Bei Xing” (北杏)

1 teaspoon of Fructus Lycii aka Wolfberry “Gou Qi Zi” (枸杞子)

1 small Dried (Sugar Coated) Tangerine “Gan Ju Bing” (干桔饼)
8 – 10 Dried Figs “Wu Hua Guo” (无花果)
If you are unable to find dried tangerine, replace with 2-3 honey dates (蜜枣).

1 pot of water, 50% filled (about 800ml)

Optional:
200 grams of lean pork meat or ribs or lung, blanched
Pinch of salt to taste
If adding meat to the soup, you may wish to reduce the dried tangerine to half a piece instead, depending on how sweet you want the soup to taste.

Method:

1. Boil soup in slow cooker:

Add water, blanched lean meat/ ribs (if desired) and all ingredients into pot. Then, place pot back to its slow cooker.
Turn into auto shift mode and simmer for a few hours, or keep simmering from morning before work, till evening after work.
Add salt (if desired) before serving.

2. Boil soup on stove:

Heat a pot of water over high fire.
When boiled, reduce heat to low fire.
Add blanch lean meat/ ribs (if desired) and all ingredients into the pot. Simmer for 2 - 3 hours.
Add salt (if desired) before serving.

[duriz]

wildcats:

Hi


My 3 year old gal has been coughing for almost 2 weeks. She tends to cough in the morning when awakes and night before sleep. Can she drink the pear with chuan bei if it is not a chesty cough?

And do you give eggs or fish when they are coughing?? HEard that some fish can cause phelgm. What food to avoid too??


Thanks

川贝母 Fritillaria is a bulbous flowering plant often used in Chinese medicine to treat coughs or other lung conditions. According to traditional Chinese medicine, this compound is \"cooling\" and affects the \"heart and lung meridians.\" It is typically used to moisten dry mucous membranes, loosen phlegm, and suppress coughing.

Research conducted in China has shown that compounds in fritillaria (including verticine, verticinone, imperialine and thymidine) help inhibit the contraction of bronchial smooth muscle and decrease mucus secretion. The unprocessed bulb is poisonous, although commercially available bulbs are usually processed.