cough

Cough with urine incontinence, laryngitis and vomiting (Emotional causes)

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In this article, I would address some emotional causes and how it is often hard to find a cure for cough if the emotional causes is not being addressed. When a person tells me that they have been coughing for a long time, tried all remedies and yet could not be cured, the first thing I wondered is if they could have been going through a period of sadness and grief which lead to the coughing. Once, I myself was coughing so badly and I find I had complete incontinence. I attempted to explore the emotional factors- and was able to cure my incontinence and my cough was not so severe.

Western vs TCM treatment for chill-personal experience

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Recently I had fallen sick due to getting caught in just a little rain on Sunday. By Tuesday, felt a bit tired but still okay. However as soon as I had some Milo in the afternoon immediately my body seemed to go haywire. The flu, cough, itchy throat came.  By the time I got home, I slept almost immediately. Next [...]

Stress, emotions and the correlation to lung infections/ cough/ asthma

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There is no known medication that can completely cure acute respiratory infection (ARI). Where some medication can control the condition to certain extend, one cannot say that by just taking the medicine one can be completely cured. Acute respiratory infection is a common illness but often causing one unable to attend work or school- affecting productivity [...]

Caught a chill? Chinese medicine is really effective

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Just last week I had caught a chill. I started way back the week before- where I did not feel well after downing a strong cup of Starbucks latte at night. Then the day after, which was a Sunday, I got caught in the light rain.  I had felt tired and tried to sweat it [...]

Relieving cough with boiled rice water

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Recently, my entire family has been down with cough. Even in my office, my boss and some of my colleagues are having very bad cough. I forsee the situation would get worse as many people who is not even coughing would start to cough after taking mandarin oranges or lokam which are in season now [...]

Juice from Raw Papaya Leaf can Increase Platelet Count

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Just last Christmas, my brother was nearly hospitalized due to suspected dengue. He was weak and his body temperature was alternating between high and very high with lots of coughing. His blood platelet count was low. At first, I took him to see the Chinese doctor to have his pulse taken. After taking the Chinese [...]

How to cure cough with Coca Cola

How to cure cough using Coca Cola

I did mention earlier that I will be writing a post on how you can use Coca Cola a.k.a the real thing to cure cough. Take note though- it can only cure if you do it during the initial stages of cough. Once the cough gets chronic, it does not work anymore. This is something [...]

My experience in treating a chill with traditional Chinese medication

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How I came down with the chill One Thursday, it was raining very heavily as I ran out the car to unlock the gate after meeting up with someone. I thought nothing about it as I was often caught in the rain when I was staying in Thailand- since I am the type who rather [...]

Beautiful Body but Insecure Sad Eyes

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There is this middle age lady who had signed up in the gym longer than I did. She was attending mostly yoga classes and doing light cardio. She never did the weights. Then about 9 months ago, I saw her engaging the services of a personal trainer. She started exercising very hard- doing intensive cardio [...]