Chinese herbal cough medicine

It had been quite some time since i last stepped into the chinese medicine shop ('yok choy pou'). When I was back to my hometown few weeks ago, I went into one to help my aunt to get something. I saw a lot of ppl asking the boss if cough eat wat. i tried so many different kinds of western medicine, nv try chinese medicine also, maybe i should give it a try. Therefore, when the boss come served me, I also ask him what to eat for cough. Then he intro this to me.

Chinese Herbal Cough Pills, RM 12
according to the boss, morning cough can eat,
night time cough can eat, cold cough
can eat, hot cough also can eat.
as long as you cough, then you can eat.
walaoeh.. that good meh...

3 times a day, each time 3 pills

If really eat 3 times a day and 3 pills per time,
you will finish the whole bottle after 4 days.

it seems to work, when i eat, i don't cough. but the problem is, i kept forget to eat. meaning to say, i eat in the morning, then lunch and dinner forgot. Then maybe the next day i forgot to eat, so end up i am still coughing. perhaps if i really follow the instructions, eat 3 times per day can really cure my cough? I think i will go buy another bottle and follow the instructions, to see whether it will really cure my cough or not.

How does the real Nan Fei Leaves (南非叶) looks like?

I received a lot of mesg from my readers asking me how the real nan fei leaves (南非叶) looks like, after they read my post on "Nan Fei Leaves (南非叶) prevents cancer, cough, high blood pressure, high cholestrol...".

I managed to get a picture of the Nan Fei plant when I went back to my hometown last weekend. So here's how the real plant looks like.

Nan Fei Plant

According to my aunt, this nan fei plant is very easy to grow and it can grow very tall. A lot of ppl now has this plant at their house. Check around your housing area, maybe your neighbour has this plant too!

Honey cure cough?

Heard from quite a number of friends that honey can cure cough. The trick is, u need to get pure honey. How to know whether it's pure or not pure? Erm? by price? No not necessary. A friend told me she took a tablespoon of honey when she was in Bangkok and her cough cured. Recently she started to cough again but she tried so many different kinds of expensive honey but the cough doesn't go away.

hmm.. so where can we get the so call pure honey?

2 pieces of mandarin orange..

I know i know, cough cannot eat mandarin orange. For the whole chinese new year, i never even eat one piece of mandarin orange. ppl eat, i see only.. so kesian..After tahan for so many days.. yesterday i curi 2 pieces of mandarin orange from FL and...

i cough like hell lar.. aiseh.. 2 pieces only leh... 2 tiny little small pieces.. i shoudn't eat that 2 pieces lar..for those of you out there that is coughing.. don't don't dont' eat mandarin orange, else, you'll end up like me.. cough cough cough...

Nan Fei Leaves (南非叶) prevents cancer, cough, high blood pressure, high cholestrol...

My aunt asked me to try this Nan Fei Leaves (南非叶), she said her friends tried and found that it can actually cure cough. Another cough remedy? then I must try lar, no harm trying mar, since i cough for so long already.

She showed me a newspaper article about this Nan Fei Leaves (南非叶). After I read the newspaper article (if you know chinese, click here to read about the article.), this article does not mention anything about curing cough, but apparently this Nan Fei Leaves has antioxidant that can prevent cancer and also very good for ppl who has high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Wow...

Anyway, my aunt asked me to try as she said it really cured her friend's cough. Ok ok, let's try then. How does Nan Fei Leaves looks like?

Nan Fei Leaf

wash it, there's about 15 leaves here.

boil a pot of water, when the water boils,
put in the Nan Fei Leaves and turn off
the fire. Cover it for a while.

it taste a bit bitter. drink as much as u want.

According to the newspaper, this leaf is best to eat raw as the heat might lower down the antioxidant. It is best to eat with green apple, blend green apple with this leaf and drink the juice (prevent cancer). I think this is very good especially for old people. A lot of ppl already start planting this at home. If you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, you might want to try this out. Even you don't have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, you can also try it out as it prevent cancer.

As for the cough, I'm not sure it works or not, as i cough on and off one. hehe, let me try to drink a few more times first then only i let you know. Where to get the plant? Well, i also dono, hehe, maybe you can start by asking your neighbors around, it's a very common plant, maybe your neighbors has it, who knows right?

Another cough remedy!! CUCUMBER!! ~ Part 3

I used 20 minutes to finish the cucumber that i cut into 8 pieces, so yesterday (the 3rd day), i decided to eat the cucumber just like tat, without cutting it. haha, oh yes, i finished it within 15 minutes time.. so for u guys that dislike cucumber, make sure you don't cut it into small pieces, else.. u'll suffer.. hehe...

so after eating cucumber for 3 days, erm, i'm STILL coughing.. guess this doesn't work for me, but as i said earlier, this works for ppl that cough at night, (i cough in the morning mar..) so cannot say anything lor..

for those of you that cough at night, probably you can try this lar. simple and cheap ..

Another cough remedy!! CUCUMBER!! ~ Part 2

After i ate the cucumber yesterday, i stop coughing already!! ya, i wished too.. of cos i'm STILL coughing la.. you think this cucumber so amazing meh.. eat one day can heal my cough!! hehe... I told my colleague i took 45 minutes to finish that cucumber, then she said, maybe you cut into too many pieces already. why don't you eat the whole cucumber just like tat?

hmm, maybe what she said is true.. i really cut into too many small pieces, ended up eating until very 'sun fu'.. so today, my 2nd cucumber i decided to cut into 8 pieces..

and guess what, it really works!! this time it only took me 20 minutes to finish the whole plate of cucumber! yay.. one more to go... :p

Another cough remedy!! CUCUMBER!!

cucumber can cure cough?

I guess it's a coughing season, a lot of ppl coughing nowadays. one of my colleague told us that he used to cough at night, but after eating cucumber for 3 days, his cough cured!! are you serious? ya he said no more cough... well, although mine is morning cough.. no harm trying mar.. right?

I already tried the barley cough remedy, but it doesn't work for me, well, i guess my cough is not dry cough gua.. he said eat cucumber with the skin and seed together with some salt continuously for 3 days and tah-dah.. no more cough cough cough.. so this afternoon, i went to giant and bought 4 organic cucumber. why 4? well, in case 3 not enuf for me, can eat one more lor. hehe.. one packet - 2 cucumber = RM 2.39. I bought 2 packets. I don't really like cucumber, sometimes i don't even eat those cucumber that comes together with the chicken rice.. well, should be ok gua, eating cucumber just like tat...

cut cut cut and eat with salt.
at first i thought it'll be pretty easy to eat
one whole cucumber by myself. but I WAS WRONG!!!
it took me 45 minutes to finish this plate of cucumber..
argg...i hate cucumber.. :p
whether it works for me? well, i'll tell you 3 days later..
hehe.. (~sigh..still got 2 to go.. )

Coughing non stop? Try this!!

I told my aunt about my coughing annivesary the other day when i was at malacca. I told her I've taken don't know how many bottles of cough medicine but on and off i'm still coughing, even without drinking any cold drinks!

She then brought me to her garden, and showed me a plant. A plant that looks like pandan leaves, except it's purplish green. She said I should try to boil this to drink and see if it heals my cough. My 'yi po' intro this plant to her and said it's very good in relieves sore throats and dry cough. well, y not? no harm trying wat, i want to get rid of this coughing thing!!

this is the purplish green plant i'm talking about.
looks like pandan leaves rite?
it is called Bang Hua leaves (蚌花，蚌兰花）.
It is believed that the Bang Hua leaves
helps to relieve dry cough, sore throats and etc.
(清肺化痰, 凉血止血, 止咳, 止痨伤吐血..)

why is it called Bang Hua (蚌花)?
it's because of this!
the flower of the plant.

wash the leaves and the flowers.

barley, i mixed the normal barley with china barley.
i prefer normal barley but my aunt says china
barley is better. hehe, so i mix la..

put everything in the pot and start boiling!!
when the barley turned soft, it's ready to be served.

after an hour, the water turned purple!

my aunt asked me to use the palm sugar (gula melaka),
she mentioned some benefits of gula melaka,
but i forgot!! hehe..
so i added the smaller piece.

it turned out to be quite nice!
it's exactly like barley, except it's purple. hehe..
hopefully it really can cure my cough cough cough...