Viral colds are especially bad this winter, with coughs and splitting headaches, runny noses, and drowsiness. Recently, the US media reported news that "this Chinese herbal medicine has replaced cough and become the topic of New Yorkers", and the picture is sweetened Chuan Bei Pei Pa Koa. The popularity of Pei Pa Koa in foreign countries is not an accident, on the contrary, to a certain extent, it proves the value and efficacy of Chinese traditional medicine products. Looking back on the past, there are many traditional chinese medicine products that have become popular abroad.
Pei Pa Koa
Let's start with the recently popular Pei Pa Koa. The taste of loquat is sweet, flat, and slightly cool. Specifically, it is neither cold nor hot, and there is no physical limitation of the human body. Although the name is Pei Pa Koa, in fact, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the ingredients are not loquat, but loquat leaves.
Loquat leaves can clear the lung heat, and reduce stomach qi, irritability, and thirst is also helpful. The Pei Pa Koa is made by taking the characteristics of loquat leaf and combining them with pharmaceutical equipment, through the process of soaking, extracting, concentrating, collecting, packing, and cooling. It can clear heat, dissipate phlegm, and stop cough, mainly used for lung heat dry cough, less phlegm dry throat.
As for the popularity of Pei Pa Koa in the United States, some media reported that unlike the Chinese people who know that "the medicine is divided into three poisons", American Pei Pa Koa lovers are no longer satisfied with using it to treat coughs and colds. It is reported that some people not only carry loquat sugar, blended into lopa Koa wine but also treat lopa Koa as a daily drinking "herbal tea". What needs to be reminded here is that although Pei Pa Koa has a certain effect, for the sake of insurance, or to ask the doctor, to follow the doctor's advice, do not take it blindly.
Wind oil essence
Wind oil essence is people in the summer to deal with mosquito bite "artifact", the author is often "patronized" by mosquitoes. If there is a mosquito bite phenomenon, applying a little wind oil essence can play an antipruritic effect, not because of itching and scratching pus, leaving scars.
It is reported that the main component of wind oil essence is the traditional Chinese medicine camphor, camphor, hot, toxic, the heart, and spleen meridian, dehumidification and insect killing, warm powder pain relief, and opening the orgnaization to clear the filth effect. It is used for scabies itching, falling pain, toothache, and other symptoms. At present, camphor is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Taiwan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and other places in China, especially Taiwan is more.
For wind oil essence, foreigners are so evaluated: in terms of eliminating pain, wind oil essence has a greater effect. When muscle soreness is caused by excessive fitness, or when headache and back pain occur, wind oil essence also has a big effect that can be used to do massage. However, in view of the taste of wind oil essence, foreigners have different views, some people think it smells bad, and some people fall in love with this magical taste.
Huoxiang Zhengqi water
In the past, Huoxiang Zhengqi water was mainly presented in the form of pills, but now there are not only pills but also soft capsules. Generally, Huoxiang Zhengqi is suitable for summer, which can relieve heat and dampness, and is mostly used for fever, chest tightness, abdominal distension, vomiting, and diarrhea caused by external heat and dampness. It can also be used to stop stomach vomiting and treat nausea and vomiting caused by excessive dampness.
Huoxiang Zhengqi water is a traditional Chinese medicine with more ingredients, mainly including Huoxiang, Poria cocos, Dawei bark, Perilla leaf, angelica dahurica, orange peel, Grandiflorum, Atractylodes rhizoma, Radix officinalis (ginger), Pinellia, Licorice, etc. In recent years, through clinical practice, medical personnel have found new effects of its external use, especially in the treatment of dermatological diseases.
In the eyes of foreigners, the role of Huoxiang Zhengqi water is also great. Foreigners are known to use it not only to relieve heat stroke but also to treat diarrhea, which has made Huoxang Zhengqi water a common medicine for some foreigners, especially in the summer when the heat is severe.