Traditional Chinese Medicine - TOP 5 Treatments To Keep Around

Throughout China, and premixed 'patent' herbal mixtures are readily available in most reputable herb shops.
Here is a list of the Top Five to keep around the house.
1) Gan Mao Ling - Head Cold Remedy
Even though simple colds are the most common ailment in the West, we really don't have effective ways of treating them, just of masking symptoms. This is for the type of cold that involves a stiff neck, sore muscles, headache, runny nose, and moderate fever.
2)Yin Qiao Jie Du Pian - Flu Remedy
It should be noted that this formula should be taken within the first 24 hour periord that flu symptoms develop. Indications are swollen glands, sore throat, chills, body aches, sharp feverishness, headache.
3)Yunnan Bai Yao - Injury, Bruising, and Shock
Interestingly enough, this was standard issue for Vietnamese Troops during the war. Can be used for almost any type of injury to reduce bruising and increase healing time. A martial artist staple. This comes as both powder and capsules.
4)Bi Yan Pian - Sinusitis
For those terrible attacks of sneezing, sinus pain and pressure, thick yellow-green mucus, and itching eyes.
5)Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Shui - Digestive Upsets
Used for nausea, vomiting, loose stools, excessive wind, and flulike symptoms. Most commonly used for attacks associated with eating bad food. Very good at controlling motion sickness, makes a must ave while traveling.

Hope this helps someone build a good Traditional Chinese Medicine cabinet!!

Using Your TV Guide to Discern Upcoming Google Trends

When you start to talking to talk about trending searches in Google, and any kind of predictive method, you are really walking the line, with hard data on one side and gut intuition on the next. It really is an incredible display of the collective consciousness. Things generally 'trend' after something stimulates the collective consciousness. Those stimuli can come from news, television, weather, and word of mouth (social media is technically word of mouth) buzz. Incident happens and is reported, topics trend, more reporting is done as a response to public interest, and the increased exposure makes the subject matter more popular.
I found a very easy way to say ahead of Google Trends with a TV guide, or the online guide of your cable company, which gives you descriptions of the upcoming shows. It provides you with a good idea of the subject matter for the upcoming day. The news is fickle, and subjects wane quickly, and it's way too much information to take in at once. This method certainly helps you see what's coming.

Medicinal Wine - Boost the Middle Mix

Traditional Chinese Remedy
Medicinal Wine
Boot the Middle Path Mix
For internal cold, poor appetite, nausea, bloating,
and dull stomach pain.



The Wine Procedure:

2 cups of Alcohol (rice wine is traditionally preferred, vodka or gin may be used)
Break up herbs of your choice and put them in a mason jar
Pour Alcohol over the herb mixture
Seal and set for two-three weeks. Shake about once a week.
Strain the liquid through a fine sieve,
bottle and cork. (Who said being a wino wasn't useful.)
Dosage is one pull, a half mouth-full.

Boot the Middle Herb Mix
Bu Zhong Jiu

Hui Xiang 50g
Fennel
Shan Zha 100g
Dried Hawthorn Fruit
Sha Ren 50g
Cardamon Seed