Respiratory Infections? Herbs can help!

You know those illnesses that usually end in going deep into your chest and you cough for 3-8 weeks straight?….and you tell your friends that the disease itself wasn’t as bad as the cough afterwards? Chinese herbs have been shown to help!

A 2013 study examined 352 studies on using Chinese herbs for cough. Only studies with what these authors deemed “best methodological quality” (high integrity of research tools used with good sample sizes) were chosen to evaluate how Chinese Herbs can assist with coughing after infection/disease. The authors concluded that there was sufficient evidence to suggest that “Chinese Herbs may effectively improve core symptoms of post infectious cough, act better and have better effects, and enhance patients quality of life….it is relatively safe and well tolerated without serious side effects”.

Your acupuncturist will tell you there are many Chinese herbs just for that purpose and they can put together a unique formula to help support you, based upon your unique symptoms. Make sure you call them in time! As a matter of fact, drop your acupuncturist a line any time you get sick. You might be surprised at all the knowledge they use to help assist you in combating your symptoms and helping your disease go away! From nutritional and lifestyle recommendations, to acupuncture sessions or changing up your herbal formulas as you pass through different disease phases, your acupuncturist is there for you!

You can read through all the specifics yourself in Chinese Herbal Medicine for Postinfectious Cough: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials by Wei Liu, Hong-Li Jiang and Bing Mao, published Nov 20, 2013 in Volume 2013/Article ID 906765 at https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/906765.

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