3 traditional Chinese medicine remedies to treat asthma

Recently, a piece of news about people in India eating live fish to treat asthma made many netizens call it "too scary". What is going on? Why not let the editor take you today to see what methods should be used to treat asthma.

India: Eat live fish to treat asthma

According to the British "Daily Mail" report on June 11, every June in India, thousands of patients troubled by asthma gather in the southern city of Hyderabad and wait in long lines to eat live fish. This is their traditional way of treating asthma.

This treatment is 156 years old and is said to be passed down from Hindu saints and performed by the Patini Goud family. They sealed the live fish with a yellow herb and asked the patient to swallow it alive, which was said to help breathing. Herbal medicine is passed down from generation to generation and is kept secret. The family said asthma can be cured after three years of treatment.

The Goode family claims that their herbal medicine takes a 5-centimetre-long live sardine or murrell fish into the patient's mouth and squirms into the throat, clearing the diseased body along the way. Asthma and other respiratory diseases can be permanently cured - as long as they receive treatment for three years. After treatment, patients must follow a strictly prescribed diet for 45 days.

On these two days every year, with the beginning of the rainy season in June, people come from all over the country to receive this free treatment. They used various methods to swallow live fish. Some pinched their noses, while others turned their heads and closed their eyes. For children who were crying and did not dare to swallow, they had to pry open their mouths.

Doctors believe that this treatment is "unscientific", violates human rights, and is unhygienic, but the Goode family refuses to accept this statement, and others seem to be the same. The Indian government also arranges special trains for "Live Fish Treatment" days every year, and increases police force to maintain order.

Three traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions to treat asthma

Home remedies 1

Ingredients: 10 grams each of Ganoderma lucidum and Perilla leaf, 15 grams each of Poria and rock sugar, 8 grams of Pinellia ternata, and 5 grams of Magnolia officinalis.

Method: Decoction in water and take.

Home remedies 2

Ingredients: 250 grams of Wangweizi, 10 brown eggs.

Method: Put Schisandra chinensis into an earthenware vessel, add water and boil for 30 minutes. When the concoction is cool, add 10 brown eggs and soak in a cool place for 7 days. Take 1 egg every morning and eat it.

Home remedies 3

Ingredients: 6 grams each of Ganoderma lucidum and Perilla leaf, 4.5 grams Pinellia ternata, 3 grams Magnolia officinalis, and 9 grams Poria cocos.

Method: Decoct in water and add rock sugar and take it.