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How TCM Treat and Prevent H1N1 Flu?

  • Wednesday, 18 November 2009 17:16
  • Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 November 2009 17:21 )
  • Written by Administrator

Traditional Chinese Medicine ( TCM )has been fighting with epidemic diseases for thousands years, there are two main schools developed over Flu, Shang Han school mostly treats winter cold-induced plagues ,while Wen Bin school mainly copes with spring summer warm-induced pestilence, So, How TCM looks at H1N1 Flu ?

First of all, H1N1 has all characters of Wen Bin:

  1. It starts at spring, summer, lasts to present.
  2. Onsets suddenly. The incubation period can be only one day.
  3. spreads by wind broadly(Airborne), no matter gender and age.
  4. Conditions severe like high fever (>40c), transmits fast, in 1-3days may be in life threaten conditions.
  5. First attacks Lung system causes Flu symptoms and signs, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, then may adversely transfers to invade pericardium, heart, causes coma, delirium.
  6. The process goes through Wei, Qi, Yin, Blood Wen Bin stages subsequently, may reaches blood level with DIC, Embolism, causes bleeding, emergence situation.
  7. Easily damages Qi and Yin, lead fatigue, thirsty, even Qi and Yin collapse, then die from shock, multiple organ function failure.

So, Correspond, the treatment strategy will be Dispels pathogen while strengthens vital Qi.

Treatment principles:

(1) Release wind heat from exterior, clear fire-toxin, those herbs have inhibitory effect over flu viruses include H1N1, such like Jing Yin Hua(Honey suckle flower), Lian Qiao(Forsythia flower), Da Qing Ye, Ban Lan Gen(Woad indigo root and leaf), Guan Zhong( Agueweed ), Clear Yin and cool blood if DIC,or Embolism co-exist .

(2) Nourish Yin to strengthen immune, promote body ability of fight with flu virus: Lu Gen (Reed Rhizome), Gan Cao (licorice root), Tai Zi Shen (Pesudostellaria), Xi Yang Shen (America gingshen), this is very TCM characteristic part.

(3) Symptomatic treatment to cough, high fever vomit, etc.


Recommendation of TCM treatment on 2009H1N1 flu

(Revised from China health ministry Guidance 2009 H1N1 Flu, third edition)

For Acute attack

( 1 ) Wind-heat toxin invade exteriorly

High fever, chilly, sweat, sore throat, cough, headache, body ache, thirsty, poor appetite, or nausea, vomit, fatigue. Red tongue, yellow, thin or grease coating, float and rapid pulse.

Ying Qiao San Modification

Jing Yin Hua 18 (Honey suckle flower )

Lian Qiao 15 ( Forsythia flower )

Da Qing Ye 15 ( Woad indigo leaf )

Guan Zhong 15 ( Agueweed )

Chai Hu 12 ( Thorowax root)

Ge Gen 12 ( Kudzu root )

Jie Gen 12 ( Ballon Flower root )

Xing Ren 15 ( Apricot Kernel )

He Xiang 9 ( Agastache )

Pei Lian6 ( Eupatorium )

Lu Gen20 ( Reed root )

Gan Cao3 ( Licorice root )

( 2 ) Heat toxin obstructs Lung

High fever, sweat, thirsty, strong cough, short breath, yellowish phlegm, chest pain, irritable, fatigue, poor appetite, Red tongue, yellow coating, rapid pulse.

Ying Qiao Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang Modification

Jing Yin Hua 18 (Honey suckle flower )

Lian Qiao 15 ( Forsythia flower )

Mu Huang 12 ( Sang Bai Pi instead ) ( Mulberry bark )

Xing Ren15 ( Apricot Kernel )

Shi Gao 18 ( Gypsum )

Huang Qin 15 ( Scute )

Yu Xin Cao 15 ( Huttuynia )

Qing Dai 12 ( Indigo )

Chuan Bei Mu 15 ( Fritillaria )

Gua Lou 12 ( Trichosanthes fruit )

Mai Meng Dong 12 ( Ophipogon tube )

Gan Cao3 ( Licorice root )

Modifications:

Coma: An Gong Niu Huang Wan ( One of three TCM emergence pattern )

Seizure, convulsion: Zi Bao Dan (One of three TCM emergence pattern)

High Fever: Zhi Xue Dan (One of three TCM emergence pattern)

Yin&Blood heat: Xi Jiao (Water buffalo hornShui Niu Jiao instead), Mu Dan Pi (Cotex of peony root), Chi Shao Yao ( Red peony root )

Heart Lung Qi collapse : Shen Fu tang / Shen Mai San ( Both have injection form )

For prevention

( 1 ) Formula for people with weak immunity for 1-3 weeks

A. Qi Deficiency constitution: Tai Zi Shen (Pesudostellaria) 12 Zhi Su Ye (Perilla leaf) 9 Da Qing Ye (woad indigo leaf)12 Guan Zhong (Agueweed)12

B. Blood deficiency constitution: Ge Gen (Kudzu root) 12, Di Huang (Rehmania) 12, Zhi Su Ye9, Guan Zhong12

C. Yin deficiency constitution: Bai Wei(Radix Cynanchi)12, Shi Hu(Dendrobium)12, Zhi Su Ye9, Cong Bai9, Guang Zhong12

D. Yang deficiency constitution: Cong Bai(Spring onion)9, Shen Jiang9(Ginger)3, Zhi Su Ye9, Fang Feng(Siler leaf)9, Guang Zhong12 Gui Zhi(Cinnamon)12

( 2 ) Formula for people contacted with H1N1 Flu patients

Guan Zhong12 Ban Lan Gen15 Gan Cao3 Zhi Su Ye9

( 3 ) For air disinfection: Ai Ye(Argy Wormwood Leaf ) 12 Cang pu(flag leaf )12 vinegar 100ml add water 500ml steam for 100m2 room.

To use formulae above, you are advised to get a consultation from TCM doctors, since it should be used based on a individual constitution way.

In China, a lot of clinic and laboratory researches for this item are undergoing, preliminary results are quite encouraged, China military Medical science institute and Beijing DiTan Hospital have been treating 483 cases H1N1 Flu in a random, control treatment with Chinese medicine and Tamiflu, all treatment index like duration of fever, cough, fatigue, hospitalization etc, Chinese Medicine group is better and safer by now, there is a significant difference ( p<0.05), anyway, more cases and further study are needed , this research is still ongoing.

( Dr.Shiwu Xiao, http://xiao.uhealing.com )

 

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Chinese herbs defeats flu

  • Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:34
  • Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:36 )
  • Written by fuyicn

The common cold is an acute viral infection that generally causes inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. It is the most common infectious disease in humans, and accounts for more time lost from work or school than any other disease. Flu is an acute and contagious infection of the respiratory tract. Its symptoms include running nose, cough, chills, headache, fever, and severe aching in the muscles and joints. Although flu affects all age groups, schoolchildren have the highest incidence. Although colds and flu are generally of brief duration, they can lead to complications in the very young, the elderly, and those with chronic diseases or compromised immune systems.

Because both cold and flu are viral infections, conventional medicine has no cure for them. Bed rest and increased fluid intake are generally suggested to make the patient more comfortable. Aspirin, nasal decongestants, and other medications such as steam inhalation, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen, amantadline, or rimantadine are prescribed.

In China, these anti-cold and flu formulas will be found in every family's medicine cabinet. It would be almost impossible to find a person in China who has never taken one. Most of these effective and time-tested herbal formulas come from two important schools in traditional Chinese medicine: the school of cold-induced febrile diseases, represented by Zhang Zhongjing (150-219 AD), and the school of seasonal febrile diseases, represented by Wu Jutong (1758-1836).

Using herbal formulas to prevent and treat colds and flu is one of the best-developed and most successful aspects of traditional Chinese medicine. Specific treatment practices and formulas have been handed down unbroken from the earliest schools to the modern universities of China. In this country, more and more people are becoming aware of the existence and efficacy of the ancient cold and flu formulas. At our clinic, TCM Health Center, we see increased demand for this type of treatment, especially among school teachers, who are constantly being exposed to colds. Our clients say that their doctors have been surprised by the effectiveness of Cold & Flu Formula (Yin Qiao San), which is a common and popular formula in China.

Top Antiviral Herbs in Chinese Medicine

Woad Root (Ban Lan Gen)

is one of the leading anti-viral herbs. In a study of over 11,000 people who were exposed to mumps, the infectious manifestation was forestalled by using a decoction of woad root. Woad root tea is the most popular herbal tea to prevent and treat flu in China.

Woad Leaf (Da Qing Ye)

shares similar properties with woad root. In a study of 100 people, only 10% of the treatment group that took a woad leaf decoction twice daily had upper respiratory infections during the study period, while 24% of the control group had infections.

Forsythia Fruit (Lian Qiao) is a pointed, oval-shaped capsule with a hard shell. Because of its anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and immunity-enhancing properties, forsythia fruit is widely used to treat common cold, influenza, swelling and pain in the throat, and skin inflammation. 

Honeysuckle Flower (Jin Yin Hua)

is named "gold-and-silver flower" in Chinese. Research indicates that this flower bud can deactivate the PR8 strain of influenza virus. The study also indicates that honeysuckle works wonderfully to treat other infectious diseases, including pneumonia and viral conjunctivitis.

Baical Skullcap Root (Huang Qin)

is the dried root of scutellaria. It is an anti-viral agent, effective against influenza viruses. This herb and its active substance, baicalin, are used in the treatment of upper respiratory infections, either bacterial or viral.

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How Flu Spreads

  • Friday, 06 November 2009 23:05
  • Written by fuyicn

The main way that influenza viruses are thought to spread is from person to person in respiratory droplets of coughs and sneezes. This can happen when droplets from a cough or sneeze of an infected person are propelled through the air and deposited on the mouth or nose of people nearby. Influenza viruses may also be spread when a person touches respiratory droplets on another person or an object and then touches their own mouth or nose (or someone else’s mouth or nose) before washing their hands.People with 2009 H1N1 flu who are cared for at home should:

  • check with their health care provider about any special care they might need if they are pregnant or have a health condition such as diabetes, heart disease, asthma, or emphysema
  • check with their health care provider about whether they should take antiviral medications
  • keep away from others as much as possible. This is to keep from making others sick. Do not go to work or school while ill
  • stay home for at least 24 hours after fever is gone, except to seek medical care or for other necessities. (Fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.)
  • get plenty of rest
  • drink clear fluids (such as water, broth, sports drinks, electrolyte beverages for infants) to keep from being dehydrated
  • cover coughs and sneezes. Wash hands often with soap and water.  If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand rub.
  • wear a facemask – if available and tolerable – when sharing common spaces with other household members to help prevent spreading the virus to others. This is especially important if other household members are at high risk for complications from influenza.  be watchful for emergency warning signs that might indicate you need to seek medical attention.
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can pets get swine flu?

  • Thursday, 05 November 2009 15:04
  • Written by fuyicn

Dr. Louise Murray, director of medicine at the A.S.P.C.A. Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital in New York City, responds:

On Nov. 2, test results confirmed that H1N1 influenza, also known as the swine flu, had been transmitted to a household cat in Iowa by human family members ill with the virus. Two members of the family had flulike symptoms before their cat also showed signs of being infected.

The cat was tested for H1N1 at Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and results were positive for the virus. All family members, including the cat, have since recovered.

Several pet ferrets also recently became infected with the virus by human family members. There has thus far been one fatality, of a ferret in Nebraska. H1N1 was previously known to have been transmitted to both pigs and turkeys by infected humans.

The H1N1 influenza virus contains genetic material from four different influenza viruses, including human, swine and avian influenza viruses. It was first reported in March of this year in humans in Mexico. The virus was reported in Canadian swine in May, and in turkeys in Chile in August. There have been subsequent reports of infected swine and poultry in multiple geographic areas.

People with flulike symptoms can protect their pets with the same precautions used to minimize transmission of virus between humans. Such measures include washing hands thoroughly, particularly before handling the pet or preparing food; covering coughs and sneezes; and avoiding close contact with the pet during the course of illness.

It is common for pets to share beds and other furniture with humans, and this should be avoided during an illness.

There is no evidence to date of a dog being infected with H1N1, but commonsense measures should be taken with all pets to decrease the likelihood of potential virus transmission, like keeping pets out of the bedroom of anyone with flulike symptoms and away from contaminated objects.

The specific symptoms seen in the Iowa cat were not described, but pet owners concerned about an animal who shows signs of illness after a human family member has come down with influenza should contact their veterinarian. Animals infected with H1N1 generally exhibit mild respiratory symptoms, or none at all.

There is no evidence to date that any human has been infected with influenza by a pet, or of infection being transmitted from one cat to another, from a dog to a cat, or vice versa.

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Swine Flu Vaccine Linked to Paralysis

  • Wednesday, 04 November 2009 06:56
  • Written by fuyicn

It is not any alleged “Swine Flu” or H1N1 “virus” that is the danger to the lives of our loved ones, our children, our pregnant mothers. We are being literally panicked by WHO, CDC, the US Government and uncritical mass media into demanding what amounts to legalized toxins as a “guard” against a disease so far milder than a common cold.

 

The few details that have managed to leak out regarding the contents of the fluids that major pharmaceutical companies want to inject into our veins confirm what I have been writing since the first alleged outbreak of Swine Flu in the environs of a factory pig farm in Veracruz Mexico.

 

The declaration by WHO of  Phase 6 “Pandemic Level” global health emergency was a political decision which had no relation to any proven “virus threat.” It had to do at the least with a multibillion dollar injection of hyper-profits into the coffers of a tiny handful of global vaccine giants—GlaxoSmithKline, Roche (Gilead Science Inc), Baxter Labs, Novartis,  Sanofi Pasteur and a few elite other drug giants.

 

More, the current H1N1 fear campaign from WHO, the German Robert Koch Institute, the US Government’s CDC, appears on serious examination to have to do not with safeguarding the public health, but rather with a long-term agenda of political control of populations through deliberate means of making them ill, weak, partly paralyzed or otherwise too weak to focus on the increasingly obvious social crisis facing us all, the global breakdown of the dollar system. Why else would allegedly responsible governments from the United States to the Federal Republic of Germany, from Britain to France, embrace such a manifest health hoax?

 

The simplest research of a high school pupil using official WHO and other government sources, can demonstrate this. If you doubt this, just commission your school age children to demonstrate, using only official sources, published on the internet, that there is no sound, public health reason to declare any special measures, let alone to authorize “fast track” rollout of new vaccines, untested, for mass injection in the population. Tell them that the students who make the best case from only official sources, will get the top honors in the course.   

 

UK report of neurological damage from vaccine

According to a confidential warning letter written on July 29, 2009, a copy of which was leaked to the British newspaper, Daily Mail, the UK Government’s Health Protection Agency head of Immunization Department, Prof. Elizabeth Miller, warned British neurologists that the swine flu vaccine, which was briefly used in a mass vaccination program in 1976 in the USA until it was abruptly withdrawn because of dangerous side effects, is linked to Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a potentially deadly and nerve crippling of the central nervous system. Guillain-Barre Syndrome attacks the lining of the nerves, causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal. It can cause paralysis of the breathing muscles that can cause death by suffocation.

The warning letter of Prof. Miller states, “The vaccines used to combat an expected swine influenza pandemic in 1976 were shown to be associated with GBS and were withdrawn from use." The US Government was forced in the 1976 Swine Flu scandal to pay out millions of dollars in damages to victims of GBS who had received the vaccine.

The UK Government plans to inject 13 million British citizens beginning October with virtually untested H1N1 vaccines. The British Neurological Surveillance Unit (BNSU), part of the British Association of Neurologists, has been asked to monitor closely any cases of GBS as the vaccine is rolled out. One senior neurologist told the press off-record, “I would not have the swine flu jab because of the GBS risk.”

Miller’s letter was reportedly sent to 600 British neurologists on July 29, a sign that there is concern at the highest levels that the vaccine itself could cause serious complications. The letter notes, referring to the similar swine flu vaccination process in the USA in 1976 that “more people died from the vaccination than from swine flu; some 500 cases of GBS were found; vaccines may have increased risk of GBS by 800%; the US vaccine was withdrawn after just ten weeks when Government scientists confirmed the link with GBS; the US Government then was forced to pay tens of millions of dollars to those affected. They monitored that within days, symptoms of GBS were reported among those who had been immunised and 25 people died from respiratory failure after severe paralysis. One in 80,000 people came down with the condition. In contrast, just one person died of swine flu.

Notably, the Obama Administration has issued a special ruling exempting the vaccine makers from all liability from the vaccines. Most alarming in this context is the fact that the new vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and that the effects, especially on children, are unknown. Yet small children and pregnant mothers are the first priority to be vaccinated under WHO recommendations.


However, as leading European epidemiologists confirm privately, the effects of the so-called H1N1 Influenza A or “Swine Flu” are to date extremely mild, comparable to a common cold and disappear in a few days with bed rest. The deaths, as CDC and other health agencies have had to admit, all took place in patients with previous severe respiratory problems or other severe illness, and have in no known case been definitively linked to Swine Flu. The deaths were what epidemiologists term “opportunistic” that is “coincidental” not causal.


GBS however, which is believed linked to adjuvants present in the new vaccines, can cause paralysis and death. One woman, Hilary Wilkinson, was stricken with GBS and had to be fed through a drip while needing a tracheotomy just to breathe. It took her three months in the hospital to learn how to walk and talk again. On the topic of the swine flu vaccine, she says today, "It makes me feel wary that the Government is rolling out this vaccine without any clear idea of the GBS risk, if any. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."

 

An 800% rise in GBS risk

Another letter with a warning about the swine flu vaccine from the Association of British Neurologists, signed by Dr. Rustam Al-Shahi Salman and Professor Patrick Chinnery, says, "Following the 1976 program of vaccination against swine influenza in the US, a retrospective study found a possible eight-fold increase in the incidence of GBS." That is 800% increase after vaccination of 40 million Americans was done on a similar “health emergency” basis before abruptly being withdrawn. The 1976 swine flu mass vaccination campaign was abandoned after hundreds of cases of GBS were diagnosed and 25 died.

An emergency mass vaccination program was backed by President Gerald Ford that year because Center for Disease Control head, Dr. David Sencer, convinced the White House that the swine flu strain was similar to the one responsible for the 1918-19 pandemic, which he claimed had killed half a million Americans and 20 million people worldwide. Sencer was forced to resign in disgrace months later. The current CDC and WHO hysteria campaign over “H1N1 Influenza A Swine Flu” bears ominous similarities to that of 1976. 

According to the British Dr Tom Jefferson, co-ordinator of the vaccines section of the influential Cochrane Collaboration, an independent British group that reviews drug research, says, “New vaccines never behave in the way you expect them to. It may be that there is a link to GBS, which is certainly not something I would wish on anybody. But it could end up being anything because one of the additives in one of the vaccines is a substance called squalene, and none of the studies we’ve extracted have any research on it at all.” Squalene, a naturally occurring enzyme, could potentially cause so-far-undiscovered side effects.

 

In other words, what we have with the new versions of H1N1 “swine flu” vaccine is an untested, potentially dangerous cocktail of chemicals and viral fragments that could plausibly be linked to a devastating neurological condition, or worse.

 

The doctors and scientists are warning about the possibility of dangerous neurological side effects precisely because the government is failing to do so. Governments and pharmaceutical companies don't want people to know about risks associated with the vaccine, so they don't talk about them. Nor do they reveal the rather startling fact that the vaccine has never been tested on children or expectant mothers even though those are the two primary groups being targeted for the vaccine.

 

Vaccines are the bedrock of the pharmaceutical industry's profit centers. Through vaccines, the drug companies can ensure generations of future profits from diseases that have been identified in numerous studies as triggered or worsened by vaccines, including Alzheimer's, cancer, autism, Parkinson's disease, and others.

British Conservative Party Health Parliament Spokesman, Mike Penning has stated, “The last thing we want is secret letters handed around experts within the NHS. Our job is to make sure that the public knows what’s going on. Why is the Government not being open about this? It’s also very worrying if doctors, who will be administering the vaccine, aren’t being warned.”


F. William Engdahl is a frequent contributor to Global Research.  Global Research Articles by F. William Engdahl

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