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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for Seasonal Allergy Relief
High tree pollen counts are already being reported in areas like Texas as some trees have already started to bloom. Hence allergy sufferers will be looking to seek relief from the allergens that ails them. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for Seasonal Allergy Relief is the 3rd hub that addresses seasonal allergy symptoms. The 1stHome Remedies for Seasonal Allergies reveals changes that should be made within ones home to assist in keeping valuable space between the allergy sufferer and the allergens that are causing the symptoms. Home Remedies for Seasonal Allergy Symptoms offers steps that can provide allergy relief from dust, pollen, and other seasonal allergens.
As the East continues to offer the West great alternative medicines for numerous things that ails us, I thought it would be interesting to see what allergy treatments there are for those of us that have a continual bout with seasonal allergies. For those that may not know traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is at least 3000 years and encompasses Chinese herbology, nutritional therapy and exercise, massage, and acupuncture. The foundation of TCM is the concept Qi (pronounced chee) which is the life force or vital energy. Qi is the force that warms us, promotes functions of the body and keeps our organs and tissues in place, and it protects us from external pathogenic factors. In order words, TCM is the yin and yang idea that relates to an opposite but complementary relationship between events. Cold/hot and night/day are examples of yin/yang.
Chinese Herbology
I've learned there are thousands of herbs involved in the Chinese pharmacopia, consisting of plants, minerals, and animal products. A Chinese herb remedy may consist of 3 to 20 herbs and can come in numerous forms like herbal tinctures, tablets, and capsules. An experienced herbalist in TCM can perform a health assessment of the allergy sufferer and devises a remedy designed specifically for an individual. While watching the videos and doing my research I was reminded of what a pharmacist would do in the West.
Allergy Relief
Sometimes a western prescription has to be prepared from several formulas and made into one to meet an individual's specific needs. While this concoction is helpful in assisting the patient to heal when mixed just right. The ingredients taken separately or mixed incorrectly can be a lethal dose. Well the same goes for herbs that are used within alternative medicine. Therefore the herbs that are reviewed within this hub are for informational purposes only. Do not attempt to mix and match these herbs on your own and remember that "more does not mean better," it might be a lethal dose that could harm and or kill you.
Here are some TCM herbs that might be found in a mixture to provide allergy treatment of seasonal allergens:
Xin Yi Hua (Magnolia Flower )
The Magnolia flowers have a distinct lack of sepals or petals, and are touch, believed to have evolved before the appearance of bees, to avoid damage by eating and crawling beetles. Flowers range from white to this deep purple.The bark is stripped from stems, branches, and roots to be used in traditional Chinese medicine.
The magnolia flower has pungent and warm properties, and is associated with the lung and stomach meridians. Magnolia flower is typically used to treat nasal conditions, such as stuffy nose, nasal obstructions, congestion, and sinus headaches. An ointment of magnolia flower can also be applied to the skin and has proved to demonstrate both anti-anxiety and anti-angiogenic properties
Cang Er Zi San (Xanthium Powder)
In the West this plant is called the Cocklebur and if you've ever been stuck by one you would remember it. They are coarse annual plants with spirally arranged leaves, and the burs are very long, slender spines that are at the leaf base.
It has been said to be nature's Dristan.The TCM formula would be better in powdered form than capsules; it is very aromatic and better therapeutically to taste than to hide in capsules.
Experiments show that Cang Er Zi has a significant inhibitory effect on histamine-induced increase in capillary permeability. Think of it as a cup of Vick's Mentholatum tea. The formula is being considered in the treatment of a sinus headache, and maybe used with another formula for stuffy nose headaches due to the common cold.
Ban Lan Gen (Isatis Root)
In the West this plant is referred to as the Woad flower and it known to produce a blue dye. This dye chemical is extracted from the plant to produce the color indigo. TCM uses the roots of the woad which are harvested and dried during autumn. The harvested dried root is then processed into granules and dissolved in hot water or tea.
Ban Lan Gen's main function is to help clear away heat and toxic material, remove heat from the blood, subdue swelling, and relieve sore throats, and is used to treat fevers that come with the flu. B an Lan Gen Instant Beverage (isatis) feels cooling and relaxing as it reduces swollen glands and sore throat and clears complexion blemishes.
- Ban Lan Gen - Home Remedies - Page 1 - Mamaherb
Ban Lan Gen home remedies and treatments: Learn about home remedies, treatment and cures using Ban Lan Gen for different conditions and ailments. is also known as Woad Root, Isatis Root, Radix Isatidis seu Baphicacanthi.
Huo xiang (Patchouli)
This is a bushy herb of the mint family with erect stems and small pale pink-white flower. Patchouli has a heavy and strong scent and has been used in perfumes for centuries. Steam scalding the leaves of this plant causes it to produce its essential oils. TCM uses the herb to treat headaches, common colds, nausea, and abdominal pain. It acts to disperse cold and dampness to remove external symptoms and harmonize the stomach. It is said to be a household Chinese medicine in China for gastrointestinal discomfort and widely used in traveling and outdoor activities, especially during the summer time. Personally, I have burned herbal Patchouli candles and have gotten relief from sinus headaches.
Ju hua (Chrysanthemum Flower)
Chrysanthemum or mums as they are called in the West are plants with large flower heads and deeply lobed leaves that range in variety of colors ranges from white, yellow or pink and more. As you may know this plant has many uses from eating, insecticidal, and medicinal. It is commonly consumed China almost as much as green tea.
Used in TCM for symptoms might include common cold and flu signs such as headache, slight chills/fever, dizziness, swelling, red painful, and/or itchy eyes, blurred vision, irritability and skin rash. This is another herb that I've used before however, I did not know of its medicinal qualities. A Vietnamese friend of my gave me the tea as a gift and it has an excellent taste.
Fang feng (Ledebouriella Root)
Ledebouriella Root or Fang feng means guard against the wind and it used to treat the wind/cold type of symptoms of chills, fever, headaches, and general body pain.
It dispels pathogenic wind (heat) from the body surface and purges away the dampness heat from the interior part of the body, as manifested by dryness in the mouth, discomfort of the throat, sensation of stuffiness in the chest, constipation, dark urine, local signs of inflammation, and skin eruptions. The herb specifically inhibits some influenza viruses and in vitro shigella and staphylococcus germs and is used for sore throat, headaches, and redness of eyes.
- Fang Feng (Radix Sileris)
Fang Feng (Radix Sileris)
E bu shi cao (Centipeda Herb)
Centipeda Herb is collected at flowering in summer and autumn that is removed from the soil and dried in the sun. Centipeda herb opens nasal passages, reduces swelling, relieves toxicity, and disperses pathogens. Used as an allergy treatment for a cough, headaches, nasal obstructions, expectorations, sinusitis with nasal discharge, and sore throat. This drug would be acute conditions that block nasal passages and sinuses; to decrease toxic and traumatic swelling, and localized pain from painful obstruction.
Bo he (wild mint or Chinese mint)
Bo he is a herbaceous perennial plant with flowers that are pale purple, white, or pink. The leaves which are in opposite pairs and the stems are harvested from this plant. It is nontoxic and is suitable for treating children.
Expels common cold of wind-heat type; treats headache, eye pain, sore throat and sinus congestion; alleviate itching; and eases indigestion.
It is highly aromatic and pungent, and has been widely used as spice or herbal tea. Possess soothing property and is best for treating common cold and minor digestive distress.
Zi su ye (Perilla Leaf)
Perilla Leaf is another member of the mint family and is an annual herb. The leaves a slightly rounder in shape and there are both green-leafed varieties and purple-leafed varieties. It has anti-inflammatory properties and is thought to help preserve and sterilize other foods.
Perilla leaf is used to relieve allergy symptoms for cold invasion with symptoms of chills, fever, headache, nasal congestion, and cough. It should not be used by allergy sufferers who have external diseases where there is already sweating or by those who have a damp-heat condition.
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I hope you have found the Traditional Chinese Medicine for Seasonal Allergy Relief both helpful and informative. Please remember however if you want to give TCM a try I strongly suggest that you seek an experienced herbalist and or doctor prior to mixing any alternative medicines with the drugs (prescription or herbal) you are presently taking. And as always comments are always welcome.
Disclaimer: This information is solely for informational purposes. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE. Before engaging in any complementary medical technique, including the use of natural or herbal remedies, you should do your own research, and then consult your present physician. If your doctor does not believe in alternative medicines and you would like to give them a try then find a reputable doctor familiar with alternative medicines that can assist you in deciding what treatments might meet your specific needs.
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I like the idea of natural treatments so I will need to check this out.
This is a great hub :) Lots of unique and really detailed information. It's a good-looking hub too lol--I love the layout and the pictures.
Unusual hub, both actually informative and well put together for ads - love it !!
Thanks! I'll need this in a few weeks!
One traditional medicine or herb used by the Chinese is Yin Yang. Zang is used for emotional disharmony. Some of their herbs and medicine simply enhance mood and increase blood circulation throughout the body.
I have seasonal allergy and this one helps a lot, Your hub is complete and magnolia is one of my fav flower as well, it does help with allergy, good job and thumbs up again Money, Maita
Nice hub. I'm very familiar with chrysanthemum and fang feng. Chrysanthemum can be steeped to drink as tea and fang feng can be added to herbal soup. Thanks for these interesting information.
You are amazing . Another fantastic Hub!
Great Stuff , I know you will keep on Hubbing
Thank You !
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Corel Q1 disappoints
Hopes still riding on Linux growth
There was disappointment yesterday at Corel's Q1 results, probably because the company is still perceived to be mainly a hard-pressed Microsoft-competitor with WordPerfect and some graphics products, rather than as a Linux distributor merging with a tools developer as a result of the Inprise/Borland acquisition. The loss for the quarter was $12.4 million on revenues of $44.1 million, with $29.3 million in cash, compared with $18 million a quarter earlier. This was better than a year earlier - a loss of $14.6 million on $40.43 million (with half the amount of cash). However, the result, was considerably down on the previous quarter, which achieved income of $60.9 million, albeit with an exceptional item. The productivity applications contributed $22.5 million during the quarter, just over half the revenue, up relatively but down absolutely in view of the maturity of the market and the product cycle. The graphics business produced $19.4 million, and there could be some boost from a Linux version of Corel Draw later in the year. There was some financial-analyst unease at the unexpectedness of the results, but since so few deign to follow the company in detail, this was not really surprising. The criteria that have been used to judge performance in the past have largely have to be abandoned, and in any event, Corel's Linux business would appear to be in better financial shape than that of the other major Linux distributors. With CEO Michael Cowpland having forecast Linux revenue of $20 to $30 million in the financial year, there was considerable interest in the figure for Linux revenue. It turned out to be a rather disappointing $2.3 million, but in view of the fact that Corel offers a free download, again this is not so unexpected. Cowpland said he still thinks that $20 million is achievable from Linux revenue this year. He wants Corel to be judged like the other Linux distributors, where substantial losses are the norm - at least at the moment - and to receive recognition that Corel had done what it was said could not be achieved: creating a desktop market for Linux. The one cheery announcement was that WordPerfect Office for Linux was sent for manufacturing yesterday morning. There will be two editions: a standard one for $129, and a deluxe edition for $159 (recommended prices), which will have in addition Paradox, Communicator, more fonts, clip art images and photographs, as well as an entertainment pack. The standard edition includes WordPerfect 9, QuattroPro 9, Presentations 9, CorelCentral 9, and of course Corel Linux OS with updates. It was somewhat surprising that Corel does not see the WordPerfect suite making a big impact in the next two quarters, since it said it expected "results for the next two quarters will mirror those experienced this quarter". Presumably this reflects costs associated with the Inprise merger. Cowpland said that he expected shareholders of both companies to agree to the merger, probably in May, and that no changes in the terms were contemplated. ®

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My biggest problem in the whole world right now is the county (and soon-to-be state) -wide ban on "single use" bags in stores.
As I sit here trying to type this up, I realize that it's completely counter to how I usually roll for this to be so disruptive for me. I'm all about reusing things and minimizing waste. But don't they have anything better to do and this is totally driving me nuts.
I do the majority of my grocery shopping at Costco and Trader Joe's, and neither of those stores offer plastic bags anyway. But I also shop at Target and Party City and shoe stores and whatnot and it didn't used to be AGAINST THE LAW for them to give me a bag.
It makes me want to do all my shopping on Amazon just to avoid the hassle. The problem there is that the milk on Amazon is a little to fancy for my taste.
The reviewers seem to like it though. We should probably just get a cow.
Lego Problems
We are a devoted Lego family. But I have a HUGE problem with the Lego Friends "girl Lego" sets.
The Lego Friends figures are basically just tiny Bratz dolls, totally lame in comparison with the iconic Lego Minifigures.
I remember when girls could play with all the Legos, not just the pink ones.
The little girl from this 1981 Lego ad is now a doctor, practicing medicine in Seattle.
You can read more here:
The Little Girl from the 1981 LEGO Ad is All Grown Up, and She's Got Something to Say
Olympic Problems
But we ALL loved the Ladies Skeleton.
I was so excited to follow Noelle Pikus Pace's Olympic story, and see the way she balances her family life with her personal goals.
Purse Problems
- It's my favorite thing in here.
- Wow, I really have a lot of these.
- I've been looking for those.
- Huh. THAT shouldn't be in there.
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The contribution of Hamas and Hezbollah–irresponsibly said by Tel Aviv and Washington to be inspired and masterminded by Tehran and Damascus, even Al Qaeda–to the latest Israeli-Palestinian crisis is neither excused nor minimized by nevertheless insisting that it is deeply rooted in the history of Zionism. And one may ask, then, whether the barbarous assaults on Gaza and Lebanon have not revealed the bankruptcy of nearly sixty years of Israeli policy.
To the extent there is an axis of anti-Zionist, allegedly anti-Semitic holy warriors, Israel's leaders bear a heavy responsibility. Since the founding of the state in 1948, they have fomented the rise of Palestinian extremism and its international supporters by pursuing a unilateralist course, by impeding good-faith negotiations and by failing to encourage moderate Palestinians. The political-military caste, trusting inordinately in the sword and under the aegis of an imperial superpower, began, precipitated or all but invited five cross-border wars and has waged its internal war against the Palestinian resistance with a brutal indifference to innocent civilians. With Goliath-like hubris and a self-righteousness nourished by the Holocaust complex, Israel's governors and, by and large, its Jewish citizenry are unmindful or dismissive of anyone questioning some of the central premises of the Zionist-Israeli project and policy. Yet these were once challenged by a loyal opposition of public intellectuals within the fold.
Judging by his political writings, Martin Buber, standing on the shoulders of Ahad Ha'am, the guiding spirit of cultural and ethical Zionism, was perhaps the most probing and eloquent voice in this cluster of foresighted critics who included, among others, Yitzhak Epstein, Judah Magnes and Ernst Simon. Prominent in Germany before the war as a scholar of Hasidism, philosopher, Zionist and social activist, Buber had already penned his seminal exploration of the Other, I and Thou, before moving to Jerusalem in 1938. Were he still alive, Buber would most likely contend that there is no understanding the Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio and its worldwide repercussions without exploring the vexed "Arab Question" in the unfolding and consummation of Zionism. For him the question concerned, in essence, "the relationship between Jewish settlement and Arab life, or, as it may be termed, the intranational [intraterritorial] basis of Jewish settlement."


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By Vladimir Campos
It's neither a wireless communicator nor a Visor handheld. It looks like the Treo 180 family, but it's not a wireless device. It's a Palm OS handheld, but there is no Graffiti area. It's a Handspring device, but there is no Springboard slot. The Treo 90 (at http://www.handspring.com/products/treo90) is yet another Handspring innovation, and it's pictured in Figure A.FIGURE A
The Treo 90 is a handheld like no other. (click for larger image)
The screen
Although the screen has 160 x 160 pixels, it's smaller than the average handheld screen, measuring the same as the Palm m100 series screens. The smaller screen size and the excellent job Handspring engineering did make the Treo 90 very small. It's even smaller than the Palm m500 or Palm V series devices.
Since we're talking about the screen, let's understand it a little better. Handspring adopted a technology called Transflective STN (SuperTwist Nematic), instead of the TFT (Thin Film Transistor). The Transflective STN has some advantages over the TFT such as lower cost and the ability to use direct sunlight to enhance the brightness of the display. However, it has a slower display for graphics and a poorer viewing angle. But these are technical details that can be noticed only in a side-by-side comparison. What really matters, in my opinion, is the response of the handheld on a daily basis use. During the tests that I did, I didn't really notice any difference in the screen quality or speed.
Handspring has also opted to use a HotSync cable instead of a cradle. It was a great idea since the cable was built in such a manner that users can connect it with the USB port on the desktop and also to an A/C adapter for power. To turn the HotSync cable into a travel A/C cable, all you have to do is disconnect the power cable from the USB cable and bring it along with you.
Like the rest of the Treo devices, the Treo 90 is among the first Handspring handhelds without a Springboard slot. Handspring adopted the SD/MMC (Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard) open standard to keep the handheld as small as possible. The expansion slot is shown in Figure B.FIGURE B
The Treo 90 uses the SD/MMC expansion slot.
You can read more about this in my article, "Battle lines drawn in expansion war" in the August 2002 issue of PalmPower at http://www.palmpower.com/issues/issue200208/expansion001.html. Unfortunately, the Treo 90 SD/MMC slot doesn't have SDIO (Secure Digital Input/Output) characteristics, meaning that accessories like a Bluetooth card will not work. The slot is only capable of writing and reading SD/MMC memory cards. I contacted Handspring about this, and they told me they will be releasing software to turn the slot into an SDIO slot.


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Piracy fear campaign
Fear tactics persist in the education of youth and parents about digital issues. This time the "be afraid" message is echoed by the National Center for State Courts, Wired blogger David Kravets reports. In this case it's packaged into a 24-page leaflet in the form of a comic book which is being distributed to 50,000 students nationwide. One of the storylines is about how "criminal" teen file-sharer Megan's grandmother has to "fight eminent domain proceedings to keep her house while Megan … deals with the charges against her." The story goes that Megan had learned "to download music from a friend. About 2,000 downloads and three months later, a police officer from the fictitious City of Arbor, knocks on her door, and hands her a criminal summons to appear in court." In fact, Kravets reports, "criminal copyright infringement is when somebody sells pirated works and not sharing on a peer-to-peer network. And it's the federal government, not local cities, which prosecute the criminal cases." For perspective on this issue, see "Cyberethics: Downloading Music from the Internet" from University of Missouri-based eMINTS and "Young People, Music & the Internet" from London-based Childnet International.