Winter melon (white gourd, ash gourd, fuzzy melon) has moderate effects to help treat urine retention, lung abscess and asthma, cirrhosis, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and obesity. To help improve the symptoms of urine retention, cirrhosis with…
Mango can be used to relieve motion sickness, nausea and vomiting. Motion sickness (kinetosis, travel sickness, car sickness, sea sickness, or air sickness) is a response to movement when people on a moving car, a boat, or an airplane. The…
Purslane (Portulaca oleracea, Ma Chi Xian, 马齿苋) is said to have effects to prevent and help treat E. Coli and dysentery. Purslane is a common weed. If you have a backyard, you are almost sure to find this herb. It…
Seaweed (kombu, kelp, hai dai, 海带) can be used to treat pharyngitis and sore throat. Kombu is edible kelp from the family Laminariaceae widely eaten in East Asia – China, Japan and Korea. Kombu seaweed grows in the sea of…
Pomegranate is used in folk Chinese remedies as an astringent to treat chronic diarrhea and dysentery, hematochezia, uterine bleeding and other symptoms. Pomegranate, according to traditional Chinese medicine, is a warming, sweet and sour fruit, the rind of the fruit…
If you have constipation, orange remedies can help. Constipation, or chronic constipation, is a common disturbance of the digestive tract. It can be painful and uncomfortable. The most common symptoms of constipation are infrequency, irregularity or difficulty in elimination of…
