3 famous herbal formulas for cold & flu season

these formulas have been the secret weapon of Chinese doctors for thousands of years one famous doctor was named Jang Jong Jing and he lived between the year 150 and let's say 210 ad that's almost 2,000 years ago and he wrote a very very famous Internal Medicine book full of herbal formulas I still use to this day and in the preface to his text he said due to pandemics and epidemics he lost 2third of his family over the period of several decades and that's what prompted him to dedicate his life to studying medicine and he searched far and wide for these famous herbal formulas that were effective and within this book that he's transmitted to us are the most effective prescriptions that he was able to find one of the notes he left in there was use these formulas to safeguard your own health and your own life so in this video I want to share a few famous formulas what the herbs are in these herbal prescriptions and how they can actually help hey guys I'm Dr Alex hin board licensed doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine and author of the health book Master of the day so let's jump in now this time of year is right around that cold and flu season that first cold snap is where pretty much everybody starts to get sick that is susceptible remember according to traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine typically you only get sick if you are immunal compromised in some way I mean one of our classic quotes says the balanced person doesn't get sick I'm not a very balanced person because I shoot these videos after working a full week in the clinic but there's something very important here in the last few weeks or so my formulas that have been given to patients four five six seven of them have told me but my whole family has gotten sick and for the first time I didn't get sick while the FDA requires me to not say these formulas can actually treat prevent or cure anything in reality these formulas are very very effective at not preventing you from getting sick so clinically speaking you often will see that patients that are on certain formulas get sick a lot less frequently will often be the only person in their family who didn't catch the cold or the flu going around and and if they are sick they recover much much more quickly so the first Formula here is a Formula called gager Tang or cinnamon twig decoction lest you think this is just some cinnamon powder you got at Trader Joe's you put in your oatmeal this is medical grade stuff that first of all is at a dosage 20 to 100 times stronger than what cinnamon you'd put in your oatmeal second of all this is from cinnamon twig or cinnamon bark and these are traditionally trees that are aged for decades and they are very very very highly concentrated this particular formula is comprised of five herbs gager which is cinnamon twig you can also use cinnamon bark BHA which is PE shung Jang which is ginger fresh daa which is Juju bate and janso which is honey fried licorice root now guong is sort of a traditional ancient remedy for low immunity for people with a susceptibility to colds and flu for people who tend towards having that runny or drippy nose throughout the winter season and a lot of postnasal drip it also has lots of very good benefits that help help with just your overall nervous system regulation very good for anxiety very very good for overall improving digestive function because these warming stimulating herbs will often improve appetite they're often very good for bloating they're very good for sio and so this formula often is traditionally used for let's say 3 months in Winter if you know that come February you're always getting sick in December start off at a half dose of this formula a non-interventional dose as if you were sick and you basically would take it for several months at a time the second formula here is something called uping funan and this is often translated in English as Jade windscreen powder now the breakdown of the herbs in this Formula First of all are called hangi it's a high dose of an herb called hangi which is aralis now aralis has many many different uses but it is often used for low immunity and chronic fatigue so this herb hangi is often used in thyroid issues it's used in low immunity and it's used for all kinds of General exhaustion hangi in this case is often used in in a very high dose depending on the practitioner or the doctor that you see the second herb is called BYU or atractylodes now atract loes is an herb that we typically say helps drain dampness so for people that have issues with poor bile flow poor enzyme production in the pancreas lots of bloating lots of food allergies formulas containing BYU are often very very commonly indicated here but BYU is one of the best herbs for your digestive system overall and the final one is NB called fang Fang or saposhnikovia now Fang Fang isn't an herb that we say releases the surface when you view yourself having a cold or a flu you know these ancient doctors said what is the location of illness and what is the depth of illness a runny stuffy nose like I have now is different from someone who's let's say urinating blood because they have a UTI this is totally different in terms of the depth and the severity so they would view for example a cold they would call a surface issue well you would take surface relieving herbs to help kick this cold out of the surface so for example a cold that's at the surface might just be stuffy nose little bit of post-nasal drip low- grade headache but then as it goes more interior you may have sore throat cough bronchitis Etc this is an herb that we say strengthens and opens up that surface now for some people one of the reasons they have low immunity is they have a constantly disregulated nervous system heightened stress hormones they're not sleeping well they're anxious they're on edge all the time so I'm actually doing a onetime live Workshop coming up in a couple weeks here now I usually only do one Workshop per season once per quarter and last time the spaces were limited to 500 seats and we filled up every single seat but the link right below this video is for this Workshop five daily practices to decrease anxiety levels and regulate your nervous system this is really a traditional Chinese medicine approach to regulating your adrenals anxiety and your overall nervous system response so check the link out right below this video you guys again this is a onetime thing I just do once per season so come on in we're going to just do a whole hourlong workshop and then I'll answer Q&A As Long As You Are there so check it out the link right below this video now there's a final formula here often used for low immunity and this one is called shuyuan this formula Shuan is very unique because it's basically a Han Dynasty multivitamin that's how the doctors I studied with described it it's a low dose of 25 herbs and basically what it is is to strengthen the internal organ function what that looks like biomedically is improved immunity improved blood flow improve lymphatic flow rebalance microbiome regulated nervous system improve detox pathways liver and kidneys and it has a whole host of other herbs that are Interventional in nature but they are taken at a very low dose for several months at a time when you're really run down or when you know you're working really long hours and you're not sleeping well so you know you're probably going to get sick because of where you are right now so this is taken like a multivitamin for several months at a time really to shore up your resources strengthen your reserves and boost your immunity in that way as well now don't forget guys I work with a limited number of new patients every single week in my clinic in Los Angeles or virtually via tele medicine if you want to reach out and become a patient 1:1 just go to Dr alex.com clinic and reach out there or go to the description below this video because we have the clinic phone number our email Etc if you want to reach out and book something with me there and one final thing before you go check out this other related video because I share a few other formulas we didn't talk about here for boosting immunity and really helping you just strengthen your resources