Chinese cough remedies

[GeneChing]

I met with herbox last friday and he gave me this delightful tin of Chinese cough drops. It occurred to me that I really like Chinese cough drops. They've often got a nice herbal mix that's every effective. So I'm starting this thread to review cough drops. In China, you cough a lot in the cities.

Golden Throat (quiet clear spring sweets) - these are popular around Shaolin and one of my favs. Very cooling flavor and reminiscent of vicks but with more kick - I feel like one of those breath mint commercials. Not sure what's in them. I've never bothered to translate the Chinese - besides it'd probably scare me. They are little yellow lozenges and come in a little cardboard box.

Shenfeng herbal throat soothing candy - this the award for the coolest tin - rounds, with a beautiful Chinese pattern and this snap-tight lid, with individually sealed lozenges inside. It's loquat syrup based, plus honey and menthol. Very tasty and soothing.

Wang Lao Ji Herbal Candy - this is what herbox turned me on to. Sugar, trumpet flower seed, knotweed leaf, liquorice root, menthol. For some reason, the flavor reminds me of Ban Lan Gen slightly with an herbal rooty taste underneath the sugar. They're very effective.

[herb ox]

Well, that should quiet things down in the office for awhile

Seriously, though, Wang Lao Ji has become one of my favorites. I really enjoy the herbal flavor (I am the herb ox, after all!) and they really seem to work. I'm not so fond of the ultra-strong menthol lozenges - the extreme cooling action disrupts the fire in my belly.

Then there's the honey loquat candy - with the syrup inside... mmmm! I got these originally at 99 ranch for just a little more than a buck - I am a tremendous fan of Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa - the best (and I do mean best since there are many impostors and spinoffs) cough syrup I've ever had. The syrup inside these little drops is just like Pei Pa Koa. Good stuff. Sounds like the Shenfeng drops only without the fancy tin.

The best part is, I can get these fairly cheap even up here in the cultural flatlands of the North Bay.

enjoy,

brother ox

[GeneChing]

Gigi just gave me some Watermelon Frost tablets. They're ok. You get about 8 in a little sealed package...not sure how many of these package come in a box, tho. She's given them to me before. They're like watermelon flavored vicks, if you can imagine that.

[GeneChing]

I just picked up some of their Tangerine-Lemon herbal candy. It's ok. Sweet. mild. A tad too expensive for what you get in my mind, and I can't stand the tin because it's bright orange and hard to open when you're driving. It's Indonesian though, so not truly Chinese, but why be exclusianist.

Funny, I thought this thread was longer.

[David Jamieson]

Not CHinese, but up here in canuck land we have a little thing called "fisherman's friend" and sweet jebas they are the best cough drop you can get here bar none.

the expectorant mentioned, the Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa is pretty good for bringing up a lot of phlegm that is stuck, but I don't find it to be stopping of coughs.

For that, you want opiates...or the next best thing dextramethorphine! mmmdxm kills coughs dead... but it will also make you curl up into a ball and sleep for 16 hours. ;D

[GeneChing]

Fisherman's Friend has a great website. But back OT, I cannot recommend Nin Jiom Tangerine-lemon herbal candy. The packaging sucks. The round tin is hard to open and the individually-wrapped lozenges get all stuck to the paper. The product isn't that effective. I think I'm still most partial to Golden Throat for sentimental reasons - it reminds me of Shaolin.

[TenTigers]

I usually pop some gum cho in my mouth, for a sore or dry throat. Of course, you're left with a mothfull of wood pulp, and splinters .
Hey, howz that line go?
"You don't tell anyone I have a wooden.****,
and I won't tell anyone you got splinters on your tongue.