I can\u2019t imagine having to continue to take the toxic synthetic drugs for another 40 years! I would have been long gone and no longer writing, or fast-walking 20 to 25 miles a week at my age, a young 88. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coming from tropical Hong Kong to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for graduate studies in 1962, I developed hay fever within 3 years. The attending physician in the student\u2019s health service took one look at me and extended to me his greeting, \u201cWelcome to hay fever town!\u201d Since then, I had to take all kinds of drugs (antihistamines, nasal decongestants, etc.) for at least 20 years and suffered through all the side effects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, between the 1st<\/sup> edition (1980) and 2nd<\/sup> edition (1996) of my Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics<\/em><\/strong> (Wiley), I was seriously involved in building a library of Chinese herbal medicines while growing my business to include a manufacturing facility<\/strong> and a lab<\/strong>. By around 2000 my library had probably the best and the most extensive collection of traditional Chinese herbal books and journals in America in a single location. That was when my company, Phyto-Technologies, won a SBIR research grant for $1.5M. All the above information is recorded in the memoir<\/strong> part of my last book, My Life & Rollercoaster Career<\/em><\/strong> (CreateSpace\/Amason, 2018). <\/p>\n\n\n\n After over 20 years of taking synthetic drugs for months yearly, the magnolia flower buds<\/strong> got rid of my hay fever. No more synthetic drugs for my hay fever or runny nose since around mid 1980s. Now, whenever it strikes me, maybe once to a few times yearly, xinyi<\/em><\/strong> always works. So far this year, a couple of weeks ago it struck me again. But all I did was to take 1 dose of xinyi<\/em> (2-3 tablespoons of crushed buds in a cup, filling it \u00be full with boiling water, let stand for ~10 min & screened off the fuzz). Yesterday, it was a bad one, I sneezed not long after getting up in the morning and my nose was dripping. As I needed to go out and I didn\u2019t want to keep blowing and wiping my nose. So, I took a dose 30 minutes before I went out. The sneezing and dripping stopped in 10 to 15 minutes. I was able to interact with others with not much inconvenience. When I came home 4 hours later, I didn\u2019t want to use a handkerchief anymore that day, so I took another dose. I slept with no problems last night. It\u2019s now early evening; my hay fever is no longer there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here, I want to make one point about natural medicines. Unlike synthetics, we have tried unsuccessfully to make using them precisely scientific at least for a short time, like the past 8 decades. We still have to depend on the trial-and-error experience<\/strong> just as our ancestors. These synthetic drugs would have disappeared decades or a century ago if not for the vicious cycle <\/strong>(VC) they continue to cause. By now, if you have not heard of the VC<\/strong>, you are either asleep, a synthetic drug maker and peddler, or an interdependent associate (insurance agent, advertiser, promotor, or crooked politician). Please ponder it! Our poor health is mostly caused by synthetic chemicals (drugs & additives).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I can\u2019t imagine having to continue to take the toxic synthetic drugs for another 40 years! I would have been long gone and no longer writing, or fast-walking 20 to 25 miles a week at my age, a young 88. Coming from tropical Hong Kong to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for graduate studies in 1962, I … <\/p>\n