Jade Screen Formula was developed originally as a treatment for spontaneous sweating that was due to deficiency syndrome or was the result of a pathological influence still lodged in the surface. More recently, it has become a therapy for prevention of cold, flu, and allergic rhinitis, and a treatment for viral infections, nephritis, and other disorders. These newer uses are derived both from an analysis of the formula by traditional principles and from successful applications of this tonic formula to patients who show signs of deficiency syndrome. Research indicates that …

Currently, two drugs marketed as Tamiflu and Relenza are approved for the treatment of influenza.
In this study, authors have focused on developing strategies to inhibit viral infections and other diseases by naturally occurring nutrients, rather than prophylaxes.
They test the efficacy of a unique nutrient mixture (NM), which contains ascorbic acid, green tea extract, lysine, proline, N-acetyle cysteine, selenium, and other micronutrients. This mixture was thought to have anti-carcinogenic and anti-atherogenic properties that combat influenza A virus subtype H1N1 multiplication in infected cells. Anti-carcinogenic agents are those that stop the accumulation …

Rehmannia Six Formula is comprised of three pairs of herbs, each pair incorporating an herb that gently tonifies and an herb that gently drains or disperses (these actions often referred to as “purging”).
Aside from the formula’s balancing of tonification and dispersing actions on the organs, the dispersing herbs are seen as preventing adverse effects of the tonic herbs: alisma and hoelen prevent the greasy quality of rehmannia from causing indigestion; moutan prevents excessive warming of the liver by cornus (2, 14). Further, one can depict a nutritive scheme encompassing these …

There is little doubt that a Westernized diet–often high in fat, cholesterol, and sugar–contributes to a variety of diseases, prominently obesity and cardiovascular disease. An increase in fresh fruit and vegetable consumption could reduce the risk of these diseases. Both fruits and vegetables contain an antioxidant called quercetin. Quercetin–like all antioxidants–hunts for damaging particles in the body called free radicals; quercetin then neutralizes the free radicals and reduces or even prevents the damage from happening. Previous studies have found that quercetin may reduce the severity of allergies and asthma, rheumatoid …