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Post by Lone Traveller on Nov 13, 2006 6:22:09 GMT 7
Hi to all the seasoned expats out there. I need some help, again.  Until a few years back I suffered with chronic tonsillitis. I had them removed but every winter I still get "phantom symptoms" (as the Dr's call it).  I got sick when I first arrived in China, back in March and it took me months to shake it because the truck load of Chinese medicine the recommended didn't do a thing. I thought maybe my body was still trying to adjust and thats why it wasn't responding. However, now the phantoms have returned and I'm now at a loss for what to take for it. My voice is almost gone, I'm swallowing razor blades and coughing up pieces of lung. It's not pretty! Can anyone recommend a good Chinese medicine? A strong one! L.T |
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Post by kzel81 on Nov 13, 2006 7:05:06 GMT 7
Hi LT,
Like you, I've had my tonsils removed, but still get really bad throat infections once or twice a year.
I can't help you at the moment with the name of a medicine, but I am going to my doctor this weekend to find out what the Chinese equivalent medication would be to what she normally gives me over here, so I'll let you know once I find something out. Sorry that doesn't help straight away!
I do find that I get slight relief from drinking hot water with lemon and a bit of honey in it.
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Post by Lone Traveller on Nov 13, 2006 9:42:43 GMT 7
Thanks Kzel81,
I'll try that for the time being.
L.T
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Post by kcanuck on Nov 13, 2006 12:40:28 GMT 7
i know it sounds lame but gargling with warm salt water goes a long way towards killing the bacteria festering in your throat. I too was a chronic swollen throat sufferer, long after having my tonsils out. Amoxycilin (sp) was usually prescribed in the west. FOrtunately, I seem to be growing out of the multiple infections...but do use the salt water. WEstern docs prescribe this home remedy all the time. You must do it several times a day.
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Post by Dragonsaver on Nov 13, 2006 12:56:56 GMT 7
I do the salt water gargle as well. Try it for sure!!!
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Post by nolefan on Nov 13, 2006 13:15:13 GMT 7
another endorsement for salt water! I use it to deal with my throat when it becomes hyperactive and i start coughing out pieces of it.
Another remedy that juanbimba and I use is what we call "Gollum Juice". It's basically hot water, some sugar, lemon juice and a bit of ginger. We got the idea when watching the extras on the Lord of The Ring DVD. The actor playing Gollum was loosing his voice due to the strains of making that coughing sound so the staff made this for him to help.
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Post by George61 on Nov 13, 2006 15:51:24 GMT 7
Saltwater gargle is good...Lemon and honey in hot water is also good. Vegemite in hot water is even better because it's salty and you can swallow!!
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Post by Raoul Duke on Nov 13, 2006 18:54:11 GMT 7
Thank you, George, for sharing your massive expertise and experience at swallowing salty stuff.  Salt water gargles are indeed quite good. So is ginger tea...chop up some ginger, boil for a while in a couple cups of water, add a large amount of honey, squeeze in a little lemon juice, serve hot. If you don't have a throat irritation, add a little white pepper or chili to the boil and it's great for colds, too. |
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Post by Lone Traveller on Nov 14, 2006 14:12:44 GMT 7
Thanks to everyone for all the great advise (even the vegemite in water one  ) And heres a little of my own. I think I've found a medicine that actually works for me. The company is Sanchine. The medicine is Shuang Huang Lian Kou Fu Ye (the blue box with thegreen leaf on the front). It's a mouthful I know. I bought if from the chemist here. It's 10 viles of liquid. You drink 1 vile 3 times a day. Just pierce the lid and suck it down. It tastes terrible (something I liken to a mixture of rancid fruit juices and jet fuel), but in just over a day it has broken up my head cold and allowed me to (sorry about this) cough up or blow out a mass of green stuff, which had taken up residence in my head and on my chest.  L.T |
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Post by Lotus Eater on Nov 14, 2006 14:21:32 GMT 7
Sorry about the picking up of spelling - but I thought the context for this was cool. Vials is usually the word used for small bottles of stuff. But it sounded as if it did taste vile.  |
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Post by acjade on Nov 14, 2006 14:54:07 GMT 7
Pear juice or hot pear soup is excellent, Lone Traveller. So is inhaling vinegar in hot water.
You might need a ventalin spray. Costs about 40kwai.
And ... er, LE, the correct spelling for small bottles containing (usually) pharmaceutical, herbal or medical substances is PHIAL.
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Post by George61 on Nov 14, 2006 15:48:47 GMT 7
ACJ, phial is ONE of the ways to spell vial.
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Post by Lone Traveller on Nov 14, 2006 15:56:23 GMT 7
Well there you go. You really do learn something new everyday....  L.T |
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Post by Lone Traveller on Nov 14, 2006 15:59:26 GMT 7
Ooops! Just read that again. Where was my head when I was trying to spell "vial"... What a noob!!!!  |
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Post by Lotus Eater on Nov 14, 2006 16:07:14 GMT 7
I don't normally fuss about spelling on-line - only with my students. (Having on quite a few occasions spelled things incorrectly myself - sometimes due to alcohol, sometimes due to eye-keyboard-finger lack of coordination. But I thought that the vial/vile was great!
From the Oxford.
Depending on the word I will chose either an older original spelling or the modern one. Some of the older spellings I prefer are programme for program, and verandah for veranda. But for this one I followed LT's intentions.
Could be one I will use with my "minimal pairs" class! Thanks!
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Post by George61 on Nov 14, 2006 16:32:43 GMT 7
I was gunna pick on it because of the pun potential, but Lotus got there first!!
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Post by Becster79 on Nov 14, 2006 16:56:28 GMT 7
It's the spelling 'phial' from Shakespeare's day??
*runs*
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Post by acjade on Nov 14, 2006 18:42:42 GMT 7
As long as you don't teach ET to vone home.
Phial as in file not in egad thou vile vermin!
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Post by Lone Traveller on Nov 15, 2006 19:26:47 GMT 7
Glad to help Lotus.... hehe
(even though I had no idea what I was doing!!!) ;D
L.T
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Post by Vegemite on Nov 28, 2006 10:44:55 GMT 7
I just got my medical for my visa renewal and got told that I've currently got pleurisy with conglitunous.  I have no problem with pleurisy, I had lots of chest surgeries when I was a kid so get it fairly regularly...what has got me concerned is the 'conglutinous' - I've searched it on the net and can't discover a meaning. Does anyone out there know what it means? The FAO can't explain it any more than 'conglutinous,' and is shocked that it's not a common English word. |
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Post by cheekygal on Nov 28, 2006 12:32:56 GMT 7
conglutinous or conglitunous? you typed different words there!!!
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Post by Lone Traveller on Nov 28, 2006 16:54:57 GMT 7
This was all I could find: Maybe your blood is just thick and sticky?  |
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Post by Vegemite on Nov 28, 2006 17:05:31 GMT 7
'conglutinatous' - I re-checked the spelling... So, LT, your definition sounds the most logical - sticky lungs, maybe Thanks... |
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Post by Lotus Eater on Nov 28, 2006 17:40:54 GMT 7
Sounds like you could have a fair bit of garbage in your lungs. Massage and medicine??
Or you're stuck to/on Con??
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Post by Vegemite on Nov 29, 2006 18:43:18 GMT 7
Or you're stuck to/on Con?? Con? Big Bird Con? Con with the fly down?  |
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