It's Good To Be Healthy Again

Date:  Mar 31, 2015

Oh boy, it is good to be healthy again.

My Coughing

Last month, I have been non-stop coughing.  

The flames is sometimes yellow, sometimes white, sometimes green.

It feels like infections.

It feels like hundred days coughing. 

It feels like sore throats.

Nothing Works!

The coughing is so terrible that at night I would wake up at least 3-5 times.  

Could not sleep as I cough violently.

The next day my throat will be dried and itchy.

So, the doctor gave me antibiotics.  And it does not work.  In fact, I feel weaker.

Then, I take the cough syrups.  It does not work.

Then, I try the acupuncture for the first time of my life.

And take the Chinese medicine.  Some cough syrups.

Then, I felt so heaty in my body, and my eyes becomes very red.  And it feels like they want to pop out like that. 

I went the next day and the sensei recommend another acupuncture treatment.  And he advise me that instead of drinking 30ml of the cough medicine, drink 15ml instead.

Well, the next day, after acupuncture I feel great.  But my eyes still full of blood vessels.  It is totally red.

So, I decided to throw away the cough medicine.  I think it makes me too heaty.

What Works?

I tried drinking manuka honey.  It does not solve my sore throat.

I tried drinking Liang-Teh, and it does not help.

I tried 京都念慈安枇杷膏 and it does not work too.

I tried Panadol Cold tablet, and it does not work.

I don’t think I have flu, but I feel like a lot of flames.  

My flames is white at night, but in the morning, it turn yellow but not green.

Then, I figured out what went wrong.

My cough was a Cold Cough, but my sore throat is heaty.  So, if I take too heaty medicine and it will worsen my throat, and when throat gets itchy, I cough too.

Then, my friend Benney suggest me to buy medicine from Eu-Yan-Seng.  He said it works for him.

And I must say, that is the medicine I shall take in future to cure my cough.  It works!

Eu-Yan-Seng

When I walked into the Chinese medicine shop.  The sales man speak to me.

What is my symptoms?

“Is the flame white, yellow or green?"

I told him at night, I would cough very violently, and my flames is mostly white color.

I also told him, but when I wake up in the morning, the flames becomes concentrated and turn a little bit yellowish.

I told him I could not sleep because of this cough.

I usually wakes up 3-5 times from 12 mid night to 6am.

And that is when he recommend me these off the shelves medicine.

1.  The Hot Cough remedy.  Take one in the morning for two days.

2.  At night, take the Cold Cough remedy.  Before sleep. For two days.

3.  On the third day, the cough should have become better.  Then, take a mild hot cough in the morning and a mild cold cough in the night.

And he says that should do it.

Take a look at the packaging.  This is the Hot cough package.

Seems to have some super Chinese ingredients in there.  No chemical.

Now.  Here is what happen.

a.  The first night, after I took the cold cough remedy.  I feel much better.  I don’t cough much.  My flames magically gone.

b.  The next day, I still got some yellowish flames.  And the hot cough remedy immediately cure it.  And my throats are much smoothen.

c.  By the time I took the two days hot and cold cough remedy, I feel I already 85% recover.

d.  I can sleep thru the night on the 2nd day.  First night, I still awake I think 2 times.  Instead of 3-5 times.

e.  And the third day, I was off to Melaka to take part in a two days golf events.

So, as soon as I come back from Melaka, I went to buy a few more bottles.  Just to make sure I can be 99% recovered.

So, this is what I take from right to left for 5-6 days.  And I feel so good after I had these medicines.

The Hot and Cold Cough does not come cheap at all.  I was a bit surprise to see the price tag.  It is around $25 per bottle.  The Mild one is between $5-$8 I think.

I am so glad that I took the Eu-Yan-Seng special cough medicine and it cure me in time for the two days golf event and the following Carrier World trip in Bangkok.  Otherwise, I won’t be fit to play golf for the trips.

Also, one important thing.

You have to watch what you eat.  戒口.

a.  No cold drinks.

b.  No Tea.  Coffee OK.  But hot ones.

c.  No chilli or spicy food or curry.

d.  No fried stuffs.

As long as you can follow these, and take the medicine, you can recover very fast.

 

 

 

Health Info - Mouth Ulcer Remedy

Date:  Aug 4, 2014

Read this from the web… Not sure it is true or not, next time I will try it.  HaHa

Apparently the remedy says if you have ulcer, just eat the kiwi fruits.  Eat 5 of them, and the next day, your ulcer will be relieved.

http://tw.gigacircle.com/504149-1

口腔潰爛一次治愈的神奇食療方法！ 必看！看了請分享！不要自私！謝謝！

Here is the abstract...

口瘡這東西，長上了，再輕也不會一兩天好。

就算到藥店買那種藥粉或者噴劑，至少也得弄個兩三天吧。

而且那些藥弄到潰瘍上會很疼很疼。

大概五六年前吧，在電視上看到一個神奇的食療方法。

當時媽媽正在長口瘡，並且不算輕，所以很認真的看了節目。

前面賣了好久的關子，最後揭密，原來是獼猴桃啊！

長口瘡的時候，要一次性的吃5個以上的獼猴桃，

是的，只有獼猴桃！果然是水果之王啊~

要熟的正好的那種，熟大點也沒事。

一般吃完第二天口腔潰瘍就好了，

就算是比較嚴重的，第二天也至少大大減輕。

只要再吃一次5個以上的獼猴桃，就可以完全好。

媽媽看了後馬上去買了一袋子獼猴桃，

沒想到吃一次就好了，第二天就沒事了。

真是神奇的讓我們驚呼！

在這些年中，我們全家已經多次驗證過這個方法的神奇。

而且都是吃一次痊愈！只有一次，媽媽吃了2次獼猴桃才好。

今天想起來發這個，其實是我前幾天舌頭上長了瘡。

我媽立刻去買了一些獼猴桃，我打成果泥喝掉了。

第二天就好了，不過是快到晚上才完全不疼的。

本來想吃第二次，結果不用了，嘿嘿。

突然想起，拍照發個博吧。

雖然口腔潰瘍不是常常遇到的，但這麽好的方法還是要分享的。

便宜，健康，奇效！

【獼猴桃果泥】

材料：

獼猴桃5個。

做法：

1、獼猴桃洗凈，對半切，用勺子挖出果肉，放入料理機。

2、啟動料理機，把果肉打成果泥，如果酸就加一些糖、蜂蜜之類的調和下。

首先說下哈，直接吃或打成泥是一樣的效果。

只是現在這個季節的獼猴桃口感比較酸，直接吃我是吃不下啊。

所以打成泥，加了點無糖的果糖喝下去了。

如果正好是獼猴桃成熟的季節，直接吃就好了。

不過當然了，打成泥肯定比直接吃吸收的更好。

就算是反季節的獼猴桃也有效哦！

被口腔潰瘍困擾的朋友不妨試試

My Trek Bike That Has Run 5000KM

Date:  July 30, 2014

This is my bike.

I am not a serious bike fan that ride bike at night with friends.  Those people own a road bike can cycle 40-80km per day.

I am a casual bike rider.

I ride bike for exercise.

I didn’t want to run, because I already can feel my left knee cap is not feeling click if I run too much.  

Riding bike is just like swimming, it has low impact to your knees.

So, if I am in Singapore, and I can wake up early, and I don’t need to send my kids to school, usually, I will bike.

This is where I bike.

From my Park West condo, I ride along the landed property Faber Walk area to reach the Ulu Pandan canal there.  Then, I cycle to Commonwealth Ave along M1 building.  Then, ride back to Clementi Road.  And then, go back to the Commonwealth Ave.  Then, across AYE to the other side of the AYE towards Pandan Loop area.  And then ride back to Commonwealth Ave.  And then, Ride to Clementi Ave.   And then, ride back to Park West.  

Like that, back and forth 2 times, it will clocked at least 20KM with at least 1 hour non-stop work out.

By the way, I am using Runkeeper to keep track of all my exercises, such as cycling, walking, running, swimming.

It is a great tools.  It keep a tap of how much exercise you have done.

Each exercise, it tells you how long, what its he average speed, how far, and how much calories.

After each exercise, it will auto post a message to my social circle.

Sometimes, if for a few days I didn’t bike, some of my friends will say “Hey, how come I didn’t see you cycling in the morning?"

Then, you defence a bit and next day, you go to cycle again.

It actually tells you how well you are doing in each KM.  So that you can analyse at which point you actually feels tired.  Otherwise you will be consistent most of the time.

It even tells you that when you are cycling over a hill with elevation, your speed drops because of that.

Of course, virtually, you are doing exercise with your friends.  You can compare yourself with your friends, are you working out? 

But, the best statistics of all is this.

From Sep 2010 when I started using Runkeeper, that is about when I own this bicycle.

I have done 420 activities.

I have cycle about 5583KM so far.

So how far is 5583KM?

That’s far.

I am proud of myself.

For utilising the bicycle and clock it so long distance.  Yeah!

I think those 3 bikes below, don’t even clock a combine 500KM.  Wahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa

And don’t forget, after every exercise, you must eat well.

When you do exercise, your body will burn the fat and that is the time bad radicals will come out releasing from your body.

So, you will need a strong defence systems to counter off these bad radicals.  Otherwise, you will easily get sick.

Before the ride, I take one breakfast.

After the ride, I take my second breakfast.

Gadget: Noodle Making Machine

Date:  March 17, 2104

* Special note:  (Mar 20) **********

I have done a search on JD.Com (used to be 360buy.com)

http://search.jd.com/Search?keyword=面条机&enc=utf-8

RMB 699 seems to be the official price.

I have also done a search on sunning.com, the listed only RMB 689 which is closed to the price I bought.

http://search.suning.com/面条机/cityId=9017

* Special note:  (Mar 19) **********

A search on Taobao and sorted by REPUTATION.  

http://s.taobao.com/search?spm=a230r.1.8.4.5Q7rNu&promote=0&sort=credit-desc&tab=all&q=%BE%C5%D1%F4%C3%E6%CC%F5%BB%FA&rsclick=1#J_relative

If you search by sold volume.  There is this RMB499 version.  Which I think it may be a “refurbish” model.  So, you may not want to get that (my recommendation).  But if you feel comfortable and wanted to save $50, I guess you can get that.  Because so many people has bought it.

* Special Note:  (Mar 18) **********

Since this is a big item, 团购 will be meaning less as the shipping charges is proportionate to the weight of the total weight.

Group purchasing is good when you want to buy small things and you tumpang on other people purchases.

If you are interested to buy one, you can send your request to my Taobao Agent, Amy Li.

Her email is cinagoods@hotmail.com

You can cut and paste the web site to choose which one to buy.

I buy from this store.  It is a Joyoung (Jiu Yang) specialised store.  And it is on TMall.

It is RMB 699.  I felt safer.  I used it once, no problem.  

http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a220m.1000858.1000725.3.5EzJZg&id=17879001235&areaId=&user_id=454397463&is_b=1&cat_id=2&q=%BE%C5%D1%F4%C3%E6%CC%F5%BB%FAjys-n6&rn=e9df30acd095f9831769a8d94ebe9d33

Of course, if you already have an existing account with Taobao, you can buy directly too.  

******** End or Note: ******

Today, we have a new gadget.  I bought this from Taobao.  And it arrives today.

The machine is quite big.  It looks like this.

It says 15 minutes you can 1) make the noodle, and 2) cook the noodle.  The noodle making process is only takes 6-7 minutes.

Let’s make noodle now.

We need either Plain Flour or All purpose Flour.  Next time, I will use Organic Flour. :)

Let’s make our first bowl of noodle.  Measuring.

We need exactly 200g of plain flour.

YES Jay!  Flour + Water = Noodle.

Next, we need water.

Exactly 70ml of water.

Pour the flour into the noodle maker.  And press Auto.

And noodle machine start mixing the flour.

Next which is very important.  Pour in the 70ml of water VERY SLOWLY.

Yes, have to do it very slowly so that the noodle will not stick to each other.

The mixer turn INWARDS initially.  Suddenly, it beeps.  And the mixer change direction.

So, when the mixer turn OUTWARDS, it pushes the flour into the hole.

It is amazing.

Quickly prepare a plate and put some flour on it to receive the noodles.

Her comes the noodles.

Wow!  It is indeed amazing.   This is so cool.  Making own noodles is awesome!  hahaha

From time to time, sprinkle some flour onto the noodle.  

It’s warm.

Here comes the first coil of noodle.

So, for 200g of flour, it makes about 2 plates of noodles.

Of course, my pot is cook with hot water, and straight away, we put the noodle into the hot water with olive oil and salt.

3-4 minutes later, restrain it with cold water.  (Wash away the excess flour)

1.  normal oil a bit.

2.  sesame oil a bit.

3.  soya sauce a bit.

4.  abalone sauce a bit.

5.  green onions a bit.  (cut some) 

6.  white pepper a bit.

7.  salt a bit.

Pour in the noodles, and mix it well.

This is the noodle I cooked using the fresh home made noodles.

As always, my biggest fan says “Very delicious!”.

So, from now on, we going to make our own noodles and we no longer want to buy instant noodles or those form the organic stores.  :)

Take a look at the youtube advertisement.  It is amazing.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/yQasZxNK-ts

I bought this from Taobao.  I bought the N6 (latest) model.

http://search.taobao.com/search?q=%C3%E6%CC%F5%BB%FA+%BE%C5%D1%F4

The cheapest is RMB449.  (About SGD$90).  It weight about 5-6KG.  

But I am very scare of this sort of cheap price place.  So, I bought it from a much expensive store, 

which I know it is a good reputation store for Jiu Yang products in TMall.  It cost RMB 699.  But it is up to you to choose which one to buy.

Tip:  Buy the one a lot of people bought.

This is the operation manual.

It is so easy to use.  They don’t even have a lot to say in the making noodle section.

You can make for 3-4 people which is the maximum.

Got quality check too.

Their manual is so simple, because it is easy to make the noodle.

So, they mind as well give a booklet to teach people how to COOK noodles.  hahahaha

The noodle machine can make 6 types of different noodles.  

Very cool!

Oh ya.  You can make spinach noodle, or carrot noodles and so on too.

Amazing machine.  I like!

Health: Swing Hand Exercise (Qi-Gong)

Date:  Feb 13, 2014

Why is this useful to me?

1)  When my wife went to business trip, I almost have no chance of doing long exercise.

2)  When there is haze, it is not pleasant to do outdoor jogging or cycling.

3)  After you eaten your lunch or dinner, you can do this exercise which will not affect your digestion.  i.e. cannot jump after meal.

4)  I need to build muscles to burn my fat.  I am overweight.  Muscle is the best weapon to burn the excess fat.

How to do it?

1)  Every day, at least 1000 times.  I guess.  About 20-25min,

2)  Every 5 swing, bend your knee a bit.

3)  Both hand swing to the front and naturally swing to the back.

4)  You can do this any time, any where.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/RHTUoQep-vw

I did it once just now.  Seems ok.  Because sweat a little.  Let’s do it regularly and see what impact to health.

To be more healthy, remember, organic food intake, less acidic food.

Good Luck!

Health: Home Remedy for Cough & Fever

Date:  Nov 3, 2013

Yesterday, my young son Kay Kay suddenly have fever and was coughing a lot.

He, different from his brother Jay, doesn’t like to eat a lot.  He does not eat veggies too.  So, his immune systems is much weaker than his brother.

Jay Jay has been taking anti-oxydant supplements for almost a year and he has not had any fever or cough or cold/flu, just like me.  We have been very healthy for one whole year.  But Kay Kay is a problem.

Today, we are going to talk about Nuskin’s Galvanic Body SPA.  

What is it for?  It is actually for slimming purpose.  :)  It help to make your skin to absorb those fat burning gel/cream.  It is very useful for women who wanted to get rid of the stretch mark.  But this is not today’s topic.  

Today’s topic is how to use this as a Chinese Sensei tool.   Yup!  中医经络养生.  This is the book published by one of the Hong Kong’s Nuskin folks.  And I found it so interesting.  That is why I decided to use it.  And it actually works.

What do you mean by that?  What is Galvanic Current?

Galvanic current is used by beautician so that it can expel toxin and dirts from your skins.  There is a special gel that you use so to apply on it, and then, you simply use the Galvanic body SPA to roll over the skins.  That gel will go under the skin and then, magically, covered the dirts and then, bring the dirts and toxin out from your body.  I also don’t know how it works.  But it does work as described in the following photos.

Some how, this Galvanic Current at the same time will make the circulations of blood flow more effective too.

And in Chinese Medical terms, all the veins in our body has represent special blood flow systems, and if you can find a method to make the blood flow smooth, then, you become more healthy.  Traditionally, Chinese Sensei uses acupuncture, as well as the Ba Guan (i.e. Fire Cupping).

After the fire cupping, usually, you will have blue black marks.  And that is the mark that represents how heaty your body are.  The darker the color your body has more heat.  (photo from google).

What if I say… you now no need to go see Chinese Sensei and you can do your own Ba Guan (Fire Cupping) at home without using the fire cup?  Huh?

Yes, using the Galvanic Body SPA, we can achieve almost the same thing.

Here are some of the common veins that you need to know.

1.  Inner Hand, blood flow go downwards.

2.  Outer Hand, the blood flow of the veins goes upward.

3.  The inner leg, the blood flow in the veins goes upwards direction.  (this is opposite of the inner hand flow direction)

4.  The outer leg, the blood flow goes downwards.

5.  For both side of the spinal cords, the blood flow downwards.  

6.  But the Center Spinal cords itself (between the two veins besides which goes downward) is going upward.

6.  (no pictures) As for the back neck portion.  The veins will go downwards for each side (left and right towards the back).

Basically, what you need to do is to apply the Galvanic Gel, and then, use the Galvanic Body SPA to “brush” or “sweep” thru the veins/direction.  It is either the neck, the inner or outer arms and legs or the back (spinal cord or the two sides).

Then, there is this I-Ching thingy that you will try to follow.  

Yes, the number 6 is Yin 阴 (cold), and the number 9 is yang 阳 (heat).  So, when you do the “sweeping” using the Galvanic body SPA, you should do a multiple of 9 times, i.e. 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72 or 81, etc.  I usually will do a 9 x 9 = 81 times.  Means you do up-down 81 times or you do down-up 81 times depending on which veins you are targeting.

After Golf

So, every time after my golf, my finger, my arms and hand will feel very tense and tired.  My neck will be tight too.  So, I usually will use this to brush it.  This is the outer hand veins.  So, it is from the index finger down-up to my shoulder.  (you can clearly see the vein route visually).  And after doing a few times, you can see the “red spots” started to come out.  And that is precisely the place where I feel sour and pain after my golf game.  

After golf, the muscles here is pain.  But after you sweep thru using the Galvanic body SPA, you can see the redness of the skins.  That is the same effect like the Ba Guan (Fire Cupping), except that the color is not so red and blue black.  After the treatment, my arms feel very relaxing.

Now, you might have noticed the “gel” has turned into white bubbly thingy after you sweep thru the veins.  That means your body is very heaty and all the toxin has been expelled out.  These white stuff are bad stuff.  So, normally, you will need to wipe that off immediately.  The more toxic your body, the more heaty it is, the more white stuff going to come out.  Which is good.

Now, you switch to do the inner hand veins.  So, it is up-to-down direction.  From the front shoulder down to the thumb.

After you have done it.  You can see that your veins are a bit bigger.  That is because blood flow thru these veins very smoothly.  Your blood streams is circulated.

(Warning:  I think, if you have any heart conditions, please do not do this, as it may worsen your conditions.  You have been warned!)

Fever, Cough, Cold & Flu

Magically, this is used to treat the above mentioned symptoms. 

Fever.

Flu and coughing.

This is Kay Kay.  Who has a mild fever, with coughing symptoms.  So, for both sides of the spinal cord, you do a neck to waist up-down direction.  Do for 81 sweeps for each side.  Then, you do a down-up sweep from the waist to next on the spinal cord routes.

As you can see, he is quite heaty.  And all the red spots starts to come up.

He has just completed his right blood veins beside the centre cord.  Notice that the centre spinal cords there does not have “red spots”.

Then, when you do the centre spinal cords, it is from down to up.  And you can see the red spots all come up.  Just take note, when you sweep, you do not apply any force, just lightly sweep the Galvanic Body SPA head over the skin.  Your aim is to touch the skins lightly only, but not pressing hard on the skin and sweep.

So, after doing this, Kay Kay felt quite sleepy.  And his head is not so warm, as the blood circulation has bring down his temperature.  And the cough is much lesser.

Here is a quick video showing how it was done.  :)  Thanks Kay Kay for being the model.  hahahaha.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/KmAR6wpvstI

OK.  Now, let’s try it on a healthy person.  (don’t worry, it does not promote extra blood flow on the healthy person, whahahaha).  Jay Jay, come!

A healthy person does not have a lot of red spot.  He also does not have any pain at his back or what so ever, no fever, no coughing, so no “red spot”.

Look closer, the gel also not turning white and milky.  So, Jay Jay basically has no heaty stuff inside his body.   So, he is very healthy and not much problem in his muscles and veins.  Very good.  :)

Nuskin is a MLM company.  I used to have a very negative views and opinions about MLM.  However, after I have used a few of their products and prove that it works, I start to change my mind.  MLM not necessary produce con products.  So, this is another product that I used and I felt that it is useful.  And they are a listed company on NYSE.  And look at their stock performance, it is keep going up for the last 12 months.  I believe they have some technology and these technology have help them to sell their product - the direct way.  It is a very interesting product lines that have change my life style and it makes me very health aware.  Cool product!