Personal Experiences
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BL's Experience of Treating Covid at an Early Stage
Recently one of my colleagues had very bad covid which she got from her son who got it from school. Her symptoms were: body aching like hell and temperature fluctuations- one minute in an ice bucket and another in a very hot bath; headaches that would not go away and gastritis that is acid peeling the gastric lining; resting heart rate >90 (normally it’s under 70).
Her symptoms reminded me of my sister, who had the exactly the same symptoms a year ago (2020), at that time, she didn’t test if it was covid or not, but now I understand she had it! I suggested that she use Chinese herbs then, she didn’t. But instead she did Chinese sit mediation and sweat a bit, and she recovered fully the next day.
My colleague had rice porridge on the 4th day, and she felt much better on the 5th day.
My daughter had flu recently, and developed coughing at the end, I then used Chinese herbs to treat her, three different herbs in 3 days, coughing went away on the 5th day, she then fully recovered. The right Chinese herbs could be very effective, but it is very individual treatment, there is no one magic Chinese herb for all. The Chinese herbal book I used is called “Shang Han Lun”. Two main ingredients treating flu in Shang Han Lun are cinnamon stick (good quality) and ginger. Hence, I suggested people use these two in the protocols described below.
Firstly, the most important thing to figure out is the covid symptoms; the treatments would be different if the symptoms were not the same. On this occasion, the typical symptoms are the body aching and the patient does not sweat at all. The principle is getting the body itself to detox, sweat a bit, but not heavily. Hence the patient needs to make sure s/he works the body itself to sweat, light activities like Chinese sit mediation, or eat hot rice porridge, or drink ginger tea. Saunas which make the body warm to sweat does not work, because the body needs to warm up from inside, but not outside.
Secondly, no matter what methods the patient chooses, please make sure not to over-do it. As soon as the body sweats a bit, then stop the treatments - excessive sweating is not good even for healthy people.
Thirdly, covid patients always feel extreme hungry when the aching’s gone, at this point, please don’t overeat, especially meaty food which is difficult to digest - plain rice porridge or other light diets are always the best, and eat as little and often.
Principles
Chinese Sit Mediation
The Chinese sit mediation, also called “da zuo” (打坐), is very similar to the yoga mediation. As the figure below shows, there are 3 positions to take, and people need to practice daily for its benefit. For the covid treatment, the patient needs to do the mediation till the body starts to sweat a bit, but not heavily, could be 20 minutes, could be 50 minutes, depends on personal health condition. I won’t put any instruction here, please do your own research.
Rice Porridge
The Best Rice to Make Congee
I suggest using a more “starchy” rice such as jasmine rice (long-grain) and japonica rice (medium-grain). These two are perfect to make congee as it will give your congee a smooth, starchy and silky texture. Rice such as basmati rice doesn’t “gel” as much when you use it to cook porridge. The rice grain will most likely remain intact. If you still want to use basmati rice, I suggest pulsing it few times in a blender or food processor to break up the grains a bit before cooking. Do not turn it into a powder though
Rice porridge is like the oat porridge, it is made of rice and water and personally I like use sushi rice or jasmine rice. For covid, to help the body to sweat, I would put good quality cinnamon powder (1tp) and ginger powder (1tp) in the porridge.
I found this recipe on https://whattocooktoday.com/how-to-make-rice-porridge.html , and copied below.
HOW TO MAKE BASIC ASIAN RICE PORRIDGE (CONGEE)
BASIC CHINESE CONGEE (JOOK)
Making congee or known as jook in Cantonese, is pretty common in our household. I often make it for breakfast. I decided to write this post because I used to not sure how much water I needed to add in to get the result I wanted. The consistency of the porridge can vary depending on the amount of water or stock you add in. I personally like a medium thick to medium thin porridge. Some people like a thin porridge. So, I thought I might share this basic part of making Asian rice porridge using white rice.
How Much Water or Stock to Cook Congee
Everybody has a different preference when it comes to the consistency of porridge. I myself prefer a rice: liquid ratio between 1:9 to 1:10. Remember that the longer the congee sits, the thicker it becomes as it continues to absorb water.
This porridge is made with 1:7 ratio
This porridge is made with 1:8 ratio
This porridge is made with 1:9 ratio
This porridge is made with 1:10 ratio
The 1:10 ratio may seems a bit thin at first, but after 10 minutes, the consistency has thickened even more (photo below), which is the consistency I like.
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