Given that there is currently no cure for CoVid-19 the main course of action should one become infected is to alleviate the symptoms and help the body fight back. I am not a doctor so all of this should be considered hypothetical and not any sort of suggestion or advice. That being said, it is my firm belief that we should be doing everything we can to strengthen our immune systems as much as possible. In my search for ways of achieving this (on Pubmed) I came across the following article and subsequently stumbled down the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) rabbit hole.
Hui Luo
There is a great deal of research on TCM and some of the results seem worthy of investigation. So I put together a "shopping list" for doing a little research of my own:
- Milkvetch roots (Huang Qi)
- Liquorice (Gan Cao)
- Saposhnikovia roots (Fang Feng)
- Atractylodes rhizomes (Bai Shu)
- Forsythia fruits (Lian Qiao)
- Honeysuckle flowers (Jin Yin Hua)
Now where in the world does one go to obtain these funny sounding herbs? Turns out that there is a wholesale distributor a couple blocks away from where I currently live. Note: I live in Elmhurst, Queens, which is the second largest 'Chinatown' in Queens as per Wikipedia. I decided that I had to walk over and check it out.
I was greeted by an abundance of novel smells and foreign-to-me fragrances immediately upon walking inside. I was able to find all of the items on my list with the help of persistence and someone in my family who is familiar with their offerings.
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