With a long history of medicine in China, it is not surprising that natural medicines for allergies were discovered by an ancient healer. One of the things discovered by the Chinese is the miracles of ephedra. Today, ephedra is still the basis for the treatment of TCM, allergies and asthma. Physicians from the East often combine ephedra with licorice and ginseng to treat natural allergies and remedies.
Doctors and scientists in Western cultures are beginning to study such combined means. New studies show that they can be a useful alternative to conventional medicines and cause fewer side effects.
For example, researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia studied 58 patients with allergic rhinitis. Fifty percent of patients received the TCM formula, and the remaining fifty percent received a placebo. At the end of the study, the researchers concluded that the TCM formula, known as BIMIN, is effective in treating rhinitis. This study concludes that TCM is the first drug that has proven effective for this condition in rigorous scientific research.
In addition to allergic rhinitis, TCM agents have shown the prospect of treating asthma. Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine at New York University in New York and the School of Hygiene and Public Health at John Hopkins University in Baltimore studied the effects of two TCM formulas — Dean-Chuan-Tan (DCT) and Jia Wei San-Qi Tan (modified three seeds). dessert or MTSD) - in mice with asthma. They found that these two drugs significantly reduce the production of IgE antibodies and alleviate asthma in mice.
