{"id":1257,"date":"2013-12-14T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/345am.com\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2013-12-14T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T19:23:37","slug":"chinese-herbal-symptom-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/345am.com\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"Sore throat or cough? Try this Chinese herbal remedy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tis the season for colds, sore throats and coughs. Once you&#8217;ve given up on chewing airborne tablets as candy and eating extra gummy bear vitamins for adults (yes, that&#8217;s a thing) there is a great alternative for helping to bring some relief to your throat as your body sorts out the foreign invaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boat Sterculia Seeds, aka Malva Nuts, aka Pang Da Hai<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also attached a handwritten description\/label of the seeds since most people who sell them (in Chinatown) will only know them by that name.<\/p>\n<p>They look like dried nuts\/seeds, and they run about fifty cents a pop. Brewing a cup of tea with them is one of the best options for symptom relief that I&#8217;ve found for a soar throat or helping to stifle a persistent cough.<\/p>\n<p>There are some pictures of them them below in seed format, and then in their weird, expanded jelly fish\/coral like, appearance in hot water. I doubt people would try, but don&#8217;t eat them: just drink the tea.<\/p>\n<p>Give them a go if you find yourself stuck with a cold and let me know your results!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tis the season for colds, sore throats and coughs. Once you&#8217;ve given up on chewing airborne tablets as candy and eating extra gummy bear vitamins for adults (yes, that&#8217;s a thing) there is a great alternative for helping to bring some relief to your throat as your body sorts out the foreign invaders. Boat Sterculia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/345am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/345am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/345am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/345am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/345am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/345am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/345am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/345am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/345am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}