Common Chinese cures

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I'm looking to find some common Chinese cures for common health problems.

For instance:

Cold - sugar and ginger soup

Throatache - pear boiled with rock sugar

Burn - toothpaste.

Any suggestions as where else to look would be useful too. Thanks.

[liuzhou]

Everything - Drip or Injection

[Yang Rui]

Any problem that occurs in winter: drink more hot water and "wear more clothes"

Heatstroke: drink 酸梅汤 (Suanmeitang) which i think is plum juice or some kind of plum infusion.

For the mysterious condition known as 上火 (shang huo, or "too much heat in the body" i think) which seems to be the cause of most illnesses known to man, you can drink chrysanthemum tea. You can beef up the power of the tea by adding honeysuckle （金银花) and Chinese wolfberry （枸杞）. Apparently.