Any experience with xiao yan pian medication?

[billiardsmike]

Cold season is here and I was already home before noticing that one of the medicines the clerk had gotten me to buy was zhong yao. My dictionary shows xiao yan pian as an anti-inflammatory. Any reason why I would take this for a cold?

[piripiri]

anti-inflammation = antibiotics in a way, may not kill the germs, but should shooth your pain

[quanxie]

Hard to explain why but, here goes, you should not take xiaoyao pian during the peroid a common cold... In Chinese medicine terms, which do not include words like, "inflamation" or "common cold". It is usually diagnosised as an "external attack" of a cold or hot nature. You should use a formula that help your exterior defense system rid the hot/cold evil from your body... Xiaoyao is a formula that help the middle part of your body and if you take it during an attack of your exterior it could help the hot/cold evil get into the interior of your body..

[heifeng]

medicines the clerk had gotten me to buy

Ask yourself, why might they want you to buy this-because it can cure you or they get a little perk for recommending this medicine this week....ask your friends for a good medicine and then just buy that one...