1.A Gruel for prevention of the Attack of the common cold
Take 250 grams of polished round-grained rice, wash it clean and put it in a pan which contains 2,000 grams of clean water. Heat the pan until the water in it begins to boil. Then lower by a big margin the temperature of heating until the water boils with almost imperceptible rippling. When the rice has been cooked to a state more than half good enough for eating, put into the pan 100 grams of scallion stalks which have been washed clean and cut into minute bits. Put additionally into the pan 25 grams of ginger particles. Cook the gruel further until it is completely suitable for consumption, and then add 100 grams of brown sugar to it. This tasty dish, or medical preparation, is effective for fending off the common cold.

2.Roasted Tangerine for curing the common cold
Take a whole tangerine. Hold it by means of a pair of tongs over fire at a distance of one to two inches. Turn it around frequently when you are thus roasting it. Get ready to eat it when it is emanating vapor and aroma. In order to use it as a medicine, you need to peel it, add to it two spoonfuls of vinegar and pour on it an adequate amount of boiling water. The whole lot constitutes the first dose of the medicine. The second dose is to be prepared and administered in the same way a few hours later. This preparation is highly efficacious, especially for a person who has just caught cold.

Prescriptions for treating cough

(1)For unproductive dry cough
Put about two beer bottles of water in a pan, make the water boil, add to it two spoonfuls of edible oil, preferably peanut oil, and two or three spoonfuls of white sugar. Beat thoroughly a hen"s egg, mix it with the water, and heat the mixture until it boils. Drink a glass of this mixture reheated to a proper temperature in the morning and evening for three days on end. The dry cough will surely be cured.

(2)A delicacy which serves as a chronic cough treatment
Pork stewed with chestnuts is a delicious dish, but it is also an effective cure for chronic cough. Take 200 grams of clean pork and 200 grams of peeled chestnuts. Wash the meat with water, cut it into cubes, and cook it in a casserole with the chestnuts to make a soup. Add to it some salt and gourmet powder to improve its taste. This prescription, though unacademic, is very helpful to children and feeble old people who suffer from chronic cough and bronchitis.

(3)Rock candy and Banana for curing cough
Take 5 grams of rock candy and 3 or 4 bananas, and put them in a bowl. Steam them in a covered pan for 15 minutes with gentle fire. The bananas so processed have high efficacy for curing cough.

                                (4) Cooked radishes for curing cough
Take a bunch of white radishes and cut a small portion of them into slices to be cooked each evening in pure water. When the radish is well-cooked, remove by means of a spoon or any other instrument the solid slices and particles. Leave the liquid in a bowl or large glass to cool for a while and drink it just before going to bed. Otherwise, you may take a large white radish (about 200 grams in weight), cut it into small pieces and cook it in pure water for 20 minutes with 20-30 grams of rock candy. Eat the hot radish together with the water, and your coughing is sure to stop within a quarter of an hour.

(5)Raw hen"s eggs for getting rid of coughing
Take two uncooked hen"s eggs, two spoonfuls of honey, and one spoonful of refined sugar. Mix thoroughly the beaten eggs, the honey and the sugar. Dissolve this mixture by pouring boiling water on it. Eat the soup so concocted on an empty stomach in the morning and in the evening. You will get rid of the obnoxious coughing in three days. This work may be done in another way. Get a fresh egg. Break the shell and put the yolk and the white in a small bowl. There is no need to beat the egg. Just add some sugar and a spoonful of vegetable oil. Place the bowl in a pan which contains enough water. Turn on the fire to steam the egg a few minutes,. Eat the egg so prepared when it is still very hot before going to bed. This refreshment, or dose, may be taken three or four times.

(6)Ginger and honey for curing persistent coughing
Take 250 grams or thereabout of ginger and knock it into fragments. Wrap up the fragments in a piece of gauze to filter out the juice under pressure. Mix the juice with honey at the ratio of 1:1 by weight and heat the mixture to its boiling point. Then keep the product in a covered bowl to be administered each time by one spoonful in the morning and in the evening respectively. The result is considered generally to be marvelous.

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