Dimmak Herbs

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Airborne is a very popular product today and many people use it to boost their immunity, prevent the onset of colds, and eliminate cold symptoms as they appear. Dimmak Herbs offers 2 products that are geared for the two different things Airborne claims to do.

First let me explain why we have a cold killer Quick Kill Cold and why we have an immunity booster IMMUNITY. Chinese Medicine didn’t understand viruses and bacteria thousands of years ago. The theory goes that you don’t “catch a cold”, but you are subject to pathogens all the time, it’s a matter of your body having enough resistance or not. This resistance that we call immunity was called “Wei Qi”. Now there are 3 main categories of herbs for dealing with Colds, Flu or External Pathogens. The first category would be herbs that release the exterior (push out what is trying to come in), herbs that clear toxicity (these are all basically anti-bacterial with some also being antiviral), and lastly herbs that boost your Wei Qi (what would be termed as immunity boosting herbal supplements).

Airborne has the following list of herbs:

Loniceria / Jin Yin Hua / Honeysuckle
Forsythia / Lian Qiao
Jin Yin Hua and Forsythia are usually used together and have a common name 'Yin Qiao' when used together. They are toxicity clearing herbs and work strongly at clearing evils.

Schizonepeta / Jing Jie
Release the exterior with a broad action.

Ginger / Gan Jiang
Well there is a problem here. Raw ginger has a great property to help at the beginning of cold signs, but dried ginger is very very warming and has a primary action of warming the body to dispel cold. This may be a rookie error from a teacher trying to be an herbalist? This is also adding a very warming herb to list of cool herbs that trying to clear heat and relieve toxicity.

Chinese Vitex / Man Jing Zi (I think this is the herb they mean)
This herb is commonly used for PMS and gynecological symptoms in the west, but it is cool and releases the exterior.

Isatis / Ban Lan Gen
Great herb here. Ban Lan Gen is a proven anti-viral and anti-bacterial herb.

Echinacea
Echinacea relieves toxicity and is similar to Jin Yin Hua. Echinacea is good as an anti bacterial. Echinacea is good for colds at an acute stage, it can get your body to dump white cells out but does not work as a long term immunity builder.More information on Echinacea can be found here: Echinacea http://www.dimmakherbs.com/Chinese-Herbal-Remedies/echinacea-letting-you-down.html Another problem with this herb is there are 3 different varieties. It seems to me from research that Airborne uses the cheaper less effective form of Echinacea and not the expensive Purpurea version.

Vitamin C
Vitamin C has countless claims to work on increasing and maintaining your immunity. However .06 grams of Vitamin C is 100% daily serving. Airborne has 1 gram of Vitamin C per capsule and recommend you take 3 daily. While I agree that the government usually grossly underrates some of our Vitamins, I think 2000% of what is recommended 3 times a day is a bit steep. This is also a problem because while Airborne claims 3000mg of Vitamin C is okay for you to take daily, there is scientific proof that that much Vitamin C is very bad for you. Kidney stones, diarrhea, and leaching of important metals affecting your metabolic condition are just some of the problems with Vitamin C overdoses. Another problem is all of your food you are eating also contains Vitamin C which makes for even higher intake of Vitamin C.

Here is the listing of Dimmak Herbs’ Quick Kill- Cold
Jin Yin Hua (Loniceria) / Lian Qiao (Forsythia)
Again this is a thousand year old Chinese Medicine combination for external pathogens trying to enter. This is a pretty standard combination of 2 herbs and works really well.

Elder Flowers
We really like the cleansing power of Elder Flowers and use them in several herbal remedies here. Elder Flowers fall into the clear toxicity category and Elder is a great anti-bacterial and anti-viral cleanser.

Huang Qi / Astragalus
Huang Qi is a very revered herb all over the world for its immunity boosting abilities. The Chinese make soups all winter long with a  big dose of Huang Qi in it, and Westerners everywhere take Astragalus all winter long in teas and tincture form to avoid colds. Huang Qi boost the Wei Qi and builds up what needs to be strengthened. This herb has an important function of tonifying your body while its down (fighting a cold) while actually helping to get rid of the cold or flu.

Chai Hu / Bupleurum
Chai Hu releases the exterior by function and category. This herb sets our formula apart and works when others may not. Chai Hu not only pushes out what is trying to enter, BUT also pushes out what has already entered. Chai Hu also helps your bodies liver and blood Qi move freely throughout the body (this is usually where the aches and pain come from with the cold). We can go on and on about Chai Hu, but we are looking to keep this to a comparison, not an article on this herb.

Bo He / Chinese Mint
Mint is cool and releases the exterior. Mint is commonly used at the onset of colds and helps with headaches too.

Ban Lan Gen / Isatis
Ban Lan Gen is an excellent and under used herb. Ban Lan Gen actually has a huge amount of research to get rid of colds and flu and has more research on it that Echinacea. Ban Lan Gen is used as a shot in concentrated form as a flu shot. Yes that’s right, it even prevents colds and flu.

Huang Qin / Scute
Clears heat in the upper body. Helps with scratchy throat and lung problems like cough, phlegm, and swellings dealt with in the onset of colds and flu

Gan Cao / Licorice
Licorice helps to ease this formula into your system and avoid reactions to strong herbs in your body. Licorice is also great for the lung and throat for cough and sore throat.

Vitamin C
Again, Vitamin C has possible great effects on helping the body through colds and flu and such. However, In our formula a normal dose will be only 200% daily dosage and full dose would be 400% of Vitamin C. So even with orange juice or other foods you wont take in more than a safe 1000% of Vitamin C intake daily!

Our Quick Kill Cold is very geared toward expelling these pathogens quickly. It is simple capsules with raw and concentrated herbs and taken with whatever liquid you like. Our capsules doe not need to be dissolved in water and therefore contains no unnatural fillers or anything. Our formula was created by Herbalists, not Teachers. Our formula also utilizes our herbal knowledge and teachings of Chinese Herbalism allows us to follow proven methods and combinations. Herbal Remedies get bad reputations because the FDA does not regulate them and therefore absolute scientific proof is not available for all of our formulas. However, our combinations actually do have thousands of years of clinical and effective usage above our satisfaction of our products. I would also like to note if you would like to also supplement with Echinacea we have a our Echinacea Blend that contains 2 other herbs that actually INCREASE the effectiveness of Echinacea. Lastly, like all of our formulas, we don't have any fillers or perservatives or Sucralose in our products.

A quick note about our herbal formula IMMUNITY. If you are looking for something to actually enhance your immune system, you need a bottle of IMMUNITY. Taking Airborne, or even Quick Kill Cold, is like popping antibiotics everyday to try to boost your immunity and rid off colds. This is simply NOT the right tactic. Immunity contains tonics and herbs that balance your body. Boosting herbs like Ren Shen / Ginseng, Dang Gui / Angelica Sinensis, and Huang Qi / Astragalus are just a few of the tonics in our immunity boosting formula. Looking to have a cold free year? Grab a bottle of IMMUNITY!