Fortunately for him, one of his basketball-buddies, author of this article, is a Chinese medicine acupuncturist and herbalist. When he called me about his symptoms, I recommended he take a modern Chinese herbal flu home remedy called Honeysuckle & Bupleurum (pronounced Boo-plur-um).

It was also fortunate for David that I edit work of a well-known Chinese Medicine translator, Philippe Sionneau. Sionneau's book (published in France, but not yet in English), Modern Chinese Herbal Formulas, contains a bevy of home remedy solutions that marry ancient wisdom with modern-day pharmacology (drug actions). According to research, all 12 of traditional Chinese herbs in Honeysuckle & Bupleurum flu home remedy have either antiviral or antibacterial actions.

For most people, flu is a miserable two-week inconvenience. When you get sick, you miss work, you're less able to fulfill your responsibilities, you feel horrible - fun is out of question - when you do begin to feel better, there's a backlog of things to catch up on. You may start catch-up process before you have your energy back, thus ensuring more fatigue, and prolonging your recovery time.

This article is a joke, ok? Just want to make sure you don't take me wrong! Gotta keep your trust for my serious articles... :-)

It's amazing that it took medical science this long to put it together.

The Western world has known ever since we first landed in tropics about how effective tape worms can be for losing weight. And we've tried so many diet pills that didn't work.

What took physicians so long to realize that a tape worm diet pill was best way to harness nature's power to fight unstoppable food cravings she gave us?

Tape Worm Diet Pills in History

Historians tell us that early explorers who witnessed power of tape worm diet in 18th century Mexico were so fit and svelte, they simply considered it an uncivilized oddity. In fact, famous Portuguese mountaineer and sea explorer, Gustavo DeMenthes (1732-1782?), wrote in his Jornal do Partido, "These unfortunate indians not only cannot read or write, but they spend most of day trying to convince us to eat their strange bread recipe called 'Oreos'."

Historians are divided on ultimate fate of DeMenthes, though rumor has it (according to his first mate) that he smuggled a large stash of Oreos back to Portugal, and went mad when he ran out. It is a matter of public record that he was once thrown in jail about 6 months after returning to Portugal. The record shows that original charge of 'Attempting to Steal His Majesty's Frigate' was dropped and changed to 'Public Intoxication'. He soon after disappeared altogether from Portugal.

The Tape Worm Diet Pill in Late 19th Century New York Modern historians think it more than a coincidence that man who introduced tape worm diet pill to United States came from Mexico and was named Henriques Dimintio. He probably was DeMenthes' great great grandson. Dimintio traveled all way to New York City to make a fortune off his 'Oreos'. He met a young, energetic French baker named John Nabis, who loved cookie and thought it had Great Market Potential.

Then Dimintio explained how Oreos went perfectly with his traditional tape worm diet pill. Nabis wouldn't hear of it- he didn't care if people got fat, he wasn't going to sell worms and food to them at same time! The two new friends had already a lot of Mexican tequila, so argument quickly became a scuffle. Result: 12 crushed oreos, 105 dead tape worms, and 2 estranged business partners.