Wind-Heat Evil

I love the English translations on Chinese medicinal products.

Take this one, for Compound Bamboo Juice:

... to treat acute and chronic pneumonia, tracheitis, bronchitis, flaming-up of deficiency-fire, dry and sore throat, upper respiratory tract infection, cough due to wind-heat evil, thick viscous phlegm due to pulmonary heat, fever caused by rheum or virus flu, chronic cough due to heat phlegm, and age asthma.

It's not that the English is all that bad, it's that the description makes the product sound fantastic.

If I ever have trouble with flaming-up of deficiency-fire, I'll know just what to take.

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