{"id":239,"date":"2009-10-09T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T02:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/?p=239"},"modified":"2009-10-12T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T08:32:50","slug":"what-is-chuan-bei-mu-%e5%b7%9d%e8%b4%9d%e6%af%8d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"What is Chuan Bei Mu (\u5ddd\u8d1d\u6bcd)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"None\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-238\" title=\"chuan bei mu \u5ddd\u8d1d\u6bcd\" src=\"http:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/chuanbei.jpg\" alt=\"chuan bei mu \u5ddd\u8d1d\u6bcd\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/chuanbei.jpg 760w, https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/chuanbei-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I got a picture of it, let me introduce what this is.\u00a0 Chuan Bei is included in many off-the-shelf chinese cough medicine.\u00a0 This helps to relieve cough.\u00a0 Apparently there are many grades of it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not a expert which is the best, but I will go for at least the mid range to high range.\u00a0 It cost in the range of S$15-S$20 for a tael\u00a0\u00a0(liang).\u00a0\u00a0The shop\u00a0keep should be able to advise, as some are less bitter.<\/p>\n<p>Other than boiling drinks like the pear drink to relief cough, it can also be used as a\u00a0&#8220;filler&#8221; grounded with pearl (\u73cd\u73e0\uff09into fine powder, which\u00a0is fed to babies or toddlers (in the grounded form) when they have\u00a0lots of phlegm.\u00a0 As the amount of pearl is so little, chuan bei makes a good\u00a0&#8220;filler&#8221;, ie ground\u00a0together with the pearl to increase the\u00a0content of the\u00a0final gounded powder.\u00a0 It not only act as a filler (to increase the quantity for easy feeding) but also helps to relief cough, which usually comes with phlegm.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to grind it yourself, the shopkeeper of the chinese medicine shop has their special mortar and pestle to\u00a0grind them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I got a picture of it, let me introduce what this is.\u00a0 Chuan Bei is included in many off-the-shelf chinese cough medicine.\u00a0 This helps to relieve cough.\u00a0 Apparently there are many grades of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,169],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking-tips","category-with-tcm","tag-chuan-bei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werynice.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}