Once again, I had another personal ailment cured by some crazy Chinese remedy.
Every year, I develop a nasty cough in the Winter months. Last year, my cough was so bad that I couldn’t even sleep without coughing my lungs out and waking up throughout the night. While hesitant to run home and tell mommy where it hurts, like most inquisitive mothers, my mom found out about my chronic cough soon enough.
Naturally, my mom gave me the most ridiculous cough syrup for me to try.
…African Sea Coconut syrup. Yes, whatever thoughts that are going through your mind right now were exactly those that went through mine.
Yet despite my reservations, the remedy worked like a charm. The rest of the labels is in Chinese so I really have no idea what the rest of the ingredients are.
In terms of growing up as a young Asian-American, my experience with this magical juice reminded me of the outright rejection most Westerners have towards Eastern medicine (not only Chinese medicine). Westerners historically have been reluctant to accept Asian chiropractors, accupuncture, herbs, medicine, and in my case – African Sea Coconut Juice.
However, regardless of the means, Eastern medicine more often than not works. No matter how perplexing the remedies may seem 
Heck, I even did some research and Amazon.com
A colleague gave me a bottle of this cough mixture when I had severe bronchitis. It was like a miracle! My coughing decreased immediately without any side effects. I asked 2 Chinese friends about it and they said that they always use it. Since it is made from all natural ingredients, there is no drowsiness or headaches. This is a hidden gem.
Several years ago, I came down with laryngitis that quickly turned into bronchitis. I turned to the usual over-the-counter stuff to relieve the symptoms, but nothing worked. Then a colleague at work recommended African Sea Coconut cough syrup. It was expensive by comparison to the commercial stuff, but what did I have to lose?
Well, I tried it, and…lo and behold!…it worked! It not only worked, but it was a pleasure to use. Unlike the usual stuff from the drug store, it actually tastes good, as well as calming coughs and helping get rid of congestion.
It’s available in most health food stores. If you’re local shop it having trouble getting it, it *is* available online. It may be somewhat more expensive than the commercial stuff, but it’s better than throwing money away on something that doesn’t work at all.
This product surely is the best kept secret! I have tested every cough medicine that you can imagine. You name it, I’ve had take it, and no one ( and I have to say that again) No other medicine that I’ve taken before ever cured me as fast and as effective as this one. This medicine not only relieves you from all of your symptoms ( sore scratchy throat, tickling, cough,congestion,etc.), it absolutely cures you by addressing the cause of them, which is by loosening all the stucked phlegm no metter if it is in your head, and you elliminate it by your nose. Or if it is already in your lungs and you elliminate it by coughing. Give this product a try, and you will absolutely remember and thank me for it!!!!
Who knows, African Sea Coconut may even be the cure to cancer and global poverty 
Asians Good At Math, Followup
May 20th, 2009Following the Why Asians Are Good At Math post I wrote back in February, a few comments came up that I feel are necessary to clarify.
After reading Malcolm Gladwell’s position and possible explanation to the Asian-Americans are good at math phenomenon,
David had this to say:
While Mr. “Not_An_Asian” followed up with:
As David and company bring up valid arguments and points, the arguments rely on faulty logic.
The intricacies in a few Asian languages MAY present an advantage. With that said, an argument dictating that one characteristic may give a person an advantage fails to imply, without that advantage, that a same person will struggle.
For instance:
Being tall may give you an advantage at basketball. But not being tall doesn’t mean you will struggle, nor does it preclude you from other traits that would give you an advantage (i.e., speed, agility, endurance, etc…)
With that said, the theory attempts to explain why a larger percentage of Asian-Americans (and we know it’s a percentage since the SAT is scored in percentiles), succeed at math.
Language is a clearly identifiable trait you can associate to specific subsets of people and, to a degree, isolate as a factor that contributes to mathematical prowess.
And sure, there are plenty of mathematical genius’ around that are not Asian (Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Steve Nash, etc…). But we are not looking at the outliers, instead we are looking to explain why Asians as a group score higher in math than other groups.
I’m not saying the theory is true, for the pure fact that theories are unproven assertions, my contention is Malcolm Gladwell’s theory presents a new and refreshed theory to explain some American social phenomenon.
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