for aguywithuc (qing dai)

Dude, I saw you take the qing dai. Man I'm having problems with the powder. It doesn't mix well with water so the only solution I found is to open my mouth, drop 1-2g on my tongue and down it quickly with water. However, in some cases, like two night ago, I almost chocked on it because I guess I kinda inhaled through my mouth a bit while trying to down it so part of the powder went on the wrong track...mother....f

I need to find some pills to throw the powder in. Do you use a powder version or a pill version.

Where do you buy it from, you have a link or something.

 

You can buy empty capsules on amazon. I've bought them before.

I mix it with oatmeal in the morning:
1/4 tsp of Qing Dai
2 Tablespoons (about) of instant oatmeal
cinnamon
sugar or honey
Add a little hot water, mix it up, and you don't taste the Qing Dai at all. Plus, you get to eat blue oatmeal.

I've also found that you don't taste it much in spaghetti sauce or chocolate pudding. If I'm not in an oatmeal mood, I eat it with Nutella (the chocolate spread) that has a super strong taste. One teaspoon of that and I don't even notice the Qing Dai.

Anyone having results on this? I have been taking it for 6 weeks and I'm slightly improved but I've also changed my meds so it's hard to say what's doing what. In the study, the people were on it for 4 months, so it may take a couple months to see results, so I'm sticking with it religiously. I'm also thinking of getting some from a different supplier to see if maybe that makes a difference.

Levi said...
This is what I do...I think he does too:

Put a little water in your mouth and tilt your head back so it's pooled and then drop the spoonful on top of the pool of water. I add a little more water and swallow in one gulp. Most of the time the qing dai doesn't touch any surface in my mouth.

Yes that is what I do and a good reminder as I have not taken any in a couple days.

Perfect shot !

You can wind up getting water all over the front of your shirt so developing a 'talent' for tasteless shots of qing dai.

For two days (this is the second) I've used Qing Dai in an attempt to eliminate long term proctitis symptoms brought on by UC. There is a study on the Internet that demonstrated Qing Dai enemas help patients with proctitis triggered by radiation therapy. I decided to give this therapy a whirl. It's very early in the process, but things seems to be working.

I bought my Qing Dai from a local Chinese Herbalist. The cost was $10 for a tael (about 31 grams). I will likely find another source for my herb since the herbalist was in desperate need of customer relations training.

My protocol is simple:
(1) I use Rowasa bottles to deliver the enema. I have a lot of recently expired Rowasa that I will never use so I dump the Mesalamine and rinse the bottles out with sterile water.
(2) I boil about a gram of Qing Dai for a few minutes in about 80 mL of water. The idea is to sterilize it. It's true that Qing Dai does not dissolve well. It's also worthy of mention that a small amount of lime (calcium carbonate) can be seen once the herb is mixed with water. My wife read a Chinese language web site about Qing Dai and it stated small amounts of lime are added to the herb during processing. I suspect the lime keeps the herb in a powder form.
(3) After the Qing Dai solution cools to room temperature I add it to my Rowasa bottle and use as a retention enema.

If the Qing Dai enemas work as I hope they will, I will be sure to share the results.