Planetary Herbals Yin Chiao Classic 450 mg Immune Formulas for Seasonal Support -120 Tablets

Helps to prevent and shorten the length of a cold.

I've been using Yin Chiao pills for over 25 years. I offer them to people all the time, when they first feel a sore throat coming on or sneeze for the first time. It's a tough sell, though. How can you prove that something prevents something from happening? I swear by them. I have some at home, some at work. Don't want to miss taking them right away! You'll have to make your own decisions, though, about which brands are best. I must have thought these folks were reliable. Probably checked their ingredient list against the brand I got from my acupuncturist. (Listing ingredients is a darn good sign, don't you think? I wouldn't buy any herbal, especially any herbal with multiple ingredients, without seeing what's in it.) I don't take them as directed on the site. I take 3 or 4 or 5 when I feel the very first symptom (or...better yet...when I get that slightly-off feeling before any symptom at all) and again when it occurs to me to do so. And then I don't get sick. But maybe I wasn't *going* to get sick. Don't know. Don't much care. Maybe it's all just placebo effect. Don't mind. I'm happy to just never have the cold or sore throat materialize. I'm happy to have the malaise go away. A couple decades back, the Chinese ones in the green and white box got so popular you could get them at the check-out at Whole Paycheck in Mill Valley instead of finding them in Chinatown (SF). Now I prefer to let someone else vet the quality of the herbs that go in the magic pills.

While there is no medicinal guarantee, I've found this to help me stay healhy and boost immunity. I swear by it, especially during cold season

Great to have around for flu season

I swear by yin chiao to prevent colds and have recommended it to multiple friends. The one place I go to buy is Kamwo in NYC so it's much easier to just get it shipped. The quality is good and it works for fending off colds or keeping them from starting.

Took some during winter but still ended up being sick. Perhaps not as long as if I was not taking them but still my expectations were higher for this miracle supplement.

I've been using yin chiao for more than three decades. I've told dozens of people about it, and their near-universal experience (only one exception I can remember) is that yin chiao consistently fights off any kind of bug that seems to be coming on. Key is to start early, and make you sure you take it for 2-3 days after the symptoms subside. At least that's been important to me, to prevent relapse. Only side effect, especially after a few days usage, is that it can be a bit constipating. I started buying the American-made Planetary Herbals version a few years ago after always buying Chinese-made yin chiao. I never had any problems with the Chinese-made versions—the familiar brown wafers in a plastic tubes or the small yellow pills—but it feels good to know these are made in the USA. And they are equally effective. A game-changing herbal medicine that should be as well known as aspirin.

I have been using Yin Chiao for about 10 years and it has really helped reduce the number of colds I get - less than one a year and those that I do get are not as strong symptom wise as those around me. Trick is to start taking it at very FIRST 'sign' of a cold...that point where you don't even feel a symptom, but just have that vague "I don't feel 100% and my ears/nose/throat are tingly". I take 3-4 tablets every 3-4 hours along with 1 to TBS of the Source Naturals Herbal Wellness Liquid and get a little extra rest for about 2 days and generally whatever it is never settles in.