Flu and URI F4: Flu or URI with neck pain and tightness, no sweat, Bell's palsy or neck and shoulder problems.
1. Flu and URI (upper respiratory infection): F4 is very commonly used in treating flu patients, especially children. A study from Japan using the F4 formula with antibiotics to treat 100 pediatric sinus infection patients found all patients improved or cured in six to eight weeks. F4 also is used to treat geriatric URI in Japan; a study showed a total effectiveness rate of 90 percent, better than the comparison group using regular medicine, P<0.05.
2. Neck pain: Four studies of 320 neck or cervical problems patients who took F4 for up to two months found 125 patients were cured (39.06 percent), 81 significantly improved (25.31 percent), 95 improved (29.69 percent), 13 did not improve (4.06 percent) and 6 needed surgery (1.88 percent).
3. Bell's Palsy: Nine studies from China and Japan of 399 Bell's Palsy patients treated with F4 for up to 30 days found 377 patients were cured (94.48 percent), 17 significantly improved (4.26 percent), two improved and only three did not improve after treatment.
4. Cerebral embolism stroke: 58 patients were treated with F4 or its modifications (47 male, 11 female, from 32 to 81 years old). 45 patients started taking F4 within one week of the stroke. Of them, 43 patients were cured (74.13 percent), 14 improved (24.13 percent) and only one did not improve after treatment.
5. Urticaria: 51 urticaria patients, 46 acute and 5 chronic, were treated with F4 for two weeks and were all cured.
6. Frozen shoulder: 100 patients were treated with F4 and acupressure and 94 were cured, 5 improved and one did not improve.
7. Pediatric fever: 110 children with fever took F4 and all fever was gone in an average of 1.5 days.
Toxicity and side effects: In lab test, all mice were normal under the dosage at 2.5g/Kg, which is 17 times higher than the normal adult dosage. Few side effects such as minor nausea, vomiting, weakness and constipation have been reported.
