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

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

Yin Chiao supplements have been my go-to for years whenever i feel like I'm getting sick. When I feel something "coming on" - such as a cold or throat issue, I take one supplement at bedtime as well as gargle with "Gargle Away" - a turmeric/ginger formula that works great. This is my one-two punch and works wonders!

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.

Helps to prevent and shorten the length of a cold.

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.

Great to have around for flu season

I have been very successful using this to combat colds and sinus problems. It is a staple in my medicine cabinet; one of those rare unknown products that really works for me. I can't recommend it more highly. I gave it to a friend who had chronic sinus infection breath, and they were better in two days. Update: Seems there might be some misleading advertisement on the 750mg size tablets of this. I saw on a different advertisement for this same product that you have to take "2" of these tablets to achieve the 750 mg dose. Minor detail that is left out of that specific size of the product description, effectively making the price of this product double what it appears. The bottle labeled 450mg tablets seems to have a clearer label and price.

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.