Actually, the 100-day cough does exist. I didn't believe it
until I caught it about 5 yrs ago, and since then I've had 2 to 3
bouts of it which lasts for about 3 mths each time. It's a dry
incessant cough that makes it tough to even talk, e.g b4 I could
finish a sentence, I would have to bend over to cough, so you can
imagine how miserable it was to maintain daily life. No amount of
expectorants, cough syrup, Woods, Pi Pa Gao, etc. and
what-have-yous can cure it. Perhaps the only upside is the
incessant coughing helps to develop the stomach muscles(?).
Finally, the cure for me was to take "tong chong cao", i.e. the
Chinese medicine "winter-worm grass/herb". This is a worm in
summer, and during winter it kind of goes into hibernation and
subsequently, with the action of some micro-organism, the worm
turns into a root kind of herb, hence become a "cao" (grass). I
read this in Zaobao recently.
