Breathe Again Concentrated Decoction™

Breathe Again™ was originally crafted at the request of a Holistic Pediatrician who needed something her young patients would actually take. The brief was simple: a formula that could stop coughs and clear infections in children — and that tasted good enough that parents wouldn’t have to fight to get it down. The result, refined over twenty-seven years and over 2 million doses delivered, is one of Si Jin Bao’s most-loved products and the over-the-counter version of our flagship A.I.R.™ professional formula — trusted by both Eastern and Western Physicians, and by the families they care for.

What makes Breathe Again different from a typical drugstore cough syrup is what’s not in it: no alcohol, no artificial sweeteners, no synthetic suppressants, no dyes. What’s in it is nine classical Chinese herbs in a vegetable glycerin base — the same nine-herb formulation a practitioner would use, made available without a prescription for families who already know it works.

The formula is alcohol-free, vegan, kid-friendly, and tastes good enough to take on its own. That last point matters more than it sounds: a cough formula a child won’t swallow doesn’t help anyone. That’s been the design constraint from day one, and it’s what’s made Breathe Again a household staple in homes that have used it across generations.

Breathe Again™ is built for the common upper-respiratory presentations that bring families to the medicine cabinet: coughs of all kinds, runny and stuffy noses, sinus pressure, post-viral lingering coughs that won’t quit, and the watery-itchy-eyes-and-sneezing miseries that come with seasonal allergies. The formula’s classical Chinese architecture — open the nose, resolve the phlegm, support the lungs, tone the immune foundation — addresses the underlying patterns that produce those symptoms rather than just suppressing them.

Breathe Again™ works through three integrated layers, addressing what TCM calls Wind-Phlegm with Lung-Qi disharmony — the pattern beneath the cough, the cold, and the seasonal allergy.

Three nose-openers — Magnolia Flower (Xin Yi Hua), Xanthium Fruit (Cang Er Zi), and Dahurian Angelica (Bai Zhi) — form the classical Chinese sinus-clearing trio. They open blocked nasal passages, drain trapped sinus pressure, and clear infection-related discharge. This is the layer that produces the rapid relief patients feel first.

Four phlegm-and-cough specialists — Platycodon Root (Jie Geng), Magnolia Bark (Hou Po), Plantago Seed (Che Qian Zi), and Fresh Ginger (Sheng Jiang) — address the cough itself. They open the lungs, transform thick phlegm, drain damp downward, and harmonize the formula’s overall warmth. Together they handle everything from a wet productive cough to a tight wheezy chest to a dry tickly post-cold lingering cough.

Two foundational tonics — Psoralea Fruit (Bu Gu Zhi) and Glehnia Root (Bei Sha Shen) — support the deeper constitutional foundation. Psoralea helps the lungs grasp and hold the breath (the underlying support that prevents recurring respiratory weakness); Glehnia nourishes the lung’s natural moisture so the warming herbs don’t dry out the airways. Together they make Breathe Again appropriate for sustained use, not just acute episodes.