Bottles of the medicine, which includes ingredients such as loquat leaf and pomelo peel, go for around $5 in pharmacies in Hong kong, where it is mostly manufactured.
瓶装批把膏,成分有批把叶和柚子皮,其主要产地是香港,目前每瓶在香港药店卖5美元。
But they fetch around three times that price when sold through third parties on Amazon, an e-emporium, in America.
但是在美国amazon电商平台通过第三方售价为香港的3倍。
Traditional Chinese medicines have been steadily gaining interest in the West, spurred on in part by the social-media craze for “biohacking”, which focuses on improving health through experimental-and often spurious-fads.
Chugging herbal cough syrup is but one example (Pei Pei Koa is unlikely to receive the blessing of America’s Food and Drug administration any time soon)
猛灌草本止咳糖浆就是一个例子,但是短期内批把膏不太可能拿到美国食品药监局的许可。
blessing 祝福,许可,(非正式)准许
administer 管理,施用(药物)
Tutorial on how to administer it have racked up millions of views on TikTok.