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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hatakabb (Sim Tien Hor) Co., Ltd.The packaging of Takabb Anti-Cough Pill (herbal flavour), Hatakabb's primary product. The design features founder Shen Shuishi's portrait at the center and five centipedes.Native nameChinese nameTraditional Chinese沈天河（五蜈蚣標）有限公司Simplified Chinese沈天河（五蜈蚣标）有限公司Thai nameThaiบริษัท ห้าตะขาบ (ซิมเทียนฮ้อ)Company typePrivateIndustryPharmaceutical manufacturingFounderShen ShuishiHeadquarters1 Soi 44, Rama II Road, Tha Kham, Bang Khun Thian district, Bangkok, ThailandBrandsTakabb Anti-Cough PillWebsitewww.takabb.com/language/enTakabb Anti-Cough Pill is a throat lozenge. It is known in Thai as Takabb Ha Tua (ตะขาบ 5 ตัว, RTGS: Takhap Ha Tua), which literally means "five centipedes". It is the primary product of Hatakabb (Sim Tien Hor) Co., Ltd. (Thai: บริษัท ห้าตะขาบ (ซิมเทียนฮ้อ); Chinese: 沈天河（五蜈蚣标）有限公司), a Thai company that manufactures Chinese herbal medications. The cough pill has a distinctive packaging design featuring the pill creator's portrait surrounded by five centipedes. Although the logo depicts centipedes, the pill has no centipedes in its ingredients. Nine Chinese herbs make up the pill's ingredients. The Takabb Anti-Cough Pill is sold in almost every ASEAN country, and is very popular among Chinese tourists, who commonly purchase large amounts when visiting Thailand and Hong Kong.The pill's creator, Shen Shuishi, immigrated from China's Fujian province to Thailand in 1917. Using the Traditional Chinese medicine knowledge he had gained in his youth, Shen invented the anti-cough pill, which he began selling in 1935 to Thai pharmacies. After two decades of this, he in 1953 opened his own pharmacy, where he sold the pill and other Chinese medicines.After Shen died, his oldest son, Nivat Simawara, became the head of the company. Simawara shut down the pharmacy in favor of establishing the company Hatakabb in 1973 to mass-produce the cough medicines for sale. Since the Takabb pill is largely purchased by older people, the family business's second and third generations of leadership focused on broadening the company's appeal to younger demographics. The pill is bitter and makes consumers' tongues black. In the mid-2000s, the company began offering new flavors—mint, lemongrass, and plum—to attract younger consumers. To market the company to youth, it signed a partnership with a clothing company in 2019 to feature its logo on street style apparel.Shen Shuishi (simplified Chinese: 沈水狮; traditional Chinese: 沈水獅; pinyin: shěn shuǐ shī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sím chúi sai), known in Thai based on the Teochew pronunciation as Jui-Sai Sae-Sim (จุ้ยไซ แซ่ซิ้ม, RTGS: Chuisai Sae-Sim), was born in 1898 in Fujian, China.[a] His ancestral home was Zhao'an County in Fujian.[1][5] In his youth in Fujian, he acquired substantial expertise in Traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbology while assisting a doctor in compounding medicines.[3][6] Escaping a war occurring in China, Shen moved in 1917 with his family to Bang Khla district in Thailand.[1][2][3] To make a living, he worked as a gardener and did poultry farming until he had enough to funds to start a grocery store at the floating market in Bang Khla district.[2][3] In 1935, Shen moved to the Bangkok neighborhood of Talat Noi.[2] Continuing to do manual work by day, Shen spent evening hours and leisure time on making herbal medicines.[2] He concocted
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