Sunday, September 11, 2011

Astragalus: The Neutralizer

By Brandon Daemon


Having a surplus or deficiency of chi can end up in either Jing loss or a Jing storage. If we have got a deficiency of chi, we're going to start to tap into our Jing saving account and really begin to shorten our lifespan, actually enfeeble our health. If we may be able to have a surplus of chi, a surplus of day-to-day energy over a long period of time, we are essentially going to be able to build Jing and deposit energy into our bank account that is then going to plug and lengthen our lifespan.

Astragalus is a very relevant and crucial herb to be taking currently, because the seasons are changing and we are going from summer into the Indian summer, which is that in-between time between summer and autumn, and then from autumn we are going into winter. Now since astragalus is a chi and a blood tonic, it will help us stay warm, it's going to help us have better circulation, it's going to help us keep our extremities warm, and help build up our body's resistance to cold and what's called "noxious energy" that will come at us as the seasons are changing.

It is also a great immune tonic, which is the reason why it's particularly crucial right now at this time of the year, because this is the time of the year when everybody begins to become sick, everybody is starting to catch a cold and catch a virus and miss work, whatever. This is actually when that energy starts to creep up. Because we are going from the energy of the earth element, which is connected with Indian summer, we are going into autumn or fall, which is associated with the lungs.

What can happen is our lung energy or lung chi can begin to be deficient, our spleen chi can be deficient, so folk get dry lungs, dry throat, and then their immune mechanism gets a little weak and then they catch a cold, and then all of these things begin to occur. This is really a prime time of the year to start to build up our chi, build up our immune response, and start to be sure we are keeping our body warm and keeping our defensive energy strong. Astragalus is the perfect herb to start taking right at this time because it's in harmony with what nature is already doing with the seasonal changes.

Astragalus is likely one of the most well-liked and most well-tolerated and handiest chi tonics. Now as we start, I want to state, distinguish and make clear that when I mean chi and energy, I do not mean kick, I don't mean a jolt or a burst of energy like we will be able to regularly associate with the term "energy" or "energy tonic."

Astragalus extract is something you can take at night before you go to bed, you can take it any time and it's not going to give you energy in that sense. When folks think energy, we think coffee, we think Red Bull, whatever, so I just wish to make clear that astragalus doesn't act like this, it doesn't act on the nerve system, it does not stimulate the adrenals, it does not irritate at the body in any way. It produces more energy in the body at the basic level by toning up the basic cellular processes that truly generate our energy.




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