Sunday, September 11, 2011

Astragalus: The Great Energy Herb

By Brandon Daemon


Having a surplus or deficiency of chi can lead to either Jing loss or a Jing storage. If we've got a deficiency of chi, we're going to start to hook right into our Jing high-interest account and actually begin to shorten our lifespan, really weaken our health. If we can have a surplus of chi, a surplus of day to day energy over a lengthy period of time, we are basically going to be well placed to build Jing and deposit energy into our account that is then going to promote 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 occur is our lung energy or lung chi can start to be deficient, our spleen chi can be deficient, so folks get dry lungs, dry throat, and then their immunological reaction gets a little puny and then they catch a cold, and then all these things start to happen. This is a prime time of the year to begin to build up our chi, build up our immunological reaction, and start to make certain we're keeping our body warm and keeping our defensive energy robust. Astragalus is the ideal herb to start to take right at this time because it's in sync with what nature is doing with the seasonal changes.

Astragalus is likely one of the hottest and most well-tolerated and most effective chi tonics. Now as we begin, I would like to state, distinguish and make clear that when I mean chi and energy, I don't mean stimulation, I do not mean a jolt or a rush of energy like we will often associate with the term "energy" or "energy tonic."

Astragalus extract is something you can take at night before going to bed, you can take it any time and it is not going to give you energy in that sense. When folk think energy, we think coffee, we think Red Bull, whatever, so I just need 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 fundamental level by toning up the basic cellular processes that really generate our energy.




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