Sunday, September 11, 2011

Astragalus: The Great Energy Herb

By Brandon Daemon


Having a surplus or deficiency of chi can cause either Jing loss or a Jing storage. If we have a deficiency of chi, we are going to start to hook directly into our Jing savings account and truly start to shorten our lifespan, truly undermine our health. If we are able to have a surplus of chi, a surplus of everyday energy over a significant period of time, we're actually going to be in a position to build Jing and deposit energy into our checking account that's then going to push and lengthen our lifespan.

Astragalus is a really topical and important herb to be taking presently, as the seasons are changing and we're going from summer into the Indian summer, which is that in-between time between summer and autumn, and then from autumn we're going into winter. Now since astragalus is a chi and a blood tonic, it may help us stay warm, it may 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 can come at us as the seasons are changing.

It's also a great immune tonic, explaining why it's really important at this time at this time of the year, because this is the time of the year when everyone starts to become ill, everyone is beginning to catch a cold and catch a pathogen and miss work, whatever. This is really when that energy is beginning to creep up. Because we're going from the energy of the earth component, which is linked with Indian summer, we're going into autumn or fall, which is connected 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 people get dry lungs, dry throat, and then their immune system gets a little feeble 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 system, and start to make sure we are keeping our body warm and keeping our defensive energy powerful. Astragalus is the perfect herb to begin to take right at this time because it's in step with what nature is already 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 that you can take at night prior to going to bed, you can take it any time and it isn't going to offer you energy in that sense. When people think energy, we think coffee, we think Red Bull, whatever, so I just want to make clear that astragalus does not act like this, it does not act on the nervous system, it doesn't excite the adrenals, it doesn't irritate at the body in any fashion. It produces more energy in the body at the elemental level by toning up the basic cellular processes that actually generate our energy.




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