Defensive Qi – What's that?
Defensive Qi (vital energy) within your body can become depleted during winter illness.
The end of winter is a good time to restore your
Defensive Qi and head into spring with your best foot forward.
Maintaining good
health can be a dance of push and pull. In Chinese herbal medicine a cold or flu is initiated by pathogenic
Qi, a force that follows the penetrating cold into the body to spark an illness. Your Defensive
Qi (vital energy) however, is poised ready to resist infection and ‘push back’ to protect you from getting sick.
Turning up the heat
During winter you can help keep pathogenic
Qi at bay by ensuring your internal warmth is strong; wearing your winter woollies, enjoying hearty warm winter foods and incorporating herbs and spices that fan your internal furnace and support healthy circulation such as ginger and black pepper.
Time to rebuild
Defensive
Qi can become depleted during a winter illness, increasing susceptibility to repeat infections and exhaustion. Strong Defensive
Qi however, increases your
resistance to getting a cold, and
restores your reserves after a cold to enhance your
recovery, so you are ready to respond to a potential future illness. The end of winter is a good time to restore your Defensive Qi, and here’s how…
Herbs to replenish Defensive Qi
Chinese herbs, known as ‘immune restoratives’ can help
replenish Defensive Qi. They are also known to help restore a
healthy immune system and assist recovery from colds, flu, and minor infection. The ‘
immune restorative’ herbs in
Fusion® Health Astra 8 Immune Tonic support healthy
immune system recovery during convalescence and restore depleted white blood cells after an infection;
- Astragalus membranaceus
- Codonopsis pilosula
- Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi)
- Eleutherococcus senticosus (Siberian Ginseng)
- Atractylodes macrocephala
- Ligustrum lucidum
- Schisandra chinensis
- Glycyrrhiza uralensis (Licorice)
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As always, whatever questions or concerns you have about your
health this winter, all you have to do is drop by Mr Vitamins and ‘
Ask a Naturopath’.