Shang Han & Wen B

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Geoff,

 

In Korea, they say you shouldn't take Ginseng until you hit 40.

It tonifies the yuan qi strongly, especially the red (processed).

 

I've seen people who do a lot of qi gong with the intent of tonifying

and not moving the qi, so they get really stagnant and hot.

 

Another reason to add Fang feng to Yu ping feng san,

to add some movement to Huang qi and Bai zhu...

 

Thanks.

 

 

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:38 PM, G Hudson <crudo20 wrote:

 

> John,

> Sorry - I don't remember if I read it somewhere or a teacher had

> mentioned it in conjunction with adaptogenic herbs. And I could be

> completely off-base there. On a related note, I do remember a few

> years back when they started selling ginseng extract in all the quicky

> marts and we started seeing patients with anxiety, dark urine,

> insomnia, palpitations, fevers, etc - only to find out they were

> popping ginseng left and right. Our profs generally preferred huang qi

> for a general qi tonic since it doesn't get locked in the body as ren

> shen can.

>

> Geoff

>

> C--- In

<%40>,

> " "

> <johnkokko wrote:

> >

> > Geoff,

> >

> > You mentioned,

> > " There was some research at some point regarding the negative effect of

> > hyperstimulating the

> > immune system. "

> >

> > This interests me. Can you elaborate on this or point to where we

> can read

> > up on this research?

> > Thanks.

> >

> > K.

>

>

>

 

 

 

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