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Important Qualities About Astragalus Root

• Extremely Rich In Zinc
• Balancing and Tonfying To The Immune System
• Helps The Body Adapt To and Handle Stress Much More Easily and Effectively
• Is A Great Chi Tonic, So It Helps Us To Have More Day To Day Energy
• Tonifies The Metabolic and Respiratory Functions
• Tonifies The Spleen, Lung, and Triple Warmer Energies
• Currently Being Heavily Studied For Its Anti-Aging and DNA Protective Effects

Astragalus can be used by pretty much anyone who wants to just strengthen their entire body. Whether young or old, male or female, it is an herb that is ideally consumed every day because it tones up so many important processes in our body.  Benefits of astragalus include tonifying spleen chi and improving digestion and metabolism. Astraglus is also used to treat chronic auto-immune system symptoms such as eczema since it is a double-direction immune modulator that strengthens a weakened immune system.

Astragalus is really rich in zinc and selenium, which is likely why it is so good for our immune system and so good for toning up the functioning of our immune system and our reproductive functions as well.  These minerals are often associated with all of these functions.  Also, astragalus is really rich in polysaccharides like cordyceps, like reishi, like aloe vera, and many of other great immune tonics. These polysaccharides basically reeducate our immune system and help it balance out deficiencies and help to balance out excesses.

For many people who use astragalus regularly, the herb provides more efficient mental and physical processes of producing day-to-day energy.  Astragalus can help our minds and bodies find a place of balance and homeostasis, and then over time, create a stronger and more intelligent mind-body. Astragalus is said to tonify upright chi and reduce protrusions in the lower abdomen resulting from prolapse in conjunction with doing abdominal lifts or other exercises to tone up my abdominal muscles.  After about a month of astragalus, that slight prolapse may reverse and pull itself back up into its position.  Also, many feel that it becomes a lot easier to just stand up and be upright and not feel like the body is being pulled down so heavily from gravity with the use of astragalus.

One of the main things that people notice is that its use greatly enhances digestion, meaning that they feel able to eat smaller quantities of food and be less hungry, but actually digest and assimilate more, and more importantly, actually put on muscle mass a lot easier and put on high-quality tissue and flesh a lot easier and more effectively.  Dietary changes are important as well with the consumption of more protein and essential nutrients of that nature. Astragalus can play a tremendous role in toning up the functioning of the spleen and helping overall digestive processes.

Many who take astragalus extract notice that they feel warm a lot more easily. Oftentimes, we get cold hands, cold feet, or not really want to go out in the cold and just would rather be warm and just stay inside especially when it is getting colder and it is starting to turn to autumn and winter. On the contrary, with consistent use of astragalus, many look forward to getting out into the cold and notice it feels more manageable with better circulation coursing throughout the body.  Primarily, these effects are attributed to the abilities of astragalus to tone up the functions of the lung and the spleen.

Having a surplus or deficiency of chi can lead to either Jing loss or a Jing storage. If we have a deficiency of chi, we’re going to start to tap into our Jing savings account and really start to shorten our lifespan, really undermine our health. If we are able to have a surplus of chi, a surplus of day-to-day energy over a long period of time, we’re actually going to be able to build Jing and deposit energy into our bank account that’s then going to promote and lengthen our lifespan.

Astragalus is a really relevant and important herb to be taking at this moment, because 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’s going to 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 can come at us as the seasons are changing.

It’s also a great immune tonic, which is why it’s really important right now at this time of the year, because this is the time of the year when everyone starts to get sick, everyone is starting to catch a cold and catch a virus and miss work, whatever. This is really when that energy is starting to creep up.  Because we’re going from the energy of the earth element, which is associated with Indian summer, we’re going into autumn or fall, which is associated with the lungs.

What can happen is our lung energy or lung chi can start to be deficient, our spleen chi can be deficient, so people get dry lungs, dry throat, and then their immune system gets a little weak and then they catch a cold, and then all these things start to happen. 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’re 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 popular and most well-tolerated and most effective chi tonics. Now as we begin, I want to state, distinguish and make clear that when I mean chi and energy, I don’t mean stimulation, I don’t mean a jolt or a rush of energy like we can often associate with the term “energy” or “energy tonic.”

Astragalus 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 people think energy, we think coffee, we think Red Bull, whatever, so I just want to make clear that astragalus doesn’t act like this, it doesn’t act on the nervous system, it doesn’t stimulate the adrenals, it doesn’t 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 actually generate our energy.

Astragalus As An Energy Tonic

Since astragalus is an energy tonic and it of course, increases our chi, and it is said that the more chi we have circulating in our system, basically the more alive we are. If you look at what separates something that is dead from something that is alive, it’s basically the presence and the movement of this energy. The more that we have, the more alive we’ll be, the more clear we can think, and the more we’ll actually be able to accomplish. The more we can work to open our energy channels, our meridians, our our pathways, the more chi that we can accumulate and the more energy and life we can have.  And really, there’s no limit to the amount of chi that we can accumulate.

Now, like most chi tonics, astragalus works by toning up the functions of our lungs and our spleen. Most of our energy come from the air that we breath, from the food that we eat, so we can optimize these processes by making our lungs more efficient, by making our spleen and digestive functions more efficient, the more energy that we’ll naturally have. Without having to resort to any kind of stimulant or any kind of other strategy that we might be leaning on to get ourselves through the day.

The spleen governs our energy production from food and regulates all of our energy transformation.  It nourishes our flesh, regulates our appetite, and controls our digestion and assimilation, and basically provides energy to our entire body. You can think the more balanced your appetite is, the better your digestion is, the better your simulation is, the less you’re going to have to eat and the better digestion you’re going to feel, or the better digestion you’re going to have and the more energy you’re going to have, the better you’re going to feel.

Eating a big meal is one of the main things that saps people’s energy and knocks them out. They are eating food and then what happens? They’re out to lunch, they got to take a nap or rest, and just can’t really function. If we can tone up the synergy, strengthen this energy, we automatically feel better, digest better, eat less, our weight balances out–whether we need to gain weight, we gain weight, we gain weight when we need to lose weight, we lose weight–it just balances out where it should be.

Astragalus also tones up the functions of the lungs because the lungs extract chi from the air that we breath and distributes this chi throughout our meridian system and to our skin, where it provides our defensive energy, or what is called our wei chi. Basically, this is our first line of defense against microbes, fungus, yeast, mold, hot, cold, whatever it is that’s trying to come at us and throw our body out of balance.

if you eat food and you have nutrients which are basically providing energy to your body, how do those nutrients get transported throughout your body to your blood?  The Chinese believe that chi leads blood, meaning wherever chi flows, blood soon follows. Thus, as our body fills with energy, blood is also produced and circulated. So if we can tone up the process of building good, clean, healthy blood and tone up the functioning of that circulation, we’re naturally going to have more energy.

Astragalus As A Metabolic Tonic

When our spleen system is in optimum health, our appetite is excellent and balanced, our muscles are strong and limber, our memory is sharp and clear, and our mind is full of vitality and will actually cultivate wisdom. When our lung is in optimum health, we’re able to breathe deep, fully, and our blood is pure and our skin is radiant. The function of the skin, the health of the skin, the beauty of the skin, is tied up within the functioning of the lungs, because the lungs are associated with the large intestines and the skin so it sort of improves the health of our lungs, we improve the health of our large intestine, we improve the health of our skin.

Now we can eat the best food in the world, and spend thousands of dollars every month on the greatest food on the planet and most nutrient-dense things, but if our digestion is weak and we can’t assimilate it, if our circulation is weak and we can’t move it through the body, we’re really going to be getting suboptimal results. We really want to focus on toning up the function of the spleen and the lungs through taking tonic herbs like astragalus.

Astragalus is also a tonic to what’s called the “triple warmer.” The triple warmer isn’t really in a system or an organ that we can really define easily in Western terms, and it is generally kind of confusing at first. It’s pretty easy to grasp once someone actually lays it out for you.  So it is believed that we have what is called “triple warmers” that nourishes the upper, middle, and a lower and these basically just are in charge of moving and distributing energy and fluids throughout the body.

So the triple warmer basically integrates the central functions of metabolism and elimination. It’s responsible for our production of our essential energy, which is our nutritive Yin chi, which flows through our meridians and then, of course, our defensive wei chi, which is like our immune system, and protects us from outside forces. It’s composed of three different things called the different burning spaces, or “warmers,” or which basically represent the different aspects of our three body cavities, being the upper thoracic, the abdominal and the pelvic.

The upper burning space could kind of be where your heart is located, right in the middle, and is in charge of the heart and the lung functions, which is in charge of the distribution of your Yin chi and our wei chi.  And the middle burning space is harmonizing the functions of the stomach and the spleen, and is in charge of the attraction of energy from our food, the breakdown of our food into energy and basic nutrients that we can absorb.  Then the lower burning space harmonizes the functions of the kidney, intestine and the bladder, and is in charge of absorbing nutrients, eliminating waste, energy storage and of course, our reproductive functions.

You can see how toning up these functions would be important, because if they’re relaxed and they’re not functioning properly, we’re not going to have the energy, we’re not going to absorb, and we’re probably going to retain water and retain weight.  We’ll be cold and have poor appetite and just not feel as alive and fully as we could.  So basically, harmonizing the functions of the triple warmer or the triple burner is essential if we’re going towards optimal health and longevity. Astragalus is one of the best herbs to tone up the functioning of these three spaces.

Astragalus and It’s Protective Functions

In China, astragalus is actually considered sometimes to be even superior to ginseng as an energizer, as a chi tonic. Astragalus is used often to strengthen the legs and the arms, and this is really important for people who work outdoors, especially in the cold, especially in all times of the year. For most of us, pretty much all of us who are working and living our lives day-to-day, having to deal with the stress, having to deal with all the demands that are put on our energy, pretty much every moment of every single day.

Astragalus is said to have another effect on the service of our body, meaning that it tones up our protective energy, our wei chi because basically it is our first line of defense and/or our immune system that can protect us from external threats.  And this protective energy is a special kind of energy that circulates just under our skin and in the muscle. This protective chi, or this wei chi, circulates in the tissues and helps provide supplements to our skin and helps provide adaptive energy to our skin.

This is basically considered an essential process and essential energy to life by most Asian health practitioners, body workers, healers, etcetra, because they believe that this adaptive energy at the surface of our body is our first line of defense against the offensive forces of nature. This wei chi is protective energy that provides the energy of our skin to sweat or product goose bumps or to shiver when we shiver. These are all ways that our skin and our body releases energy or either using it as some sort of protective mechanism, or using it to adapt and deal with some kind of threat that is starting to creep in. This energy also controls the opening and closing of the pores.

If this energy becomes deficient, exhausted, blocked, things such as heat, cold, dampness and wind can easily penetrate through our skin, through our flesh and enter our tissues below, including our blood and our inner organs.  However, if our energy is strong and sufficient and flowing smoothly, our resistance will be formable and we can easily adapt to whatever environmental situations we might come in contact with, whether that’s the sick person in the office or the day that its cold outside and we forgot the jacket or the day we get caught outside in the rain, or whatever it might be, it can really help us to adapt to and deal with these kinds of threats.

Since astragalus also tones up the lungs, it helps our body generate an abundance of this free-flowing wei chi, thus fortifying our immune system and our defensive energy in the body.  This is also why astragalus has also been called “the great protector,” because by toning up both of these protective and adaptive functions, we can really build up our immune system and build up our defenses.