DEFENDING YOURSELF AGAINST EXTERNAL ATTACKS

DEFENDING YOURSELF AGAINST EXTERNAL ATTACKS

For Chinese medicine, the flu is considered an attack by an “external perverse energy”. These perverse energies are wind, cold, humidity, heat or a combination of several of them.

Influenza (Gan Mao) can thus be caused by an attack of Wind/Cold or Wind/Heat. This wind, after having penetrated the defensive energy layer (Wei Qi), will first circulate in the outermost layer of the body. If the attack is not repelled, it will then penetrate the deeper layers, generating the flu symptoms. These symptoms manifest the body’s struggle to rid itself of the invader.

By cultivating strong kidneys and good vital energy, the defensive energy will be more effective, and your body will defend itself better against the flu or recover from it more quickly

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