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Improve Your Sex Life With Healing Foods and Chinese Herbs

In the Chinese medicine system, healing foods are often integrated into the daily diet to help increase the vitality and energy, necessary for creating a healthy sex life.

Certain foods help to nourish the energy of the kidneys, associated with with our sexual energy and our reproductive organs. Thus, when we nourish the kidneys, we improve and support a healthy sex life.

The kidneys are also associated with will, perseverance and endurance, qualities which enable us to create nourishing relationships and emotional connections that enhance our sexual interactions.

These foods help to boost the energy of the kidney:

Strawberry, walnuts, deep root vegetables such as yam, oysters, kidney beans, chestnut, clam, cod, hiziki seaweed, and pumpkin. It is also important to nourish the yin (which includes blood, bodily fluids, and hormones).

Building our blood and hormones (known as yin in the Chinese medicine system) also plays a role in helping us to achieve healthy states of sexual arousal.

These foods nourish yin:

Asparagus, cantaloupe, duck, egg, octopus, oyster, water chestnut, turnip, and raspberry.

Foods that stimulate and invigorate the qi (energy) also contribute to expressing passion and sensuous love:

Almonds, cardamom, shitake mushroom, orange, tangerine, and white beans.

Often times people will take Chinese herbs to nourish the sexual energy of the kidneys. However, taking herbs such as ginseng, astragalas, and dang gui in isolation is not recommended and can lead to imbalances with other internal organs.

Instead, a combination of herbs in formula form can help increase sexuality while also promoting overall health.

My teacher and mentor, master herbalist John Fung, recommends the following herbs combined in a formula to strengthen
the kidneys, blood, qi (energy), and yang (the fire aspects of our energy that move energy) to improve virility.

1) Kidneys
Xu Duan
Du Zhong
Qian Shi
Rou Cong Rong

2) Blood
Chuan Xiong
Dang Gui
Shu Di Huang

3) The Qi
Huang Qi
Du Huo
Gou Ji

4) The Yang
Suo Yang
Xian Ling Pi
Ba Ji Tian

As John Fung states, "Chinese herbs cannot deliver the mechanical performance of Viagra and the likes. Furthermore, they don't give you the expected effect when you take them a few hours beforehand. Being a product of nature, they help you build up the potency at the rate your body can handle (not what your mind wants). "

By incorporating nourishing foods and balanced herb formulas, you can improve your sex life and create a level of intimate vibrancy that comes from being a internal level of balance and harmony.

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