The need for keeping up treatment

[Guest guest]

Long-time readers know that I suffer from Kidney Yang Deficiency. I got to

the point this spring that I was feeling so good that I stopped taking a lot

of my supplements. By summer I had stopping taking everying except for

magnesium. I skipped that a lot of days. Consequently, when it turned

drier here, I came down with the first cold I've had in years. (I definitely

should have stayed on the astragalus which supplements Protective Qi. And I

should have used a humidifier when it turned so dry.)

 

Anyway, although I recovered fairly quickly from the cold, I began to lose

ground in other ways. It was a gradual process. In between it being so

gradual and my wanting to be in denial, I got to the point where I was

having to sleep a lot once again. (This can be a symptom of Yang

Deficiency.) It also became harder and harder for me to do things. What

energy I had I was using making repairs to the house. A lot of days I

didn't feel like doing anything. As I said, I slept a lot.

 

I finally went back on the supplements. I'm starting to improve - less need

for sleep, more energy and alertness when I am awake, sensitivity to cold

decreasing, etc. But it is taking some time to build back up.

 

During the summer I had the Yang energy of summer helping me out. But as it

turned drier and then cooler here, I no longer had that support from the

environment. And what was happening to me sneaked up on me. Kidney Yang

Deficiency - by its very nature of slowing one down mentally as well as

physically - can do that to a person.

 

In addition to feeling so good, another reason I stopped with some of the

herbs was they were too warming back during the spring. What I should have

done was either to cut the dose and take them only occasionally or start

back as soon as it got drier here. But I not only cut out the herbs with

warm energy; I cut out everything except for the magnesium because I was

feeling so good. I should have been more mindful.

 

I've suffered from Kidney Yang Deficiency for years. I probably was Kidney

Yang Deficient as a child because I can remember hating cold weather and

having problems warming up even back then. In any event, when a person has

suffered from a condition such as Kidney Yang Deficiency for many years, the

person may need to stay on Yang tonic herbs forever. Or at least be

prepared to start back on them at a certain point in the year. Kidney Yang

Deficiency by its nature can sneak up on a person.

 

Victoria

 

 

 

 

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