Get your fire back and feel strong and potent

What you've just stepped into is a lineage of herbalism that goes back thousands of years, and it looks at your health very differently to the modern approach. Rather than starting with a symptom and trying to make it go away, this tradition starts with the treasure in your body that's calling out to be cultivated. Tend to that, and health has a place to radiate out from.

You've been drawn to one of these treasures as your starting point. It's not a label and it's not a diagnosis, it's simply the place we begin to build from. Here's what the old Taoist herbalists understood about it.

In the Taoist tradition, what you're reaching for has a name.

Yang Jing, the spark

Yang Jing is the pilot light that sits within your reserves. It's the warmth, drive and potency that turns potential into action, and it's what gives you that get-up-and-go and a sense of strength in your body and libido. It gets drained by burnout, cold and stagnant living, chronic exhaustion, and simply pushing past empty for too long.

When it's lit again, you feel warm, potent and motivated. Your willpower comes back without needing to force it, along with a strength and confidence that's physical rather than just mental. Traditionally this is Kidney Yang, the fire of the lower back and the reproductive system. In Western terms think of vitality, healthy hormones, circulation and stamina.

Herbs traditionally reached for here: deer antler, eucommia, cistanche, cordyceps.

Try exploring Deer AntlerTry exploring Eucommia

Wherever you've started, the treasures are all connected, and as one is tended the others tend to follow. Head back to the email for the rest, and I'll keep building on this with you from here.

Mase

Curious about the other treasures? Read about all five here.