Qigong Medicine for Springtime Allergies

Spring is the season where everything is rising up.

According to Chinese Medicine, this can unfortunately mean that energy rises to our nose and eyes, causing sneezing and itching!

The good news is that many people have found relief through regulating the main meridians associated with this spring season - the Liver and Gall Bladder meridian!

Medical Qigong proposes that we need to be in harmony with the energetic cycles of the seasons - in spring energy is rising up.  We need to both de-repress our life-force, allowing it to rise appropriately, but we also need to make sure it doesn't rise too much.  

In the practice video above you can follow along with three excerpts from the 'Qigong for the Spring Season' mini course:

• Self-Massage for Gall Bladder 21 acupoint
  • helps dispel "wind" - the irritating energy that "invades" according to Chinese medicine, and causes allergic reactions
• Rubbing down the Gall Bladder meridian
  • said to help direct energy away from the head to relieve eye-strain, headaches, and sneezing (and irritability too!)
• Self-Massage for Liv 3 acupoint
  • helps dredge the liver meridian and support the downward movement of the Qi

The metaphor of the springtime's upward energy is that we should be like a healthy tree or plant - we grow upward, but we do so from our deep roots!

Give the practice a try and let me know how it feels!