15/03/2020
How to protect us in these times..
The recommendation of my Qigong Master:
May Qi be with U!... 🌺❤️🙏
Dear Qigong Friends
As we all know that coronavirus (COVID-19) is considered pandemic and it will continue to spread for some time. There is no specific treatment in sight other than general recommendations for rest, fluids, nutrition, and symptomatic treatment of fever.
The best medicine though is the power of our own immune system, which may reduce the likelihood of getting sick, or even if you acquire the virus, immune boosters can help to reduce the severity and shorten the length of illness. Here are a few suggestions to share with you among our Qigong community:
1. Keep Qigong Practice Everyday
One of the best benefits of Qigong practice is to strength our Guardian Qi. Keep practicing Qigong in daily basis! It doesn't matter which one: Four Golden Wheels Exercise, 8 Cycles, 4 Cycles, Small Heavenly Circuit, or Yi Jin Jing. As long as you can bring your awareness to your own energy body everyday, you are optimizing your body’s natural defense capacities. Here are some of them for you to download free:
1. 8 Cycles:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7rzb5enssss0dr/Eight%20Cycles%20-%20Instructions.mp4?dl=0
2. 4 Cycles:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qlv5igl36x1rwzx/4%20Cycles%20in%20East%20Hill%20Farm.m4v?dl=0
Let's practice together and make our Circle of Cosmic Qi strong and healthy!
2. Supplements to Boost Immune Defense
Below are supplements recommended by my dear friends Richard Brown M.D. and Patricia Gerbarg M.D.
We want to share with you a list of immune boosters that we rely on and that may be of help to you and your families. We only recommend the brands listed below because they have been studied and shown to be effective and of good quality. If you have any serious health conditions or allergies, please consult your personal physician and read the contents of each supplement before taking. Also, follow recommendations for when to take these supplements. -- Dr. Brown and Dr. Gerbarg
▪ Kold-Kare (Immune Kare) from Kare-n-Herbs at Karenherbs.com. For prevention, Take 1 tab twice daily. If symptoms or exposure occur, take 1 tab 4 times daily.
▪ Respigard by Nature’s Nurse at Naturesnurse.com or Amazon. If symptoms or exposure occur, follow dosage directions on the bottle.
▪ Immune Senescence Protection from Life Extension Foundation. For prevention, take 2 daily right after eating breakfast (food prevents stomach upset).
▪ Bio-Strath available online from multiple companies. Follow dosage directions on bottle.
▪ Sambucus by Nature’s Way (iHerb.com). For prevention or if symptoms occur, follow dosage directions on bottle.
▪ Mushroom extracts: Maitake-D and Shiitake from the following companies: Mushroom Science, Mushroom Wisdom or Nature’s Way. Follow dosage directions on bottle.
3. Most Practical Advice
This is the best article of explanation and practical advice on how to do from Dr. James Robb. It maybe a bit long, but very useful!
What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic by James Robb, MD UC San Diego
Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from different animal sources.
The current projections for its expansion in the US are only probable, due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April.
Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will take. These are the same precautions I currently use during our influenza seasons, except for the mask and gloves.:
1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.
2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove.
3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip - do not grasp the handle with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.
4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts.
5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people have been.
6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home's entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other contaminated objects when you can't immediately wash your hands.
7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more!
What I have stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the US:
1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going shopping, using the gasoline pump, and all other outside activity when you come in contact with contaminated areas.
Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average - everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious.
The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.
2) Stock up now with disposable surgical masks and use them to prevent you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch our nose/mouth 90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this virus can infect you - it is lung-specific. The mask will not prevent the virus in a direct sneeze from getting into your nose or mouth - it is only to keep you from touching your nose or mouth.
3) Stock up now with hand sanitizers and latex/nitrile gloves (get the appropriate sizes for your family). The hand sanitizers must be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be effective.
4) Stock up now with zinc lozenges. These lozenges have been proven to be effective in blocking coronavirus (and most other viruses) from multiplying in your throat and nasopharynx. Use as directed several times each day when you begin to feel ANY "cold-like" symptoms beginning. It is best to lie down and let the lozenge dissolve in the back of your throat and nasopharynx. Cold-Eeze lozenges is one brand available, but there are other brands available.
I, as many others do, hope that this pandemic will be reasonably contained, BUT I personally do not think it will be. Humans have never seen this snake-associated virus before and have no internal defense against it. Tremendous worldwide efforts are being made to understand the molecular and clinical virology of this virus. Unbelievable molecular knowledge about the genomics, structure, and virulence of this virus has already been achieved. BUT, there will be NO drugs or vaccines available this year to protect us or limit the infection within us. Only symptomatic support is available.
I hope these personal thoughts will be helpful during this potentially catastrophic pandemic. You are welcome to share this email. Good luck to all of us!
James Robb, MD FCAP
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Wish you all well and safe!
Good Qi
Robert Peng
www.RobertPeng.com
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Qigong is an ancient Chinese healing art that uses breathing, movement, and visualization to cultivate Qi, or Universal Life Force. It has been used for more than 3,000 years to improve physical and emotional wellbeing, develop extraordinary healing powers, and harmonize the body, mind, and spirit.
