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Ayurvedic herbs are excellent energy-givers. In fact, rasayanas, or rejuvenators, also "build immunity, well-being, and vitality for the entire system," suggest Peter Anselmo and James S. Brooks, M.D., in Ayurvedic Secrets to Longevity and Total Health (1996).
Three Ayurvedic botanicals critical to energy and resistance to energy-sapping stress are: Ashwagandha, Sida cordifolia, and Coleus forskohl.
High-energy herbs, are those herbs which not only provide this resistance, protecting us from the ravages of external stress (such as the bombardment of: the sun's rays, air pollution, toxins in our environment, cold, heat, etc.) and internal stress (injury, disease, toxins in our foods, and the internal bombardment of excessive free radicals, for example), but protect us so well from this excessive stress that we are free to thrive and enjoy optimal health.
Hans Selye, M.D., Ph.D., in his Stress in Health and Disease (1976), not only provided clear insights into biological stress and things which cause stress (stressors), he surveyed the available literature, not surprisingly summarizing studies by I.I. Brekhmann, who, in writing about Siberian ginseng, a tonic herb from the Oriental...