good herb/supplements for anxiety and stress?!

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Hello, I would like to introduce you some treatments of stress, anxiety and panic attacks with acupuncture and Chinese herbs. Hope it helps.

Chinese Medicine recognizes that a variety of causes and conditions continually arise in life which shift our energy. Because of these shifts we may not feel happy all the time, nor are we expected to according to the Chinese medical perspective. In fact, the person in optimal health will experience the full range of emotions, but without getting stuck in any one emotional state.

Stress, Anxiety & Emotions

Emotions only cause imbalance if they are extreme, or if the patient holds on to them for long periods of time. If a person's body experiences symptoms of imbalance, it means the energy flow is either blocked, deficient, or out of balance. Both physical and emotional wellness depends on a smooth flow of energy throughout the body. Acupuncture and Chinese herbs balance energy by harmonizing the flow the energy, the result of which is smooth flow.

One way to achieve emotional balance is through treatment based on the Chinese Five Element system. Each of the five systems is interrelated, and the health of each one depends on balance between all of them. The five elements are fire, water, wood, metal and earth. Within the elemental relationships, each emotion relates to a specific organ. The five emotions are joy which affects the heart energy, fear/fright which affects the kidney energy, sadness/grief which affect the lung energy, anger/frustration which affects the liver energy, and worry/over-thinking which affects the spleen energy.

Stress, Anxiety & Pain

Physically, stress has several effects on the body. The main problem it causes is stuck or blocked energy, also known as stagnation. When symptoms appear, it signals that energy in one or more pathway is blocked. Some symptoms of qi stagnation are neck and back pain, fatigue, PMS, menstrual cramps or infertility. Over time symptoms become more severe and spread to other systems in the body. Treatment with acupuncture and Chinese Herbs will resolve the cause of energetic disharmony to heal the physical symptoms and prevent future disease.

At-Home Stress Relief

To "wash" your body and mind clean of stress and less than desirable experiences, emotions and events, try the following tips to help bring harmony back to your physical and emotional self, by smoothing out energy flow:

Sitting in a comfortable position, close your eyes and visualize sitting by stream of water flowing gently by. When thoughts come into your head, they are part of the stream, just flowing by you. Allow yourself to consider the thought and then let it go on its way down the stream, not getting caught or lingering too long in your mind.

Breathe slowly and deeply. On the inhale, fill your lungs, chest, and belly completely with fresh clean air. On the exhale, release out all the air, along with the tension and built up thoughts and stresses from the day. Oxygen will circulate throughout the lungs and entire body, opening clogged areas and releasing tension from your mind and muscles. Many times during the day we don't realize how shallowly we have been breathing.

Firmly brush your limbs off, from the trunk of your body outwards. Start at the shoulders and brush out to fingertips, and past them, as if brushing a thick dust off each sleeve. Then, sitting with your legs straight out in front of you, start at the hips and brush all the way down to feet. Energetically, this releases negative or stagnated energy, and refreshes the natural balance of the body, enhancing circulation and washing impurities out of body and mind.

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you are better trying acupuncture from a registered professional practitioner. it really does work and will not only alleviate your anxiety from stress, but will improve your energy significantly.
i treat a lot of patients with similar problems and they do really well, but you have to commit to at least 7 sessions and a minimum of 2 sessions a week. usually people with very bad anxiety and stress do opt for more treatments and reduce the frequency as they improve and get to a point where they dont need any more. its entirely up to the patient when they feel further treatments are not required.
and it shouldnt hurt.
good luck

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There are many good herbs for anxiety including 5-HTP, GABA, L-Theanine, Ashwagandha, and Rhodiola ROsea. You can try them individually or just get a pre-made supplement combo of several. I use the Panicyl brand supplement. Works great in my case. Hope this helps.

personal experience
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StJW is not for anxiety, but for depression. No wonder you didn't like it. Dabblers (other commentors) seem to think the 2 are interchangeable, but they are not. StJW works on serotonin and anxiety issues are usually dopamine related.

For that, try Vitex Agnus-castus (Chaste berry - get the whole seed ONLY! The pills are worthless. Make a tea from the seeds, very tasty.), kava tincture, or Velvet bean (mucuna pruriens).

Sorry to hear about your stress in your life.
Try camomile tea and try meditation.
Make changes in your life if you can.
I have stress too.
I do acupuncture for it it works great for me.

Have you ever tried St Johns warts? there is that and other things on the market, look in Wal marts supplement section, and read on the bottles, they don`t cost much and do help you.

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