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  • Band-aiding gaps in energy patterns, 'tonifying' the energy's overall density and balancing the field that emanates from them are therapeutic methods used to manipulate forces and fields that stimulate a healing process.

    Dana Ullman: Energy Medicine: Futuristic Healing With Ancient Roots 2010

  • Formosa Neiji on spinal qigong and tonifying the organs.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Michael Turton 2009

  • Best done in the morning before showering, abhyanga improves blood and lymph circulation, eliminates muscle tension and fatigue, and has a tonifying influence on the immune system.

    Making Room for Mr. Right Robin 2009

  • Best done in the morning before showering, abhyanga improves blood and lymph circulation, eliminates muscle tension and fatigue, and has a tonifying influence on the immune system.

    Making Room for Mr. Right Robin 2009

  • Formosa Neiji on spinal qigong and tonifying the organs.

    Daily Links, Jan 8, 2009 Michael Turton 2009

  • That's a beginning, but it misses the authentic foundational wellness strategies of integrative care: balancing, tonifying, and helping the body to detoxify.

    Alison Rose Levy: Vineyard Journal: The Valor of John and Elizabeth Edwards 2008

  • Ancient Chinese medicine refers to this principle as “tonifying our ancestors,” meaning nourishing ourselves until the pool of our entire collective—past, present, and future—is improved by our own intention and attention to our own well-being.

    The Way of the Fertile Soul Randine Lewis 2007

  • Planetary formula number 39 Ginseng Elixir, tonifying both energy and blood, is the ideal formula for recovery from childbirth.

    THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

  • Sexually tonifying herbs include Chinese wolfberry, Korean ginseng, angelica root, foxglove, cinnamon and licorice.

    The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989

  • In such cases, men are advised to cultivate the skill of ‘soft entry’ along with strict continence of semen as physical therapy for restoring circulation to the sexual organs, tonifying the muscles, tendons, sphincters and other parts that control the sexual organs, and generating energy in the deficient vital parts.

    The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989

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