Most of us think that a cold is something that you get in the
winter.
You know those cold days- you get your feet wet, a chill goes
through your body and the next thing you know you got a
whopping cold that knocks you out for a week!

The Summer time doesn’t seem to be the cold season,
but low and behold I am seeing heards of people with summer
colds in my Holistic Practice of Acupuncture.

What the Heck is a Summer Cold anyway?
It can be just an allergy like hay fever, also known as rhinitis-
an allergy that gives you a number of unwanted symptoms,
similar to a cold
• Itchy nose, mouth, eyes, throat, skin, or any area
• Problems with smell
• Runny nose
• Sneezing
• Tearing eyes

These symptoms occur shortly after you come into contact
with the substance you are allergic to and they just don’t go
away until you get away from the allergens or you strengthen
your immune system.

The summer cold is a different creature, when we have a cold
the body goes through many changes.
A cold can come from one of many different types of viral
pathogens.

But remember a cold is a cleansing process to
Clear the Body of Excesses.

If you have been over drinking, overeating, and indulging to
excess, chances are you will get a cold or flu to flush out your
system

“A Natural Detox”.

In Chinese medicine grief and sadness is the emotion associated
with the lungs. The lungs open to the nose; this means that the lungs influence
all the sinuses, bronchial, air passageways, and the nose itself.
Colds often start when we are tired or under stress, sad or have
too much grief in our lives.

Symptoms of a Summer Cold:
· Runny nose
· Sore throat
· Watery eyes
· Headache
· Achy body
· Coughing
· Low energy
· Fever

The good news is the Summer Cold is usually gone within a week.

My Grandmother had many home brewed treatments to cure
a cold such as gargle with salt water for a sore throat.
Take 1 gram of Vitamin C every hour until you got the runs,
and suck on Zinc lozenger.
She claimed these were a sure cure for a cold.
My mother said.” When I was a child my mother would give us
a syrup consisting of a whole onion that was cooked slowly in sugar
water until it got syrupy and them she would make us drink it.”
I asked if it worked and mom said she forgot.

9 Ways To help prevent a cold:

*Wash your hands often

* Stay out of the wind

*Drink 8 to 10 ounces of clean water a day

* Avoid touching your face, especially the nose, mouth, and eye.

* Prevent the spreading of the virus by using paper cups.

* Clean doorknobs, light switches, telephones, remote controls,
and sinks.

*Use paper towels in the kitchen and bathroom for hand washing.

* Get 6 to 8 hours of sleep a night and when you have a cold take a
nap in the hottest part of the day.

• De- stress yourself, if you are stressed it weakens your immune
system and you are more likely to catch a cold

Stay tuned for part 2 of How to avoid a summer cold

I wish you the best in your Health,Wealth and Happiness

Dr Wu Dhi

PS if you are stressing out learn how to Turn your Stress into Power
www.turnstressintopower.com

Dr. Wu Dhi

This morning I was working out in the garden and I asked
myself “What’s the strongest medicine I can give to you in an
email.”I haven’t figured that out yet but here’s the start of it.

I want to start by giving you a few extra Qi Gong pointers by
email.

This will also be of assistance to all of you who practice Qi
Gong but have never worked out with the Miami group.

First let’s consider why Qi Gong is so important and remind
ourselves why Qi Gong is different than any other form of
exercise.

Qi Gong and the Recharging Qi Gong in particular is designed to
activate the flow of Qi in your body.

Just like in acupuncture, when the flow of Qi is returned toyour body

the flow of blood and oxygen is restored.The Recharging Qi Gong is a very active form of Qi Gong that
activates every part of your body.

When the flow of blood and Oxygen is restored all of the fluids
and tissues are restored faster and the ability for your body
to repair itself is optimized.

The better your body can repair itself the better your body can
heal and respond to stress.

The positive response to stress is greater Strength and Energy.

This is what it’s all about.

It’s a workout and a rewiring of the Qi at the same time. 

These nonlinear movements never cut the force of Qi or fold the
Qi back on itself like many exercises do.

Yes, some forms of movement and exercise can block the flow of
Qi and injure the body. A great number of my patients are very active people that
injure or cramp the energy flow in the body and eventually
produce some aliment or inexplicable pain in the body that
nobody else can resolve.

Many patients think I’m a miracle working after I plunk a few
acupuncture needles in them and the mystery pain vanishes but
the reality is very simple.

The Qi flow was blocked.Many times these very same patients will come back again and
again to take the kinks out of their Qi.

I don’t even have to ask, I know they haven’t been practicing
the prescriptive exercises I have given them.

The opposite is also true.

There are many people that I have never seen in my office that
have gotten the Recharging Qi Gong, looked at the table of
prescriptive exercises in the back of the book, looked up their
ailment, started practicing the exercise, and all miracles of
miracles the pain is gone.The proposition here is very simple.

Learn to open the flow of Qi in the body with movement and
meditation and the possibilities are limitless.

The exercises I have put in the Recharging Qi Gong are the
strongest medicine I can deliver and there’s only one place to
get it, here -> http://rechargingqigong.com .

Tomorrow I’m going to tell you about the importance of the
exercise “Warming the Channels” and why this exercise should
never be skipped.

Wishing you Health, Wealth and Happiness,

Dr. Wu Dhi

PS: Here in Miami it’s already getting dark by six and I’ve
had to put our weekly Qi Gong on the Beach class on hold until
I can find an indoor location or a weekend timeslot. Stay tuned.