General Herbal Formulas for Supporting Internal Arts Practice

Honestly, I think it is best to not use anything other than diet and practice if you don’t have moderate to major issues. The food diet and mental diet are of utmost importance and if those are good, and you practice, you should be in good shape overall. On the milder side, some basics like moxibustion on a somewhat frequent basis can be helpful, and possibly mild tonic herbs like goji berries worked into the diet can be good.

Now that said, no one is perfectly healthy and everyone has an imbalance/pattern from a Chinese Medicine perspective. So the real answer is that it would depend on your overall diagnosis. If you tend towards yin deficiency, liu wei di huang wan, if you tend towards liver qi stagnation, xiao yao wan, if you tend towards spleen qi deficiency, bu zhong yi qi wan - those are the basics. But hard and fast rules are generally met with poor results in Chinese Medicine so work with what is presenting and that is the answer.