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Hmm...I take the following herbal supplements and vitamins pretty much daily: Red Chinese/Panax Ginseng Eleuthero/Siberian Ginseng Gingko Biloba Vitamin D Vitamin B Damiana tea I've had problems with chronic fatigue (at the worst point, before I took the supplements, I'd fall asleep every two or three hours) ongoing for several years, coinciding with psychiatric treatment (which I'm getting out of ASAP; bad experience altogether); apparently I enter dream sleep at an abnormally high rate and that stops me from getting proper rest. But the ginseng helps with fatigue and staying awake and the damiana gives me a slight general motivational boost. Reading everyone else's posts is inspiring me to do away with the other unhealthy stuff I consume. Too much caffeine and processed junk, I think, which doesn't help things either. I've also got a ton of other herbs I keep on hand for other things, but the above's my daily regimen.

Thanks for the welcome! Yeah, it wasn't that much fun. But sometimes the vast nothing encroaches. My brain needed a reboot.

I'm new; not really new to Taoism, though I'm newly returning to it after a life-inflicted fun bout of nihilism, I've decided to get back into Taoist practice. For lo, my body has grown soft and pudgy, and I used to be in athletic shape (among other things). I'm trying to teach myself Qi Gong and then I want to get back into martial arts (must...do...Jeet Kune Do...) and meditation. I've also decided to resume reading the TTC a million billion times all over again. Apart from that uhhh...hi!