 What are the best Chinese herbs for a mental focus clarity and brain fog? It seems like these new tropics these supplements these powders these herbs to help you perform at a higher level or all the rage these days But in this video, I want to both present on some Chinese herbs that can help with mental focus and clarity as well as the big picture philosophy of how would I treat that clinically because it's probably not what you're thinking Hey, it's Alex Hain author of the health book master the day and I've included the first link beneath this video is for a Free guide on 5 d of the habits that can help you add 10 years to your life with Chinese medicine It's this case study of a guy named Li Qingyun who lived to be over a hundred with these five Taoist habits So you can check it out right beneath this video Let's first tackle this idea of mental focus and mental clarity in terms of the macro Right why do people not have the mental focus and the mental clarity that they want one of the things that I found in my Own life as well as clinically seeing patients is that it's different for every person, right? There are general big buckets that we tend to fall into but it really is about number one Finding the chink in your armor I've talked about this before when I talked about the videos on the Chi dynamic the energy dynamic each Person the way they are uniquely genetically made we each have a genetic weakness for me I've always had lifelong digestive problems, and I've been very thin That's just the luck of the draw for other people It's asthma and for others It's a skin condition or psoriasis or they struggle with being overweight even though they work hard at it The first thing is to understand why that's not Natural why it's not naturally happening because if you think about it Babies are born with the ability to eat poop sleep and think no problem Nature wants you to be well and more often than not there's a barrier to the wellness that's stopping it So I'll give you three examples of people whose chief complaint was brain fog Not thinking clearly just that was their main thing They wanted to work on for one guy the problem was that he had digestive problems and so by focusing on His constipation pattern his bloating his indigestion by fixing that the mental clarity came back That was the chink in his armor for another woman her main problem was with insomnia And everyone knows the feeling of not sleeping well for a long time and therefore not thinking well But for her we treated the blocks that were causing her insomnia And then after that her mental focus and clarity came back for a lot of people the block is gonna be something very different But if I had to choose one it would probably be persons digestion I mean in Chinese medicine the spleen or pancreas the dominant emotion That's the pathological emotion. I guess you could say is overthinking or over ruminating So there are formulas in Chinese medicine that are historically famous for thousands of years as the student formulas That when you're studying five or ten hours a day your digestion gets impaired And that's the thing that can lead to the foggy thinking the insomnia the anxiety the depression So the first is figure out where the chink is in your armor now to build off of that Mental clarity and mental focus is often the secondary effect of something else not working well So this is building off of what I just said about find the big chink in your armor Find what's not working well because the thing is if you try to chase the individual symptom You can be chasing those things for years And not getting the results that you want but when you look at the interconnected pieces That can often give key insights into what's going on So that's why it's not so easy to just say take these six herbs for mental focus and for mental clarity Because take these six herbs for what that's kind of how like a biomedical physician would practice Or a lot of natural medicine practitioners just say this herb is for mental focus That's not Chinese medicine because it's about treating a pattern and treating something. That's more inclusive of the whole person So it doesn't seem logical But that's why you can treat a person's digestion Which you wouldn't think has to do with their head if you just if you don't have much medical knowledge But that can be the most effective thing for treating their mental locuity It can be the most important thing for treating their brain fog their inability to have a good memory Their anxiety or depression frequently treating it through the gut is one of the most effective things So just remembering that it's a secondary effect So what is the main thing that needs to be worked on and based that on other symptoms and other patterns So for example, we do have herbs like fooling, which is poria It's just a kind of fungus that grows on the ground. We have herbs like linger Reishi mushroom, which are used in like insomnia anxiety patterns We have herbs like Yuan Zhi polygala, which is also used for psycho emotional problems but all of these again by themselves, I wouldn't recommend a person to take and I wouldn't magically give someone that just because they say, you know I'm trying I want better thinking and less brain fog It would have to be treating the pattern and that's what's often so deceptive You can treat something that seems unrelated But it fixes that because it's about the big picture pattern and not thinking linearly like a physician would so in terms of an action Step here or a ritual. I would say to try to find that lead domino in your life Now, maybe if this is a chronic issue, you've developed some ideas or some theories You've realized that there may be a link between what you eat and that feeling of brain fog Maybe for someone it's related to their menses and it's a certain time during their cycle that that starts creeping up along with migraines or Pain and maybe for another person. It's something completely unrelated altogether But to look for the big domino the main factor that pulls together all the puzzle pieces right so that headache and being agitated and Sweating too easily putting all those pieces together rather than looking at them as these separate parts realizing that that brain fog that just foggy thinking is Inexorably it has to be connected to the other pieces in your body So to look for where those weird symptoms Actually may be related That's gonna give the biggest insight and the biggest clue to get back to that state of wellness again So I hope that helps again Maybe that's a super Disatisfactory video saying basically nothing about the herbs that can help but I genuinely don't use them that way and the great mentors I've had rarely just jump to an herb for a symptom because it's usually not that simple and it doesn't pan out that well clinically So look for the pieces that connect the various parts and that'll give you more insight into how to get the results that you want Again check out the first link below this video That's on leeching Yun's five daily rituals had ten years to life with traditional Chinese medicine And then check out my last two related videos right here