Hi. I would first like to apologize because I have been starting threads and then abandoning them. This is usually because my understanding of qigong increases with practice and so I do not need to follow the topic anymore. Sometimes it is because I switch from the practice I was doing to investigate another. (I work with a book called Qigong Empowerment mainly, doing the medical exercises for the organs.)
My new question is this. I seem to have very poor circulation in my legs. (Actually, I think this is due to use of too many artificial sweeteners, like stevia, which I use in my tea. I know this is bad, and some of them are very bad, but I tend to develop habits like this when under great stress, as I am now and suspect I will be in the foreseeable future.) The lowest parts of my legs--not the feet, but like the ankles and half-way up to the knee--have some swelling and like rashes as though I had been walking through poison ivy. It has been coming and going. I am asking to be referred to a qigong practice or book to increase circulation in the legs; any such practice should quell my desire for sweetened tea also. Any other insights from Chinese medicine, such as herbs that will help, would be appreciated also.
Thanks!