Podcast 427: Tonic Herbal Formulas

Rehmannia Dean Thomas is a Taoist Tonic Herbalist in the 5000 year old Gate of Life lineage from China. Rehmannia focuses on Tonic herbs because they are generally considered safe and beneficial when used over prolonged periods of time.

RDT Herbs herbs are considered anti-aging and preventative, empowering the entire body mind and spirit. They are the superior class of Chinese herbs.

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Podcast 427: Tonic Herbal Formulas

MARTIN: Hello everyone, this is Martin Pytela for the Life Enthusiast Podcast, and today I have the pleasure of introducing to you Rehmannia Dean Thomas, the founder, and the chief herbalist at the RDT Herbs. We at Life Enthusiast have been promoting Exsula Superfood products for a long time, since 1989, and we have had Chinese herbs in them as components since the early days. We have decided to join forces with Rehmannia, and show you just how wonderful the Chinese herbalist approach can be. Anyway, I’m going to let Rehmannia explain to you his life story in his own words because it is super relevant. So here goes Rehmannia Dean Thomas!

REHMANNIA: Thanks, Martin, thanks for having me on, and thanks for your interest in my products and in my knowledge. I know you know a lot, too, so it’s always nice to talk with a comrade and spread this great information at such a really valuable and important time for humanity to understand. This will take us to a deeper understanding of holistic health, and to start to understand the values of alchemy, and going deeper, basically, with everything that we’re doing as the world becomes more and more perilous. I think that the tonic herbs are coming to us at an amazing time.

MARTIN: Yeah, actually, as you’re saying this, I’m thinking:  Oh, I just want to say so much about it! For example, since 1996, I have been extracting my own, and since about 2004, we have been selling ORMUS to the world, and there you are, actually selling it and making it part of your herbs! It’s super important to me because it’s not well known, it’s not well understood, and yet it makes a gigantic difference in how it impacts people. And the second thing is my love of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which this is not, but it’s a part of.

REHMANNIA: Yes.

MARTIN: In the sense that I have had the most health success, most repairs to my broken body because I got broken by mercury toxicity and many other things, the healings that came to me were largely from people who understood the Chinese method, the concepts. Anyway, here it goes, please tell us how you got here.

REHMANNIA: That’s a pretty crazy story, pretty convoluted. I’m actually from outside Louisville, Kentucky, a little town called Valley Station, so the fact that Chinese herbs came to me is kind of miraculous, but it had happened via a lot of factors. I met a Chinese woman when I was on tour playing music at 21, and she introduced me to all this, and we got married, and we went to China for our honeymoon. We happened to go into the Northern Manchurian province,