tonifying

Verb

tonify (third-person singular simple present tonifies, present participle tonifying, simple past and past participle tonified)

1. (Chinese, traditional) To increase the available energy of
   • In two-meridian problems, for example Lung deficiency, where the Spleen would also be deficient, tonify LU-9 or LU-7 and SP-3 or SP-5.1983, Kiiko Matsumoto, Stephen Birch, Five Elements and Ten Stems, →ISBN, page 172
2. (broadly) To invigorate; to have a restorative effect on.
   • Patients of this description derive a marvellous amount of benefit from hydrotherapy, and, when it can be had, from maritime hydrotherapy : this treatment tonifies their whole system, and enables them to resist variations of temperature, without contracting the intestinal catarrh from which, under...1871, The New Sydenham Society, page 113
3. To strengthen; to tone.
   • This maybe important when these muscles need to be tonified, especially if the thoracic spine has a tendency to bend over slightly, or if the ribs are usually in a position that is too closed.2006, Anatomy of Breathing, page 145