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Qigong
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Medical
Qigong
For thousands
of years, millions of people have benefited from Medical Qigong practices
and believed that improving the function of Qi (qi = energy) maintains
health and heals disease. It is believed that regular practice
of Medical qigong helps to cleanse the body of toxins, restore energy,
reduce anxiety and stress, and help individuals maintain a healthy
and active lifestyle. Qigong is said to be one of the most powerful
healing traditions ever developed in human history.
Most Western medical
practitioners, many practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine,
as well as the Chinese government view Medical qigong as a set of breathing
and movement exercises, with possible benefits to health through
stress reduction and exercise.
Medical qigong
treatment has been officially recognized as a standard medical
technique in Chinese hospitals since 1989. Medical qigong has been included
in the curriculum of major universities in China. After years
of debate, the Chinese government decided to officially manage
qigong through government regulation in 1996 and has also listed
qigong as part of their National Health Plan.
Dr. Yan Xin, a
doctor of both Western and Chinese medicine as well as founder
of Yan Xin Qigong School, suggests that in order for qigong to
be accepted by the modern world it must pass the test of scientific
study. Without such studies, Yan maintains that qigong will be
dismissed as "superstition". In the mid-1980s he and
others began systematic study of qigong in some research institutions
in China and U.S. Qigong appears to be a potent intervention to
prevent falls in elders, maintain joint mobility, and improve
balance.
The Qigong presented
here is developed throughout years of corporation between the
most experienced physiotherapists and well established Qigong
masters from around the world. It is medical Qigong that focuses
on the western way of explanations and is said to be the most
powerfull and healing method.
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