On a recent Oprah Show...
...Dr. Mehmet Oz, NY surgeon and health care advocate, sited energy medicine as the
medicine of the future. “We’re beginning now to understand things that we know in our hearts are true but we
could never measure. As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize
that the next big frontier in medicine is energy medicine.” Medical Qi Gong
Medical Qigong is an ancient method of maintaining health and promoting longevity as well as preventing
and treating disease. In the word "Qigong" - "Qi" is translated to mean "Life Force Energy". "Gong" means
"cultivation" or "acquired skill through practice". When Life Force Energy is properly cultivated in the body we
are able to remain in good health, physically, mentally and emotionally.
Medical Qigong is one of the oldest branches of Chinese medicine, predating acupuncture by thousands of years.
Today, there are hundreds of medical Qigong hospitals and clinics worldwide, treating dozens of ailments such as
cancer, paralysis, asthma, migraines, stress and depression, anxiety, muscular atrophy, hypertension, insomnia,
diabetes, immune deficiency disorders and pain syndromes.
Widely understood in China but little known in the West, medical qi gong is a modality of
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Medical qi gong is a way of affecting and directing qi, or the life force, for
medical benefit. Rather than using needles, herbs, or massage, medical qi gong relies on the ability to direct qi
with the mind, the hands, or a ritual object, but without necessarily touching the body. Like its better known
counterparts acupuncture and herbal medicine, medical qi gong requires thorough knowledge of TCM scientific theory.
A medical qi gong practitioner should be at least as well-trained as an acupuncture's or herbalist. To develop
skill with medical qi gong, a practitioner needs to be highly disciplined, with a very focused mind similar to that
of a well-seasoned mediator. To practice medicine as subtle as medical qi gong, a practitioner must have unusual
abilities of subtle perception..
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