What is Medical Qigong? The term Medical qigong emerged at the beginning of the1930s and describes a modern variant of traditionell Chinese therapy. Medical qigong is a part of Chinese medicin and is used as a therapeutic treatment also named qigongtherapy. It is built on the knowledge of meridians, acupunkturpoints, energicenters, inner organs, the flow of energi and energitransformation in the body. The purpose of this method is to cure illnesses and prolong life. A lot of qigongtechnics and methods have been or are beeing adapted to medical qigong to eliminate illnesses. Most of them are based on knowledge of various oriental philosophies. Qigongtherapy consists of three parts.
- Diagnosis – the patient is diagnosed by means of a thorough examination in order to find symtoms and select suitable individuell qigongexercises. The diagnosis is important to secure the benefit of the treatment.
- Selftraining –means oriented qigongtraining on the recommendation of and in consultation with a qigongtherapeut. The recommended movements are not necesseraly limited to a certain part of the body.
- Fa gong – means balancing of energy, performed by a qigongtherapeut in order to strengthen qi and eliminate qidisturbances in the patient.
