What exactly is Medical Qi Gong Healing

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 acupuncturist 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..