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Q: What is qigong? A: Qi means energy and gong means cultivating. Qigong (also written as Qi Gong, Chi Kung, chi kung) is a way to cultivate your energy to improve your health.
Q: What is medical qigong? A: Medical qigong is a complete system of medicine. It addresses root causes of symptoms or disease, and treats the patient as a whole.
Q: How could qigong help me? What would I learn? A: Note: depending on what workshops you take or the nature of your private session with Dr. Wang, you may learn all or only some of the following. How to improve your health and vitality thorugh: 1. very simple nonstrenuous movements 2. special breathing techniques such as learning to breathe fat away to loose weight 3. increasing and using mental focus 4. self massage to stimulate/increase circulation to vital organs and to the body in general 5. Acupressure: may involve using steady pressure, tapping or other ways of contacting certain points of the body, to improve functioning of particular organs or of general systems such as our lymph system. 5. You also may receive one or more of Dr. Wang's award winning herbal solutions. She won two awards for Outstanding Medical Products. Dr. Wang is respected internationally for her success in treating skin problem such as psoriasis and eczema in children and eczema in adults. Western doctors, alterative and other Chinese doctors are especially impressed with her success with psoriasis which rarely responds to other treatment approaches. She also uses herbal solutions to help people with baldness, hair loss 7. Combination of any of the above plus other approaches depending on what is being addressed.
Q: How does Dr. Wang know over 200 types of medical qigong? A: The Chinese government was very concerned about the lose of medical qigong which is based on thousands of years of knowledge and experience. Dr. Wang was selected by the Chinese government to interview and study with qigong masters to preserve this knowledge. She compiled an encyclopedia of medical qigong so this information could continue to help people in the present and future.
Q: I am a little confused about the relationship between Western and Eastern medicine. Can you clarify? A: Western medicine has been traditionally focused on a disease model with an emphasis on the use of drugs and surgery to correct a health problem. Eastern medicine is focused on a health model, on how well our bodies are functioning. So for example it can take a long time before a health problem develops. However, Chinese doctors can diagnosis whether or in what ways our bodies and not functioning well. By improving how our body functions, by strengthening our weak organs and improving the flow of energy and blood /oxygen circulation we can become healthier. This makes us less susceptible to illness. There is a recent recognition by Western medicine of the benefits offered by Eastern medicine. Some hospitals and clinics now offer “complementary” “alternative medicine” in addition to Western medicine. In Holland Dr. Wang is well known and has a good relationship with Western doctors. Western doctors and hospitals have referred patients to her recognizing her success in areas where Western Medicine has not been successful. Traditional Chinese Medicine and medical qigong can treat some problems more successfully and in a less intrusive fashion than Western medicine. Also Chinese Traditional Medicine and Medical Qigong can help to maximize health. Dr. Wang respects Western medicine for what it does well and refers pts to Western medical doctors when appropriate.
Q: How old is qigong? A: The monks and sages taught qigong to the Chinese Emperors over 5000 years ago!
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