Evidence and Mechanism of External Qi in Chinese Medicine

Abstract

Background:There are 2 kinds of Qi: Internal Qi is what circulates inside a human body while External Qi is what an experienced practitioner could emit and could be felt by a receiver. The healer's body will emit electromagnetic waves of low oscillating frequency from 0.

Medicina Tradicional Complementar e Integrativa: desafios para construir um modelo de avaliação do cuidado

“…It considers that each individual has not only their own constitution and psychosocial circumstances but also different reactions to the symptoms, diseases and treatments. Therefore, people with the same disease can receive different care 1 , as in the Chinese medicine 5,13,32 or in the homeopathy 29,33 ; and obtain responses or react distinctively to each intervention.…”

“…Illness is not only the result of biological and biochemical imbalances but the way the individuals position themselves and interact with their context, how they relate to themselves and to the illness. In this sense, the disease understood as a natural process of evolution that can be seen as an imbalance of vital breaths in the Chinese rationality 13,32 , of the vital dynamics in homeopathic rationality 33 , imbalance of Prana in the Ayurvedic rationality or energy polarization in the floral therapy. The imbalances and disharmonies reflect the third dimension: the complexity of care, which is not confined to a specific disease, but to the process of illness.…”

“…The fourth dimension concerns the process of care that is relational and interactive, built at each encounter between the user and the health professional. Its effects are evaluated during the process and both the diagnosis and the therapeutic objectives can be reformulated and reassessed, as in the Chinese medicine 13 and in the homeopathy [32][33][34] , among others, since the TCIM professional tends to take into account the demands of the user. It contemplates a professional action with a participatory attitude of those who are being taken care of.…”

“…Thus, considering the care taken at TCIM, its evaluation should take into account the following aspects: a) the interventions in the TCIM share some intrinsic dimensions, deriving from the vital paradigm, despite their diversity 13,32 ; b) care can be defined as practice 19,20 because it involves collective and individual aspects aimed at interaction, dialogue and experiences exchange between the health professional and the user. It is built taking into account the technical knowledge, the living experiences, and the understanding from different medical rationalities; c) care has a modus operandi in understanding the process of illness and a unique interaction with the resources of biomedicine, as it seeks to integrate physical symptoms, emotional aspects and the context of life, without necessarily eliminating the biomedicine care strategies.…”

Clinical Studies of Biofield Therapies: Summary, Methodological Challenges, and Recommendations

“…A key hindrance to understanding potential mechanisms of biofield therapies is the absence of a reliable measure of the purported biofield emanations from the practitioners. While there have been a few reports regarding emanations from certain practitioners, 54 – 56 creating a systematic method to examine such bioenergetic signals is a crucial step to better understand the physiological basis of biofield therapy. The development of systematic methods examining bioenergetic signals from practitioners may help us better understand, for example, whether the efficacy of the healing interaction is directly proportionate to the strength of the biofield emanation, to a particular pattern of biofield emanation, or whether there are other factors apart from or in addition to bioenergetic signaling that significantly contribute to the outcomes of the practitioner/client encounter.…”