Contemporary developments in Western medicine are concerned
with so called energy medicine, however in China Qi Gong
(energy work) has been used to prevent and cure disease for
thousands of years. Recent research has begun to validate the
therapeutic efficiency of this approach to health and healing.
This unit extends the introductory concepts to do with Qi Gong
introduced in CM Health Enhancement by way of expanding on
both the historical and theoretical concepts of Qi Gong as it
applies to health maintenance. As well as this important concept,
this unit will also look at the development of some more specific
Qi Gong regimes to treat specific disease states.