What is the relationship between Chinese medicine and qigong?
The word Qigong originated from "Dao Qi Gong Cheng" in Xu Xun's Ling Jian Zi in Jin Dynasty. Primitive Qigong appeared in the form of "dance". For example, "Lu Chunqiu Ancient Music" records: "At the beginning of the Tao and Tang Dynasties, the yin stagnated, the waterways were blocked, the people were stagnant, and the bones and muscles could not shrink, so they pretended to dance to announce it." Qigong, as a scientific medical care method, plays a role of psychosomatic adjustment through a special exercise method when the consciousness is in a special state of Qigong, which seems to be asleep but not awake. Different from general exercise, qigong exercise has many characteristics, such as relaxing nature, combining static and dynamic, coordinating stretching, being motionless and static, etc. The dynamics with these characteristics often give people beautiful artistic enjoyment. The exercisers follow their ideas, feeling that they sometimes spread their wings like Dapeng, sometimes like dragons playing in the water, sometimes like peacocks, and sometimes like wild horses. They are completely immersed and intoxicated in the feeling of extreme comfort and beauty.
Qigong is an important part of Chinese medicine. Guided by the basic theory of Chinese medicine, the meridian system inside the human body is the channel of "Qi". The smoothness of "Qi" can be regulated by psychological-physiological-morphological reaction. It has long been proved that people's psychological activities can effectively affect their physiological functions. The research of psychophysiology and physiological immunology also proves that human beings can change their physiological and pathological state through self-control and self-regulation, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.