Medical Qi Gong Articles, one symptom at a time
What Chinese medicine and Western physiology each say about the same body — grouped by what brought you here, with the organ system named underneath.
Searching for a specific illness and finding nothing? Try the broader category instead — “auto immune” rather than “lupus”.
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If you’ve never read anything of mine before, these four explain the whole idea.
Because Qi Gong works with your body’s own electrical system — and that system runs everything.
The X-ray says it healed, but it still hurts. Why healing gets stuck, and how getting things flowing again helps your body finish the job.
The compounds your body already makes, and the conditions it needs in order to make them.
CPR uses no drugs and no equipment. The body revives itself — and that same ability is what Medical Qi Gong wakes up every day.
How the Body Works
FOUNDATIONS
12 articles
While you are pregnant, your body is the only world your baby has — and you can change the weather in it.
How CPR proves the body has a built-in pharmacy that keeps us alive — and how Medical Qi Gong draws on it.
Because Qi Gong works with your body’s own electrical system — and that system runs everything.
Qi Gong is called the art of effortless power — an 8km cliff hike put that to the test.
Your body generates its own electricity — and every doctor, nurse and dentist learned this on day one of medical school.
The same argument as the introduction, taken further into the physiology.
Two people can be the same age on paper and decades apart in how their bodies work. Here's why.
How the parasympathetic nervous system supports brain function, and what switches it on.
How Qi Gong influences epigenetics by regulating physiological stress, inflammation and gene expression.
Medical Qi Gong is the original somatic healing practice — developed over 4,000 years ago.
Medical Qi Gong activates your body’s natural electrical system to restore energy, balance and healing.
The compounds your body already makes, and the conditions it needs in order to make them.
Sleep & Energy
● WATER · KIDNEYS
3 articles
Why, According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Do We Wake Up Tired Even After a Full Night’s Sleep?
You don’t wake up tired because you didn’t sleep enough — your organs didn’t finish their work.
Why an hour costs some people a fortnight, and how to shorten it.
Being woken in the middle of the night can be unsettling, leaving the mind racing and the body tense.
Breathing, Allergies & Immunity
● METAL · LUNGS & LARGE INTESTINE
9 articles
When the body loses its rhythm, many things fall out of balance.
Psychodermatology studies the link between depression, skin conditions and the nervous system.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, allergies and depression share a common root in Lung energy.
The organ of grief and release, and why autumn asks something of it.
The oxygen gap — and how strategic exercise like Qi Gong restores digestion.
Digestion doesn’t begin on the plate.
In Chinese medicine, migraines aren’t just a head problem.
Strengthen your immune system for flu season from home, before winter arrives.
Most people accept allergies as normal, but they’re actually messages from the body.
Digestion, Weight & Cravings
● EARTH · SPLEEN & STOMACH
7 articles
If your iron stays low no matter how much you take, the question isn't how much goes in. It's how much your body can use.
Cravings aren’t a self-control problem.
Why diet changes don’t fix it when the organs — the body’s metabolic engine — are the problem.
The Gall Bladder shapes digestion, metabolism, weight balance and food sensitivities.
Why true strength comes from tendons, ligaments and a strong Spleen, not just muscles.
How Liver Qi stagnation causes constipation, and how Medical Qi Gong restores healthy movement.
How the harmony between your Liver and Spleen influences digestion, metabolism and weight.
Tension, Pain & Movement
● WOOD · LIVER & GALL BLADDER
8 articles
Why an old injury can keep hurting for years, and what it takes for the body to finish healing.
Struggling to stay consistent? The capacity to start and the capacity to sustain are not the same.
How Qi Gong supports healthy cholesterol by improving liver function and reducing stress.
How Medical Qi Gong reduces tremors, twitches, tics and other neurological symptoms.
Why tinnitus worsens in spring, through the lens of TCM and Liver energy.
How Medical Qi Gong for the Liver supports bone health and helps prevent osteoporosis.
Qi Gong for the liver supports fascia and fibrous connective tissue within the organs.
In Chinese Medicine the Liver drives every physical, mental and emotional action.
Hormones, Fertility & Bones
● WATER · KIDNEYS & BLADDER
6 articles
Fertility is not driven by hormones alone.
How Kidney, Spleen and Liver imbalances weaken bones — and how to strengthen them.
How Medical Qi Gong supports perimenopause by regulating hormones and improving digestion.
How Medical Qi Gong supports fertility treatments by easing side effects like bloating.
How Medical Qi Gong can naturally support fertility by restoring balance and nourishing the body.
The reserve the whole system draws on, and how it gets spent.
Through the Year
SEASONAL PRACTICE
5 articles
Why Late Summer is the best time to strengthen your Spleen with Medical Qi Gong.
How practising Qi Gong for Spring strengthens the Liver and prepares the body for summer.
The season of letting go, and the practice that goes with it.
How the five elements map onto the year, and why the practice changes with the season.
As spring begins to bloom, so does the rise of itchy eyes, runny noses and sneezing fits.
The Jewish Year
CHAGIM & JEWISH LIFE
6 articles
Elul asks a lot of the body — long davening, late Selichot, broken sleep.
When life changes quickly, digestion often struggles.
Qi Gong is not another therapy.
After 12 days in the bomb shelter, your body is still on high alert.
What a week of changed eating asks of the Spleen, and how to get ahead of it.
Moving to a new country challenges your immune system, digestion, sleep and emotional balance.
Qi Gong at Work
BY PROFESSION
6 articles
Creativity, focus and the physical cost of long screen hours.
Resilience and energy for people who spend theirs on everyone else.
Sustained concentration without the crash that usually follows it.
Focus, stress and energy through a season that doesn’t let up.
Clarity and resilience under deadline and difficult material.
What changes at work when the practice is already in place.