Chinese Medicine: What Is Qi? (Episode 24)

Josh & Terry Summers

English - November 27, 2017 12:07 - 14 minutes - 23.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 127 ratings
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Qi is "perceived functionally, by what it does," is critical to remember. Entities in Chinese Medicine are almost unanimously "perceived functionally," that is, defined by what they do. We'll see this affirmed again and again when we look at the meridian system. Meridians are defined by what they do, functionally - the organ system - organs are defined by what they do, functionally - and the Vital Substances of the body - which again are defined by what they do, functionally for the whole organism.
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In this fifth episode of my introductory series on Traditional Chinese Medicine, I’ll explore the Chinese concept of Qi: What is Qi, how it functions in the body, and two broad patterns of Qi disharmony.

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