Medical Qigong is non-medicated health-building therapy through the physiological and psychological processes of exercises such as regulating body, breathing and mental activities, relaxing limbs, adjusting respiration, and stabilizing spirit consciousness, so as to regulate the balance of Yin and Yang in viscera. The effect of Qigong breathing exercise therapy is to enhance and replenish the original Qi of the human body, improve the quality of the body, self regulate and self control the life process by the guiding effect of consciousness, so as to coordinate the body to adapt to the environment, keep the stability of inner and outer environment, exert the inherent potential of the human body, and realize the effects of prevention and cure of diseases, while nourishing the body and prolonging life.
Qigong breathing exercise therapy has a therapeutic effect of strengthening vital Qi to eliminate pathogenic factors. First, Qigong breathing exercise therapy focuses on "regulation of mental activities" to reach the superior skill of “conversion of Qi into vitality” and “conversion of vitality into the original Qi” by regulating mental activities to achieve calmness, because the “Heart”(mental activities) in the “Office of Monarch” exerts the main domination effect on five organs so that the five organs are coordinated, and the regulation of mental activities removes the adverse effects of emotional factors so as to reach a therapeutic effect of “relieving Qi stagnancy in the liver”. Second, the long-term regulation of mental activities can lead Qi consciously, to reach the “Qi running after consciousness”, then the “Qi leading the blood flow” become available. Moreover, the smoothness of Qi and blood can mobilize the vital Qi of the human body, completely remove pathogenetic toxic Qi, and drive the meridian Qi in order to remove pathogenetic factors such as phlegm, dampness, blood stasis, stagnation; and mobilize the essential substances to nourish and moisten the damaged visceral tissues.
Qigong exercise emphasizes the “absorption of body fluid and conservation of essence Qi” to ensure the storage of essence Qi in the human body. Qigong exercise can play the role of heart governing mental activities and make the mental power brighter, in order to reach the best regulation and control of life movement and process, realize the “increasing vigorousness of vital Qi and gradual breakdown of pathogenic factors”, and then achieve the purpose of the therapy on the tumors.
