People who work in medical professions have to deal with more
or less severely ill fellow human beings on a daily basis.
The increased risk of infection and psychological stress that
can accompany this is interpreted by Chinese medicine -
according to its energetic explanatory model of physio-psychic
processes - as a concomitant of regular contact with sick
and/or used qi.
In interactive situations, e.g. the therapeutic treatment
situation, a process of balancing and equalizing the energies
of the persons involved - comparable to communicating vessels -
now takes place, a giving and taking of energy.
In the long run, this can have damaging effects on the health
of the therapist:
in giving he can spend his own "inheritance" of energy, his
Yuan-Qi, in taking the spent energy of his clients can become a
problem for himself.
Chinese medicine, which thinks in these energetic dimensions,
also knows on the same level ways to reduce the potentially
harmful effects of such influences: Exercises of Qigong, with
strengthening, discharging and energetically building effect.
In addition, it knows methods to develop the release of energy
in a targeted manner, in order to support others in this way.
The most famous personalities of Chinese medical history knew
about these connections, Qigong was historically always part of
their therapeutic practice: to strengthen their own health as
well as for the benefit of their patients.
