Qigong (Chee-gung) has swept America as the newest approach to healing and is on the rise again in China. This 2,500-year-old form of traditional Chinese medicine claims that the human body has channels (meridians) through which flows a substance known as Qi.
While internal Qigong practices relaxation and meditative techniques, external Qigong is an alleged form of energy or radiation emitted from the fingertips of "masters" and is thought to heal such maladies as hypertension, glaucoma, asthma, ulcers, tumors, and cancers. This book separates fact from folklore
Lin Zixin is retired editor-in-chief of China's Science and Technology Daily, Yu Li, China's "Amazing Randi," works in the Ministry of Internal Trade. Guo Zhengyi is deputy director and Shen Zhenyu is research director for China's Popular Science Institute. Zhano Honglin is director of the Qigong research department of China's Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Zhang Tongling is professor of psychiatry at Beijing Medical University.
Est. 135 pages ISBN 1-57392-232-3 Cloth
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