PART THREE:Chinese Qigong Acupressure Therapy
Healing Application and Contraindications of Qigong Acupressure Therapy
Healing Applications
Common Diseases:
Surgical diseases: diseases of shoulder, elbow, wrist, phalangeal joints, cervical spondylosis, stiff neck, diseases of lower back, muscular sprain of lower back, prolapse of lumbar vertebral disc, sciatica neuralgia, soft tissue injury of buttocks, and injury of iliosacral joint.
Internal diseases: headaches, stomachaches, neurasthenia, neurogenic vomiting, hiccups, hydrocephalus, hysteria, infantile indigestion, incontinence of urine in children, impotence, nocturnal emission, myopia, dysmenorrhea, acute gastroenteritis, heat stroke and syncope.
Complicated diseases: cerebral hemiplegia, paraplegia, sequelae of encephalitis, polyneuritis, Bell’s palsy, cerebral contusion and injury of sciatic nerve.
Other diseases: brain tumors, cancer of the intestine, pulmonary fibrosis and qigong psychoneurosis.
Contraindications:
Acute diseases: acute stages of inflammation, acute abdomen, febrile and infectious diseases.
Serious diseases: severe hypertension, heart disease and late stages of cancer.
Hemorrhagic diseases: hemophilia, allergic purpura and thrombocytopenic purpura.
Skin diseases: severe skin diseases.
Times and Courses of Qigong Acupressure Therapy
In general, qigong acupressure may be applied once a day. A routine therapeutic course includes 6-18 treatments. In patients with mild diseases and short clinical course, a therapeutic course may contain 6-24 treatments. In chronic patients, a therapeutic course may last for 1-3 months, and in paraplegic patients, 3-6 months. The acupressure treatment may be discontinued, if the patient’s health improves enough. In order to increase the therapeutic effect, it is best if patients complete the entire therapeutic course.
The chronometric (time-related) phenomenon described in traditional medicine is quite similar to the biological clock in modern medicine and it is usually used to explain the time-related circulation of qi through the meridian system. Because the qigong acupressure therapy is applied at the acupoints of the meridians, it is of course closely relate to flow of qi through the meridian and the qigong acupressure practioners may choose an adequate time to treat the patient. For example, at noon (11-13 o’clock), i.e. Wu o’clock in Chinese chronometry, qi is flowing through the Heart Meridian, it is the best time to treat patients with heart diseases by qigong acupressure therapy. The time table of qi circulation in the meridian system is shown as follows:
|
Chinese Clock |
Western Clock |
Meridian |
|
Zi |
23-1 |
Gallbladder |
|
Chou |
1-3 |
Liver |
|
Yin |
3-5 |
Lung |
|
Mao |
5-7 |
Large intestine |
|
Chen |
7-9 |
Stomach |
|
Si |
9-11 |
Spleen |
|
Wu |
11-13 |
Heart |
|
Wei |
13-15 |
Small intestine |
|
Shen |
15-17 |
Urinary bladder |
|
You |
17-19 |
Kidney |
|
Xu |
19-21 |
Pericardium |
|
Hai |
21-23 |
Sanjiao |
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