ACUP 2200 Taiji/Qigong
Dr. Ying Sheng Wu
Doctor of TCM
Topic
History of Qigong (1)
History of Qigong
Before the Han Dynasty (Before 206 B.C.)
Book of Changes
2700 B.C. Huandi Nei Jing
1100 B.C. Lao Zhi (Dao De Jing) “concentrate the Qi and achieve the
softness”
Before the Han Dynasty (Before 206
B.C.)
There were two major types of Qigong training.
1. One type was used by the Confucian and Taoist scholars, who used it
primarily to maintain their health.
2. The other type of Qigong was for medical purposes, using needles or
exercises to adjust the Chi or to cure illness.
There was almost no religious color to the training.
All of the training focused on following the natural way and improving
and maintaining health.
Actively countering the effects of nature was considered impossible.
Book of Changes : The ancient Chinese
divination manual and book of wisdom
More than 5,000 years old, the book of Changes is a book of oracles that
contains the whole of human experience. By asking it simple or complex
questions, this means of divination helps us to explore the unconscious
through the symbolism of hexagrams.
These hexagrams guide us towards the solution of difficult problems and
life situations - whatever questions we may ask. However, the book of
changes may also be read as a book of wisdom revealing the laws of life
and how we must listen to them if we are to live in peace and harmony
with the world about us.
易无思也，无為也，寂然不動，感而遂通天下之故。
The changes have no
consciousness, no action, they are
quiescent and do not move. But if
they are stimulated, they penetrate
all situations under heaven.
Divination and meditation
Book of Changes
Book of Changes is one of the most precious contributions of Chinese
culture, which has exerted a great influence on Chinese philosophy,
literature, historical study, as well as natural and social sciences.
“Book of Changes covers such a wide range of knowledge that such
fields as astronomy, geography, music, art of war, and prosodic can all
find a place in it.”
Sun Simiao, one of the most famous doctors in Chinese history, once
stated: “Medicine cannot be mastered before you have studied Book of
Changes.”
Book of Changes contains a rich stock of dialectic thought. Therefore,
TCM is said to have the same origin as Book of Changes.
Book of Changes, with its profound theories and wide range of
knowledge, is the source of nature sciences(including TCM), the root of
correct world outlook and the origin of many branches of learning.
The particular relationship between
Book of Changes and TCM
TCM cannot be approached without studying Book of Changes, Book of
Changes implies the basic theory of TCM, and TCM is practiced by applying the
theories of Book of Changes.
The theories such as the Five Elements, Zang Xiang, Qi Hua, Yun Qi and the
causes of diseases held by TCM can all find their origins in Book of Changes.
1. Yin Qi and Yang Qi ___ and _ _
2. Sancai: Tian Qi, Di Qi and Ren Qi （人法地，地法天，天法道，道法自然）
3. The six positions and the six meridians
4. The eight trigram and the meridians
5. The theory of circles
6. the moderation in Book of Changes and the theory of balance and coordination
( 中醫的“中”）
The relationship between the Luo Shu
and Hetu
Hetu - Early Eight Trigrams (pre-heaven) – generating
Luoshu – Later Eight Trigrams (post-heaven) – overcoming
We take the birthday of person as the borderline: before birth, a
person’s life is governed by the early eight trigrams; after birth, a
person’s life should be subject to the later eight trigrams.
The early eight trigrams endow mankind with all kinds of functions and
indices, such as work capacity, intelligence, life span, and so on. But
after birth, owing to the restrictions of objective conditions, it is hardly
possible to reach the limit, and many factors such as natural disasters,
nourishment, emotions, and so on, will affect human’s life, especially
the life span.
Huang Di Nei Jin
（黃帝内經）
Five main TCM therapies in Nei Jin
North – Moxa treatment （灸）
East – Acupuncture Stone treatment （ Acupressure ）（砭石，推拿）
South – Acupuncture needle treatment （針）
West – Herbal treatment （葯）
Middle – Qi Gong treatment （按蹺導引）
女七男八
《》
女子七歲。腎氣盛，齒更髮長； (7歲) 丈夫八歲，腎氣實，髮長齒更；
二七而天癸至，任脈通，太沖脈盛，月事以時下，故有子；(14歲) 二八，腎氣盛，天癸至，精氣溢瀉，陰陽和，故能有子；
三七，腎氣平均，故真牙生而長極； (21歲) 三八，腎氣平均，筋骨勁強，故真牙生而長極；
四七，筋骨堅，髮長極，身體盛壯； (28歲) 四八，筋骨隆盛，肌肉滿壯；
五七，陽明脈衰，面始焦，發始墮； (35歲) 五八，腎氣衰，發墮齒槁；
六七，三陽脈衰於上，面皆焦，發始白； (42歲) 六八，陽氣衰竭於上，面焦，髮鬢頒白；
七七，任脈虛，太沖脈衰少，天癸竭，地道不通，故形壞而無子也。 七八，肝氣衰，筋不能動；
(49歲) 八八，天癸竭，精少，腎臟衰，形體皆極，則齒髮去。
“Kidney Qi” in Nei Jin
Kidney Qi of a girl becomes abundant at the age of 7, when her baby teeth
begin to be replaced by permanent ones and her hair begins to grow
longer.
At the age of 14, a girl begins to have menstruation, energy in her
conception meridian begins to flow, and energy in her rigorous meridian
begins to grow in abundance. At this point, she begins to have
reproductive energy, which is the reason why she is capable of pregnancy.
At the age of 21, kidney energy of a woman becomes equal to that of an
average adult, and her wisdom teeth begin to grow with the tendons and
bones reaching the strongest stage.
At the age of 28, her tendons and bones become hard, her hair grows to
the longest, and her body is in top condition.
“Kidney Qi” in Nei Jin
At the age of 35, her bright yang meridians begin to weaken with the
result that her complexion starts to look withered, and her hair begins to
fall off.
At the age of 42, her three yang meridians in the face begin to weaken
with the result that her complexion starts to look even more withered
and her hair begins to turn gray
At the age of 49, the energy of her conception meridian becomes
deficient, energy of her vigorous meridian becomes weakened and
scanty. At this point in time, her sex energy becomes exhausted, and
she begins
to experience menopause. Her body becomes old and she cannot
become pregnant.
“Kidney Qi” in Nei Jin
As to a boy, his kidney energy becomes abundant, hair begins to grow
longer, and his teeth begin to change, at the age of 8.
At the age of 16, a young man's kidney energy becomes even more
abundant. At this point in time, his productive energy begins to arrive;
he is full of semen, which he can ejaculate. When a young man has
sexual intercourse with a woman at this stage of life, he can have
children.
At the age of 24, a young man's kidney energy becomes equal to that of
an average adult, and his wisdom teeth begin to grow with the tendons
and bones reaching the strongest stage.
At the age of 32, a man's tendons, bones, and muscles are already fully
grown.
“Kidney Qi” in Nei Jin
At the age of 40, a man's kidney energy begins to weaken, his hair
begins to fall off, and his teeth begin to wither.
At the age of 48, a man experiences a weakening and exhaustion of his
yang energy in
upper region and his complexion begins to look withered, his hair begins
to turn grey.
At the age of 56, a man's liver energy begins to weaken, his tendons
become inactive. At this point in time, a man's sex energy begins to run
out with scanty semen remaining in him, and his kidneys become
weakened, which is why all parts of his body begin to grow old.
At the age of 64, a man's hair and teeth are gone.
Laozi (Dao De Jin)
The Book of Change says, “Dao(Tao) is the aid heaven gives to the origin
of things; De is the aid earth gives to the growth process." Dao and De,
then, is simply the Tao of heaven and the Tao of earth. Jin means
"constant, everyday" . Thus that which is "classic" is the constancy of
Tao.
“ 道生一，一生二，二生三，三生萬物。萬物負陰而抱陽，沖氣以為和。
” - 《道
》
經
德
Dao De Jing:
Tao gives birth to unity, unity gives birth to duality, duality gives birth to
trinity, and trinity gives birth to all things.
All things are wrapped by Yin and contain Yang, and their pulsing Qi in
harmony.
“ 專氣致柔，能嬰兒乎” - 《》
Dao De Jing:
“concentrate the Qi and achieve the softness”
“ 谷神不死，是谓玄牝。 玄牝之门，是谓天地根，绵绵若存，用之不勤。” - 《》
Dao De Jing:
The spirit of corns does not die, and is called Mysterious Female.
The door of the Mysterious Female is called the root of heaven and
earth.
It lingers in wisps.
Use it without haste.
” 天食人以五氣，地食人以五味。五氣入鼻，藏於心肺，上使五色修明，音聲能彰。五味入
口，藏於腸胃，味有所藏，以養五氣。氣和而生，津液相成，神乃自生。“ - 《》
Huang Di Nei Jin:
Heaven nourishes human beings with five atmospheric forces; Earth
nourishes human beings by five flavors.
The five kinds of heaven Qi travel into the body through the nose to be
stored in the heart and lung so that the heart makes five colors vividly
manifest in the face, and the lung makes the voice loud and clear.
The five flavors enter through the mouth to be stored in the intestines
and stomach for the rejuvenesence of viscera. When the Qi of five
viscera are rejuvenated, yin and yang Qi will be in harmony and fluids
will be produced, so that the spirit will be generated automatically.
Laozi
