Chinese Traditional Treasures

Anitwang

For hundreds of years China has spread across the globe its knowledge of traditional medicine and and health care, acquired over 5,000 years of history. Today, the traditional Chinese health preservation methods, such as taijiquan boxing, static qigong breathing and therapeutic massage, are gaining increasing importance.
We Chinese believe that taiji is the origin of all lives on earth. Taiji comprises yin and yang, two types of vital energy. The five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water derive from yin and yang.
These five elements correspond to, or affect, particular human organs. That is, the element of the fire corresponds to the heart, the wood to the liver,the earth to the spleen and the stomach, the metal to the lung and the water to the kidney. The combination of yin and yang gives birth to all lives on earth. Taiji represents the harmonious state of balance between yin and yang.
According to the ancient classic Book of Changes, maintaining a balance between the mind and the body is vital for health. The opening chapter of Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the theoretical work of traditional Chinese medicine, introduces the theory of maintaining tranquility to ensure vital energy and prevent disease, this has become the theoretical framework for China's current qigong and health preservation studies. The three health preservation methods, namely, taiji boxing, static qigong breathing and therapeutic massage,are based on the theories outlined in Book of Changes and Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal medicine.
For a long time,the rest of the world was only aware of China's four major inventions: compass, gunpowder, paper-making and movable-type printing. Very few know about China's discovery of jingluo that exists in a human body. Jingluo is a system of internal main and collateral channels, regarded as a network of energy passages, along which acupuncture points are distributed. The existence of jingluo has been proved by using modern scientific methods at the Beijing Jingluo Research Center. The discovery of the existence of jingluo provides a strong support for the theories advanced in Book of Changes and Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine.
There is an increasing number of people worldwide learning taiji boxing, static qigong breathing and therapeutic massage. There methods are effective in preserving not only physical health, but also mental health and sex health. Meanwhile, it is also effective in reducing weight.