09/12/2022
Qigong as a Complementary Practice for Health Improvement
As we move forward in the age of high-stress lifestyles and pressure to perform, our bodies may develop health conditions due to stress, fatigue, imbalance in our diets, age or other factors. Ancient practices like Qigong may help by complementing disease management and treatment by harnessing the Qi within us.
In the study called "Benefits of Qigong as an integrative and complementary practice for health: a systematic review," they illustrate how Qigong can provide relief of a wide variety of conditions by harmonizing the flow of Qi in our bodies:
"Qigong is a Traditional Chinese Medicine complementary practice (Práticas Integrativas e Complementares, PIC) that meets this perspective of health care. And, as already discussed, it is a practice with a high level of recognition for its positive health results. During the process, there is an improvement in the transport of energy and blood through the established body-mind relationship, which influences the blood, the essence, body fluids, and the mind, essential to the human being. In this way, it is possible to adjust and harmonize the flows of Qi and the Yin-Yang of the body, therefore promoting health…
It is possible to understand the physiological results from the practice of Qigong through the scientific evidence identified and submitted to evaluation, which makes this study of great contribution, since it brings a synthesis of the production regarding the use of an integrative and complementary practice in health, based on the most relevant scientific findings available.
The Systematic Review revealed the beneficial application of Qigong in the promotion, prevention, and rehabilitation of diseases and physiological disorders in adults and the elderly, such as: cancer; fibromyalgia; Parkinson's disease; COPD; Burnout; stress; social isolation; chronic low back pain; cervical pain; buzz; osteoarthritis; fatigue; depression; and cardiovascular diseases. This reinforces the need to strengthen the use of PICs, such as the Qigong, in health care with a view to ensuring comprehensiveness and to improving the health care assistance offered to adults and elderly individuals."
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32696918/
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