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I am reading a book titled "The Adagio of Qi"(Chinese) by Dr. Wang Wei Kung, who has earned his doctoral degree of physics, emphasizing neurology, from the U. of Hopkins. He has devoted in the study of Qi since 1988, after teaching many years in several medical schools.

In the Prelude Dr. Wang pointed out that the first ten diseases causing death in both the West and in Taiwan, such as cancer, cardiovascular illness and diabetes are all related to the circulation system. He also pointed out that the existing medical theories regarding circulation are insufficient to explain the complex causes of diseases, and the new research has hit deadlock since the 1970s.

On the contrary, traditional Chinese medicine is specialized in curing problems of circulation system. Diseases commonly happening in modern society are mainly caused by the quality worsening of our blood, and the western medicine only sees the consequences of illness instead of finding the causes.

The history of Chinese study on body meridians can be dated back to more than three thousand years but it never established a theoretical framework that considered necessary for modern science.

In this book the author connects the blood flows and Qi by "resonance". He proposed several questions that never got explained by western medicine or fluid mechanics because it is totally ignorant about the Qi-- the flows of energy. One of his questions is: How heart works? The development of artificial heart has a history of more than two decades and the newest type is finally able to stabilize blood flows with about 30 watts power, but our hearts conduct this work with simply 1.7 watts. Without considering the existence of Qi, even the most advanced science fails.

To be continued....