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Qigong: Chinese Medicine or Pseudoscience

by Zixin Lin

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

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Qigong (CHEE-GUNG) has swept America as the newest approach to healing and was on the rise in China until the recent Falun gong crackdowns. This 2,500-year-old form of traditional Chinese medicine claims that the human body has channels (meridians) through which flows a substance known as Qi. While internal Qigong is essentially a relaxation and meditation technique, external Qigong is an alleged form of energy radiation emitted from the fingertips of 'masters.' Practitioners of this form of Qigong claim that they can heal serious diseases such as hypertension, glaucoma, asthma, ulcers, and even cancer.This remarkable book, written by a group of Chinese scientists, discusses the nature and practice of Qigong and its various manifestations. They give special attention to the many pseudoscientific claims made for external Qigong and uncover a good deal of deception practised by charlatans in the name of medicine. Exposed are such alleged Qigong practices as: clairvoyance, telepathy, weightlessness, energy discharge, energy-impregnated language (Qigong prescriptions), and much more.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “clairvoyance” and “telepathy”. Retained metadata contains “Clairvoyance” in the description and “Telepathy” in the description.

    • “clairvoyance”· via OpenAlex
    • “telepathy”· via OpenAlex
    • “Clairvoyance”· in description
    • “Telepathy”· in description

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2000-10-01Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology; Medical Entomology and ZoologyEnglish—Unknown

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