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Chinese traditional medicine and the treatment of allergic asthma
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defence–is placed in the best operating conditions for performing its function of protection against external microorganisms. Correct postural alignment can be achieved through the practice of qigong, through meditation and through manual methods such as tuina. Following a brief theoretical presentation, most of the time will be devoted to practical work through in which participants can experience for themselves the work of postural internal search. According to the principles that will be exposed, it will be understood that the true postural correction can be obtained through a careful and gradual process of ‘listening’ within. The symmetry that is sought, in fact, is not exclusively that of geometry: when the right position is achieved, it makes one feel in harmony with the environment and in communion with all that exists. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.974 WP-025 Chinese traditional medicine and the treatment of allergic asthma Paolo Ercoli 1 , Lidia Crespi 1 , Massimo Muccioli 2 1 FISTQ 2 Scuola
Federazione Italiana Tuina e Qigong, Florence, Italy TAO, Piacenza, Italy
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), allergic asthma is a mixed case of Deficit/Excess, which can be successfully treated with acupuncture and pharmacology. The treatment in TCM is mainly based on toning up the system of yangqi of the Kidney and Lung in the winter period, and on reducing the Wind ‘trapped in’ in acute episodes between the acute fits themselves. The use of techniques of Tuina treatment can help and even lessen the need for acupuncture treatment or the amount of herbs, on condition that the treatments respect the principles of treatment adopted to resolve the case, and that they are modulated in the different phases of the therapy. The aim of our study is to show which principles are on the basis of a correct building of the sequence of Tuina treatment according to the therapeutic choices. Those principles will therefore be applied to the different times of the therapy, both in the tonifying of the chronic phase and in the reduction of the acute one. Finally, some dietary advice will be suggested, concerning the different phases of the treatment. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.975 WP-026 ‘Health Preservation’ in Chinese medicine Scarsella Secondo FISTQ (Federazione Italiana Scuole di Tuina e Qigong), Florence, Italy ‘Health preservation’ plays a fundamental role in Chinese medicine. Wei Sheng, life’s protection, is a Chinese word from the book Zhuangzhi (teacher Zhuang) with more than 2000 years of history. The prevention is the real basis in the history of
medicine in China as this famous statement says: “the superior doctor treats when there is no disease” (Shang Gong Zhi Wei Bing); in fact all the therapeutical branches of this ancient but still very relevant medicine have techniques and exercises to prevent diseases and to strengthen the body constitution. The Chinese term for this is Zhong Yi Yang Sheng Kang Fu Xue that could be translated as ‘Health Preservation and Rehabilitation’. Of course the techniques for health preservation in acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and tuina are very well known, but there are also some special and less well-known techniques to help the healing process in a healthy natural habitat (Huan Jing Kang Fu) as Quan Shui Liao Fa (therapy with spring water), Kong Qi Liao Fa (air therapy), Xiang Hua Liao Fa (flower’s therapy), etc. In fact, the perception of health status and quality of life is not influenced by the availability of drugs and diagnostic procedures. It is important to help person with therapies that promote health and prevent diseases, also to decrease recourse to therapies and diagnostic tests not appropriate and fit into a community of support for his health. Chinese massage, gymnastics, energy, self-massage techniques and moxibustion can be an excellent ‘ribilitazione’ system with low management costs paid by the national health system and with a great impact on the quality of life in line with the address of the health systems of many European countries, which make greater use of multidisciplinary therapies. This type of work allows a better control of chronic diseases and prevention of exacerbations through closer contact between the patient and the therapeutic community and improves nutritional and pharmacological monitoring. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.976 WP-027 Taijiquan, qigong and yoga meditation Albiani Alfredo FISTQ (Federazione Italiana Scuole di Tuina e Qigong), Florence, Italy the fundamental aspects of the practice and proven results of Taijiquan, qigong and yoga. The Taijiquan and Qigong, as well as yoga, are an essential form of meditation. We mistakenly believe meditation to be passive, while Diana, Chan, and Zen are as active as they can be. Each one of these techniques, methods and disciplines, proposes meditation as a constituent and essential part of them. The difference between sitting, standing and movement techniques is more formal than substantial. Meditation, at the organic level, promotes activity in three systems: the nervous, the endocrine and the immune system. It triggers a change in the emitted brain waves, from, beta–symptom of distress–to reach the alpha and theta, that is the basic condition of access to our deeper resources, which stimulates the production of endo-drugs treating damages and injuries effectively. It is through a careful, fine and subtle practice of the posture and gestures, through a deep awareness of the breathing, of the self-perceptive sensations, that we reach this state, necessary to trigger the mechanisms of healing and inner growth.
Workshop Presentations / European Journal of Integrative Medicine 4S (2012) 202–211
defence–is placed in the best operating conditions for performing its function of protection against external microorganisms. Correct postural alignment can be achieved through the practice of qigong, through meditation and through manual methods such as tuina. Following a brief theoretical presentation, most of the time will be devoted to practical work through in which participants can experience for themselves the work of postural internal search. According to the principles that will be exposed, it will be understood that the true postural correction can be obtained through a careful and gradual process of ‘listening’ within. The symmetry that is sought, in fact, is not exclusively that of geometry: when the right position is achieved, it makes one feel in harmony with the environment and in communion with all that exists. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.974 WP-025 Chinese traditional medicine and the treatment of allergic asthma Paolo Ercoli 1 , Lidia Crespi 1 , Massimo Muccioli 2 1 FISTQ 2 Scuola
Federazione Italiana Tuina e Qigong, Florence, Italy TAO, Piacenza, Italy
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), allergic asthma is a mixed case of Deficit/Excess, which can be successfully treated with acupuncture and pharmacology. The treatment in TCM is mainly based on toning up the system of yangqi of the Kidney and Lung in the winter period, and on reducing the Wind ‘trapped in’ in acute episodes between the acute fits themselves. The use of techniques of Tuina treatment can help and even lessen the need for acupuncture treatment or the amount of herbs, on condition that the treatments respect the principles of treatment adopted to resolve the case, and that they are modulated in the different phases of the therapy. The aim of our study is to show which principles are on the basis of a correct building of the sequence of Tuina treatment according to the therapeutic choices. Those principles will therefore be applied to the different times of the therapy, both in the tonifying of the chronic phase and in the reduction of the acute one. Finally, some dietary advice will be suggested, concerning the different phases of the treatment. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.975 WP-026 ‘Health Preservation’ in Chinese medicine Scarsella Secondo FISTQ (Federazione Italiana Scuole di Tuina e Qigong), Florence, Italy ‘Health preservation’ plays a fundamental role in Chinese medicine. Wei Sheng, life’s protection, is a Chinese word from the book Zhuangzhi (teacher Zhuang) with more than 2000 years of history. The prevention is the real basis in the history of
medicine in China as this famous statement says: “the superior doctor treats when there is no disease” (Shang Gong Zhi Wei Bing); in fact all the therapeutical branches of this ancient but still very relevant medicine have techniques and exercises to prevent diseases and to strengthen the body constitution. The Chinese term for this is Zhong Yi Yang Sheng Kang Fu Xue that could be translated as ‘Health Preservation and Rehabilitation’. Of course the techniques for health preservation in acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and tuina are very well known, but there are also some special and less well-known techniques to help the healing process in a healthy natural habitat (Huan Jing Kang Fu) as Quan Shui Liao Fa (therapy with spring water), Kong Qi Liao Fa (air therapy), Xiang Hua Liao Fa (flower’s therapy), etc. In fact, the perception of health status and quality of life is not influenced by the availability of drugs and diagnostic procedures. It is important to help person with therapies that promote health and prevent diseases, also to decrease recourse to therapies and diagnostic tests not appropriate and fit into a community of support for his health. Chinese massage, gymnastics, energy, self-massage techniques and moxibustion can be an excellent ‘ribilitazione’ system with low management costs paid by the national health system and with a great impact on the quality of life in line with the address of the health systems of many European countries, which make greater use of multidisciplinary therapies. This type of work allows a better control of chronic diseases and prevention of exacerbations through closer contact between the patient and the therapeutic community and improves nutritional and pharmacological monitoring. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2012.07.976 WP-027 Taijiquan, qigong and yoga meditation Albiani Alfredo FISTQ (Federazione Italiana Scuole di Tuina e Qigong), Florence, Italy the fundamental aspects of the practice and proven results of Taijiquan, qigong and yoga. The Taijiquan and Qigong, as well as yoga, are an essential form of meditation. We mistakenly believe meditation to be passive, while Diana, Chan, and Zen are as active as they can be. Each one of these techniques, methods and disciplines, proposes meditation as a constituent and essential part of them. The difference between sitting, standing and movement techniques is more formal than substantial. Meditation, at the organic level, promotes activity in three systems: the nervous, the endocrine and the immune system. It triggers a change in the emitted brain waves, from, beta–symptom of distress–to reach the alpha and theta, that is the basic condition of access to our deeper resources, which stimulates the production of endo-drugs treating damages and injuries effectively. It is through a careful, fine and subtle practice of the posture and gestures, through a deep awareness of the breathing, of the self-perceptive sensations, that we reach this state, necessary to trigger the mechanisms of healing and inner growth.