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Qi Energy

Qi
- is both the life force (or vital substance) and the organizing principle flowing through all things and establishing their interconnectedness. Chinese believe that every living thing (both human and non-human) has Qi.

Forms of Qi energy

It is known from the theory of traditional Chinese medicine about existence of several forms of Qi. As for the human organism, first of all, it is Qi of Primordial Sky (in other words, ancestral Qi-energy) and Qi of Successive Sky (complex Qi, that is generating by human organism as result of the consumption of food, water and air).

Ancestral Qi 

is obtaining from parents at the moment of conception, and expends it the entire remaining life more or less intensive.

Complex Qi 

is dividing on Feeding Qi [Ying-Qi], which is situated inside the body, and Guarding Qi [Wei-Qi] which is situated on skin surface.

Feeding Qi 

ensures health by means of saturation of all structure organs of human organism with already transformed nutrients.

Guarding Qi 

ensures healthy state of human organism by preventing insertion of external pathogens.

Thereto, there exists Qi energy of environment, which changes behaviors cyclical (by five and six seasons). This is the

Each of these Qi can appear as a cause illness. This happens due two reasons - objective and subjective.

Subjective reason consists in the fact that the persons, who does not note cyclic variations in environment, will conduct the means of life (incorrect nourishment, the incorrect nature of activity, incorrect viewpoint), that finally leads to disease.

Objective reason consists in the fact that each year of the sixty-year-old cycle of JIA-ZI is unfavorable for the specific types of the human organism (total it is counted 25 Yin-Yang types of human organism). If the corresponding person does not undertakes protective actions, then disease to him is guaranteed.

In connection with this, Chinese medicine divide the Qi of environment (independently to dividing on the seasons Qi, to this devoted study of Five transformations - Six Qi energies) on ZHEN-QIi and XIE-QI (XIE in BU-XIE term, is not the same to XIE-QI). Europeans interpreters these terms translate as True Qi and False Qi. Actually this translation is not completely exact. It is more correct to translate term Zhen - as Straight (Right, True Qi), and term Xie-Qi - as Deformated (Distorted Qi).

What is straightness-curvature of Qi ?

Straightness is the integrity of Qi energy flow, existence of balance of it component parts. Curvature - it is unbalance of Qi flow, change of ratio of it component parts. The integrity of Qi flow insures the arrival of Qi to it destination. The curvature of Qi flow is tend to dividing of component parts of Qi and their self-dependent interaction with tissue of internal organs. As result Qi is not arrive, or arrive incompletely to destination.

Let us give the translation of small fragment from the treatise of Li Shizen "Bencao gang mu": 


"Li Shizen said: 

The Sky creates. The Soil transforms
As a result the grasses and trees are born.

When solid penetrates the soft, then roots and tubers are formed.
When soft penetrates the solid, the stems and boles are formed. 

Leaves and cups relate to Yang.
Flowers and fruits relate to Yin. 

Therefore among the grasses there are [which possessing the qualities] of trees, and among the trees 
there are [which possessing the qualities] of grasses.
Those which received Qi completely - are food, those which received deformed Qi (bent) - are poisons.

Therefore:

there are 5 elements: [Tree, Fire, Soil, Metal, Water],
there are 5 Qi: [Wind, Heat, Moisture, Aridity, Cold],
there are 5 colors: [blue, red, yellow, white, black],
there are 5 tastes: [sour, bitter, sweet, hot, salty],
there are 5 qualities: [cold, cool, hot, warm, normal],
there are 5 [means] of application: [raising up-lowering down, floating-immersion, tend to medium].

(4, juan 12, p. 80)
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