Qigong might seem mystical, but science has a lot to say about its benefits.

Dr. Alex Heyne - Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
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so there's this practice in China that
is said Can ward off the 10,000 kinds of
illnesses and that practice is called
chiong now while chiong can look like a
bunch of old ladies in the park waving
their hands up and down there are
actually three integral parts to chiong
or breath work those three parts are
visualization you're actually guiding
your mind or guiding it to do something
physical movements and physical exercise
they can be waving the hands or it can
be very intense exercise as well as
specific breathing exercises now in case
you thought it seemed weird or it seemed
mystical or woo woo actually modern
scientific research has studied chiong
quite a lot and the scientists have
found that there are three main benefits
the first is that chiong regulates your
chronic stress Pathways via the HPA axis
the second it can boost your immune
system the way that exercise does and
the third is that it actually decreases
inflammation so while chigong cannot
cure every problem that you may have
just like the ancient Chinese said it
can treat the myriad
