Qigong - Energy Medicine for the New Millennium

Qigong (“chee gung”) is an ancient Chinese health modality that has been proven effective for a range of diseases and conditions, and it is used extensively by tens of millions of people daily for preventative medicine and self-healing. Although the Qigong and Energy Medicine DatabaseTM contains over 3500 medical and scientific references for Energy Medicine healing, Qigong and other energy-based therapies have not received widespread acceptance by Western medical practitioners. There are many reasons for the reluctance to adopt these therapies, including a lack of understanding of their benefits and how they work, a scarcity of clinical trial results, and an undefined scientific foundation. However, exciting new discoveries are being made in Energy Medicine research and practice that help to explain Qigong’s amazing self-healing, health maintenance, disease prevention, and chronic disease management benefits. This paper characterizes Qigong as Energy Medicine by examining the scientific basis, the medical need for, and the scientific research supporting the benefits of Energy Medicine. It also proposes a Human Energy Project to fully research and map the human bio-energy field.