Love this! Yes, this is why I was so blessed to study Medical Qi Gong and practice this ancient form, and glad I found you Remnant MD, watching you awaken to this is beautiful.
One of these days soon I may have a blog to share w you about it too, but for now these are great resources and the first one is easy to find on thriftbooks and not expensive. The 5-vol set is a masterpiece at $80 per volume off DaoistMagic.com website or $100/vol on amazon last I checked. I use protocols from these for my patients and have had great results. Currently working with a 40yo male on track for surgery for torn supraspinatus. After 3 consecutive days of Qi Gong flow at noon for about 30mins along with some manual work on his shoulder, helping him understand which meridians are involved where, and which direction the yin/yang energy wanted to flow from his shoulder and the rest of they body...and also painting a picture for him in which he could imagine himself self-healing, he reported that he is now confident he won't need surgery and that it will be back to full range of motion soon. This is after 6 months with arm immobilized in a sling and him thinking he was doomed to surgery and limited ROM for life afterward. All nonsense, he'll be back to playing basketball soon if he chooses. Another patient I worked with recently had migraines 12x per month and the drugs that initially reduced that number were having side effects and becoming less effective. After literally one session of Tui Na bodywork protocol, very basic stuff, and some manual work (cranial-sacral therapy and also simple deep tissue massage) of the neck/head and some key acu-points...and again helping her with her paradigm so she can understand *where the energy is stagnating, and why, and what it means, and what to do about it, and how it feels good to clear it and bring in new Qi* she left the first session exclaiming 'you just cured my migraines'. And I had to explain that no it was not me at all, her body is self-healing, and I simply helped her understand the conditions for self-healing, which is to have free-flow of energy aka qi, and have no energy stagnating anywhere in our field.
You'll LOVE those books and the practice, and I bet your patients will be so happy to incorporate anything you find helpful! It's all so fun too, truly magic.
Hard to think of many better intros! Yes, Dr Chang is also an MD...and a lawyer, and otherwise accredited...he's a great writer and vastly educated, I think you'll love that book! Please keep me posted on your path my friend.
I use exactly the same prompts with a search engine I'd use with AI. I don't use Google, but Brave. Usually I get a lot of results which I can then compare. I like that idea better than letting a chat bot choose among them for me. I have a husband with RA who scoffed at the idea of trying acupuncture in addition to his meds. It didn't take me long to be able to round up a bunch of resources for him to look at.
Oh sure, you always get the approved narrative sources, but you also get other ones as you continue down the list. After awhile you just avoid Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic because you know what they'll say. Also corporate medical "popular" magazines.
I am so grateful to have learned qi gong and tui na after a decade on the dark side.
I need a Tibetan doctor...
We all do.
Give GPT4 a try if you haven't. It's significantly better than GPT3.5 that you're using (I can tell by the green icon).
Love this! Yes, this is why I was so blessed to study Medical Qi Gong and practice this ancient form, and glad I found you Remnant MD, watching you awaken to this is beautiful.
I need to learn more about Qi Gong, very new to eastern thought.
Love to help answer any questions you might have, and if you are looking for reading recs:
Complete System of Self-Healing Internal Exercises by Stephen Chang
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-complete-system-of-self-healing-internal-exercises_stephen-thomas-chang/247552/#edition=1942449&idiq=1326508
Chinese Energetic Medicine Vol 1-5 by Jerry Alan Johnson
https://bookstore.qigongmedicine.com/collections/books/energetic-chinese-medicine
One of these days soon I may have a blog to share w you about it too, but for now these are great resources and the first one is easy to find on thriftbooks and not expensive. The 5-vol set is a masterpiece at $80 per volume off DaoistMagic.com website or $100/vol on amazon last I checked. I use protocols from these for my patients and have had great results. Currently working with a 40yo male on track for surgery for torn supraspinatus. After 3 consecutive days of Qi Gong flow at noon for about 30mins along with some manual work on his shoulder, helping him understand which meridians are involved where, and which direction the yin/yang energy wanted to flow from his shoulder and the rest of they body...and also painting a picture for him in which he could imagine himself self-healing, he reported that he is now confident he won't need surgery and that it will be back to full range of motion soon. This is after 6 months with arm immobilized in a sling and him thinking he was doomed to surgery and limited ROM for life afterward. All nonsense, he'll be back to playing basketball soon if he chooses. Another patient I worked with recently had migraines 12x per month and the drugs that initially reduced that number were having side effects and becoming less effective. After literally one session of Tui Na bodywork protocol, very basic stuff, and some manual work (cranial-sacral therapy and also simple deep tissue massage) of the neck/head and some key acu-points...and again helping her with her paradigm so she can understand *where the energy is stagnating, and why, and what it means, and what to do about it, and how it feels good to clear it and bring in new Qi* she left the first session exclaiming 'you just cured my migraines'. And I had to explain that no it was not me at all, her body is self-healing, and I simply helped her understand the conditions for self-healing, which is to have free-flow of energy aka qi, and have no energy stagnating anywhere in our field.
You'll LOVE those books and the practice, and I bet your patients will be so happy to incorporate anything you find helpful! It's all so fun too, truly magic.
I think I will start with that complete system of self-healing book.
Good intro, you think?
Hard to think of many better intros! Yes, Dr Chang is also an MD...and a lawyer, and otherwise accredited...he's a great writer and vastly educated, I think you'll love that book! Please keep me posted on your path my friend.
No one needs an AI for this. All you need is a browser.
it seems better with the right prompt than a search engine is with the same query.
How would you use it?
I use exactly the same prompts with a search engine I'd use with AI. I don't use Google, but Brave. Usually I get a lot of results which I can then compare. I like that idea better than letting a chat bot choose among them for me. I have a husband with RA who scoffed at the idea of trying acupuncture in addition to his meds. It didn't take me long to be able to round up a bunch of resources for him to look at.
Oh sure, you always get the approved narrative sources, but you also get other ones as you continue down the list. After awhile you just avoid Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic because you know what they'll say. Also corporate medical "popular" magazines.