what is qi?

[Guest guest]

For me I see qi as the way cells communicate. by stimulating the electomagnetic field of the skin with a needle or moxa, tuning fork, laser, finger,cup, emmination from P8 etc you cause a spark that generates a healing cascade as cells begin to work together more effectively. points cause different groups of cells to work together better. we will not be able to prove how acupuncture works until we can determine the language of cells. at that time we will also be able to measure qi which would then be the loudness of the vibration that calls the cells to work together as it comes from from the organ, meridian and/or practitioner. so if there is no qi then none of the cells work together and the patient is dead.

 

Enrico Viselli, LAC

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[Guest guest]

Enrico,

 

we will not be able to prove how acupuncture

> works until we can determine the language of cells. at that time we

will also be

> able to measure qi which would then be the loudness of the

vibration that

> calls the cells to work together as it comes from from the organ,

meridian and/or

> practitioner. so if there is no qi then none of the cells work

together and

> the patient is dead.

 

There's a lot in what you say that I

find to be quite consonant with longstanding

considerations about what we know as qi.

 

But I have one question.

 

Why would qi be the loudness of

the vibration? What leads you to

see loudness, i.e., increased

amplitude as qi?

 

I'm reminded of a line of poetry

from Han Shan, Cold Mountain, which

as translated by Gary Snyder says,

 

Light wind in hidden pine.

Listen close. Sound gets better.

 

And I remember the poet Cid Corman

telling a small group of us who

had gathered to hear him read

that he wouldn't be raising his

voice during the evening, because

if we couldn't hear him when he

was whispering, then we just weren't

paying close enough attention.

 

I always tell people that I work

with that the essence of getting

in touch with their qi lies in

silence and stillness. I don't

think of the the organs screaming

loudly at the channgels and network

vessels and the points until their

associated qi has already been

substantially disordered.

 

By the time a person has pains

and other symptoms, they have

neglected many, many quiet messages

from all over their body as to what

has been happening with their qi.

 

Certainly the integration of masses

and of qi can produce a loudness

of varying degrees, but the thundering

silence of qi is its truly impressive

character.

 

Ken