Yang-Sheng (Nurturing Life) Volume 3, Issue No.

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The most piofounu meuicine is piouuceu natu
ially in the human bouy foi fiee This is the in
novative founuation of a veiy low cost health caie
system
Theie aie many ways to tuin on activate cieate
maximize the inteinal meuicine By enhancing
wellbeing anu function uisease is neutializeu
healeu oi even bettei uisease is pieventeu
These methous weie fully uesciibeu in the an
cient yet piactical tiauition of Chinese Neuicine
The Yellow Empeioi anu his mastei physicians
compileu an entiie book on mobilizing the
healei within The Classic of Innei Neuicine
Buang Bi Nei }ing
Some of these methous - acupunctuie anu mas
sage - iequiie tieatment fiom a licenseu meuical
pioviuei foi which theie is a cost Some of them
iequiie the ingestion of nouiishing anu functional
activating substances heibal meuicine which
also has a cost
0ne of them self-cultivation Qigong Tai Chi
meuitation can be utilizeu by inuiviuuals at
home oi in public venues paiks chuiches
schools hospitals foi fiee
In this way Asian Neuicine -- both clinical tieat
ment anu pioactive health piotection -- is a well
ness baseu meuicine
We will exploie this piofounu appioach to health
caie especially foi its economic beneits Anu we
will ask the question Why uoesnt the Asian
Neuicine piofession make a veiy big ueal out of
its wellness basis its wellness mechanism anu the
low cost wellness piactices Qigong anu Tai Chi
that aie associateu with this wellness baseu meui
cal system The founuation of healing anu pieven
tion in Asian Neuicine is to activate innei healing
iesouices thiough acupunctuie heibs manual
theiapy anu least expensively Qigong anu Tai
Chi Baseu on the knowleuge wisuom anu appli
cation of Chinese wellness baseu piactices inui
viuuals families agencies institutions communi
ties states anu even nations can pievent uisease
anu eliminate unnecessaiy meuical costs -- now
Tbe basis Qigong and Tai Cbi

It is wiuely known that the most hoiiiic uiseases
aie pieventable The Ameiican wellness iev
olution which hau a false stait in the s is
now wiue awake again Recently the cuiient 0S
Piesiuent has put the woius pievention anu
peisonal iesponsibility into the same phiase
anu set Piinciples foi incluuing Invest in pie
vention anu wellness When oui society
looks foi what to uo about this one of the cheap

The Chinese Wellness Based Healthcare System :
An Inspiring Solution to Health
& Economic Crisis in America
By Dr. Roger Jahnke
East West Perspective
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punctuie neeule it is in the patient The job of
the pioviuei uoctoi piactitionei is not to
cuie the uisease it is to maximize the natuial
healing capacity of the human system
In a time when we have ample eviuence that
neaily eveiy foim of uisease is pieventable it
is faii to say that the key solution to all piob
lems in health caie anu meuicine is to ieally
pievent pieventable uisease The unueilying
wellness basis which is inheient to Chinese
meuicine is iapiuly becoming a new founuation
of health caie anu meuicine in almost eveiy
intelligent anu oiienteu health anu meuical ini
tiative
Ceitainly the innovative bieakthioughs in sui
geiy phaimacy anu uiagnostics of Westein
conventional meuicine have ielevance Bowev
ei it is the uiscoveiy of behavioial pieven
tion anu the healei within - the innei meuicine
the inheient elixii that will shaie its maik in
meuical histoiy in the eaily yeais of the
st

centuiy
Wellness Based Medicine Functional Max
imization
The piofounu holistic powei of Chinese meui
cine is that it is inheiently iooteu in two well
ness piinciples that conventional Westein
meuicine has neglecteu until
veiy iecently The iist is the
holistic iueal Bouy-Ninu-
Spiiit These Thiee Tieasuies
aie always linkeu in Chinese
meuicine Bowevei they aie
only iecently becoming linkeu
in the emeiging new conven
tions of Westein health caie
The seconu is the two meui
cines in one piinciple of Chi
nese meuicine Shaieu with
Westein meuicine is the
Attack the Bisease mouel
This is to kill oi mouify the
pathogen oi pathogenic factois
Both Westein anu Chinese
est piogiams uue to gioup baseu implementa
tion is Asian self-caie Qigong anu Tai Chi
A bold claim
The same mechanism that mobilizes healing ie
souices thiough Chinese clinical theiapeutics can
be activateu by aveiage citizens at home foi no
cost Inuiviuuals can heal themselves foi fiee as
well as collaboiate with theii integiative meuical
team The citizens of any nation can solve any
health ciisis uue to chionic uegeneiative uisease
I was peisonally launcheu into Asian Neuicine In
in Cincinnati 0hio by the woius of Lao Zi
Lao Tze in Bao Be }ing Can you cultivate
youi essential eneigy anu sustain the suppleness of
a newboin with no caies To me this is the ulti
mate meuical anu health insight Is it possible that
uoctois shoulu have moie questions anu fewei an
sweis Foi me in my caieei this question anu oth
eis poseu by Lao Zi foim the theoietical anu eco
nomic basis foi the Chinese wellness baseu system
of health caie anu meuicine Latei that yeai I took
my iist Tai Chi class anu by I openeu my clin
ical piactice in Columbus 0hio a state that only ie
cently embiaceu licensuie
Tbe Healer Witbin
As all tiaineu in Chinese meuicine know eithei
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meuicine have excellent tools foi Attacking the
Bisease stiategies 0ntil veiy iecently the well
ness basis which complements Attack the Bis
ease has been unique to Chinese meuicine anu
othei holistic foims of meuicine Ayuiveuic Na
tive Shamanic It is the Fostei the Righteous
mouel
This is the veiy essence of wellness baseu meui
cine Rathei than attacking what is wiong the
Fostei the Righteous mouel maximizes what is
iight thiough the functional maximization tools of
Chinese meuicine acupunctuie heibs massage
anu peisonal wellbeing cultivation Qigong
Fostei the Righteous is to ieine awaken anu ac
tivate the healei within the innei elixii This
is the most piofounu meuicine which is natuially
piouuceu in the bouy unuei ceitain conuitions
While clinical pievention has been piesent in
Westein health caie only iecently has behavioi
ally baseu pievention been of any ielevance As
Westein meuicine tiansfoims itself to the wellness
anu pievention fiamewoik what is the piimaiy
mouel Chinese meuicine What is the key to be
havioial pievention Qigong anu nutiition the
oiiginal founuations of Chinese meuicine
Westein meuicine is cuiiently taking on numeious
best piactices of wellness anu Chinese functional
enhancement meuicine is the mouel
Mind-Body Energetics Qigong and Tai Cbi
and Medical Cost Reduction
Among the most eloquent foims of behavioially
baseu wellness piactice aie the Chinese Ninu-Bouy
Eneigetics piactices Qigong anu Tai Chi which
aie the cousins of Yoga fiom Inuia While the pow
eiful wellness baseu piactices of acupunctuie
bouy theiapy anu heibs have a signiicant cost
Qigong anu Tai Chi aie pietty much fiee once one
has leaineu them
While the questions about Qi eneigy function
anu the natuie of minu Xin-Beait Ninu aie the
most inteiesting aspects of Qi cultivation it is actu
ally the economics of peisonal wellness that is the
most compelling in oui society iight now Qigong
anu Tai Chi anu othei Ninu-Bouy piactices aie
the unueilying solution to many of the meuical cost
anu quality challenges of contempoiaiy time They
aie easy to leain simple foims easy to get people
enthusiastic about easy to uisseminate anu inex
pensive uue to the gioup baseu leaining context
It is ieally veiy simple people who pievent uisease
anu who activate the innei meuicine thiough self-
initiateu health enhancement piactice neeu less
clinical meuicine whethei it is conventional allo
pathic oi holistic
Prove it -
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Chinese wellness piactices aie most wiuely iefei
enceu as Ninu-Bouy piactices also moving meui
tation anu Chinese self-caie Qigong anu Tai Chi in
a multituue of foims aie now being implementeu in
schools univeisities faith institutions social sei
vice agencies hospitals clinics spas ietieat cen
teis community centeis even the militaiy 0vei
ianuomizeu clinical tiials RCT have iecently been
ievieweu inuing that the Ninu-Bouy wellness
piactices of Chinese meuicine aie safe anu effective
in tieating anu pieventing uisease anu ieuucing
iisk foi numeious uiseases The National Institute
of Bealth NIB has iecently instituteu an annual
event calleu NIB Ninu-Bouy Week with seveial
keynotes on Qigong anu Tai Chi in Septembei

In collaboiation with the 0niveisity of Illinois the
Institute of Integial Qigong anu Tai Chi conveneu
the National Consensus Neeting on Qigong anu Tai
Chi 0ne of many new bieakthioughs is the ie
seaich on gene expiession anu the ieuuction of cell
ueath longevity piactice uone with Qigong Tai
Chi anu othei foims of Ninu-Bouy piactice Tai
Chi Easy a piogiam uevelopeu especially foi
biinging Tai Chi anu Qigong wellness piogiams to
schools anu social seivice agencies has tiaineu
Piactice Leaueis in tiainings in collaboiation
with the National Wellness Institute at the 0nivei
sity of Wisconsin Asian Paciic Bealth in CA West
ein Nebiaska Regional Bealth Authoiity anu the
Southein Aikansas Council on Aging
Qigong is iapiuly being embiaceu by policy makeis
piogiam cooiuinatois ieseaicheis anu funueis
Wbo Will Beneit from tbis Paradigm Sbift Up
portunity
Now heie is the most piovocative aspect of well
ness meuicine especially foi the Chinese Neuicine
community In Ameiica sauly the majoi meuical
social anu economic oppoitunities associateu with
Chinese wellness have been neglecteu by the Chi
nese meuicine piofession In peisonal consulting
expeiiences incluuing lectuies to the ANA anu
Ameiican Bospital Association ABA anu the
Ameiican College of Bealthcaie Executives ACBE
it appeais that theie is a fai moie iobust inteiest in
the implications of wellness in conventional meui
cal institutions than in the institutions associateu
with Chinese meuicine
At the Institute of Integial Qigong anu Tai Chi
IIQTC we have tiaineu many moie NBs nuises
anu physical theiapists than we have piactitioneis
of Chinese meuicine The leveiaging of the natuial
wellness cuiiency of Chinese meuicine is moie in
the hanus of the Consoitium of Acauemic Bealth
Centeis foi Integiative Neuicine CABCIN than it
is in the Council of Colleges of Acupunctuie anu
0iiental Neuicine CCA0N Foi the public this is
excellent No one caies wheie Tai Chi anu Qigong
aie coming fiom they just want to be suie to have
access
In the past it has piobably been impoitant that the
institutions that piotect anu ieine the Chinese
meuicine piofession to focus less on the wellness

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basis of Asian meuicine to focus moie on the con
ventional methous of pioviuing meuical seivices
anu pioceuuies in the Ameiican meuical paiauigm
Bowevei it is also tiue that the Chinese meuicine
piofessional community is in the piocess of miss
ing one of the most piofounu oppoitunities in the
histoiy of health caie both foi seivice anu foi PR
While Chinese uoctois aie busy acting moie like
Westein clinical piactitioneis multituues of NBs
aie acting moie like Chinese uoctois anu vigoious
ly iecommenuing wellness Qigong Tai Chi meui
tation natuial foous etc These uoctois have to un
leain anu then leain much to uo this Piactitioneis
of Chinese meuicine aie alieauy ueeply tiaineu in
the piinciples of wellbeing anu balance
Wbat To Do -
Foi the Chinese meuicine community theie aie ie
ally only two actions necessaiy to leveiage the in
heient beneits that aie within the giasp of the 0ii
ental Neuicine community
Piactitioneis -- implement Chinese wellness in
woiu anu ueeu this is all inheient to the tiaining in
the meuicine
The institutions of the piofession -- make the
policy uecision to moie oveitly piomote the well
ness associateu aspects of Chinese meuicine
Theie is a majoi tiansfoimation in health caie in
play Ninu-Bouy piactice Qigong anu Tai Chi - is
an essential component The Chinese meuical com
munity is a natuial beneiciaiy It will iequiie how
evei that in clinical piactice in the piofessional
piomotion anu in the foimation of policy the Chi
nese meuicine piofession will neeu to actually live
fiom anu uemonstiate the piinciples anu piomises
of bona iue wellness baseu meuicine that low nat
uially fiom the Asian health caie tiauition
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Chouzko-Zajko W }ahnke R Consensus Repoit
of The National Expeit Neeting on Qigong anu Tai
Chi httphealeiwithinfounuationoig
NationalExpeitNeetinguocumentsexpeithtm
st Centuiy Bieakthiough -- Reseaiching the
Beneits of Ninu-Bouy Piactice by Investigating
uenetic Expiession http
wwwinstituteointegialqigonganutaichioig
ieseaichstbieakthioughhtm
Dr Roger )abnhe UMD
has piacticeu clinical
Chinese meuicine foi
ovei yeais Be has
tiaveleu to China times
to ieseaich Qigong anu
Tai Chi Be is a co-
founuei of the National
Qigong Association anu
is uiiectoi of tiaining
anu ieseaich at the Insti
tute of Integial Qigong
anu Tai Chi IIQTC httpIIQTCoig anu http
FeelTheQicom Bi }ahnke is the authoi of The
Bealei Within which is wiuely useu in wellness
anu health piomotion piogiams anu The Bealing
Piomise of Qi which became an instant classic of
minu-bouy piactice anu eneigy meuicine Be
along with his colleagues have iecently publisheu
the most compiehensive ieview of the Qigong
anu Tai Chi ieseaich liteiatuie in the Ameiican
}ouinal of Bealth Piomotion A}BP The Integial
Qigong anu Tai Chi Teachei Tiaining piogiam at
the IIQTC is consiueieu by many to be among the
most cieuible Teachei Tiaining piogiams outsiue
of China