These exercises are used throughout the world by over 200 million people daily to heal illness, release stress, reverse the aging process and improve performance. Unlike most sports, you don't have to be in shape to start learning Chi Gung and Tai Chi Chuan. Chi Gung exercises, such as Dragon and Tiger Chi Gung, are taught to patients in Chinese hospitals to heal chronic degenerative diseases such as chronic fatigue and high blood pressure. In fact, these gentle, health promoting exercises can be practiced by bedridden patients, while seated in a chair or soon after open heart surgery. T he Chinese government chose Chi Gung and Tai Chi Chuan from their vast healing arts system to solve their national health crisis.
China has a long tradition of preventative health care.
Doctors were formerly paid to keep their patients well. They were not paid when their patients got sick. The Chinese system of health care includes teaching patients how to care for themselves. Self-care exercises, like Chi Gung, enable people to heal illnesses, injuries, back problems, relieve stress and general malaise as well as prevent disease for very low cost in the comfort of their own home. Chi Gung increases the vital energy in the body and restores the flow of energy in pathways, called meridians, to all the organs and tissues in the body so that they can function better.