But the country who has surpassed all others in the use of acupuncture is France. In the late 1970s the World Health Organization, WHO, did a series of studies and declared Acupuncture medicine to be highly effective in 40 major internal disease processes. Thus Qi in the periphery envelopes heaven and earth, Qi in the interior activates them. Man's possession of life is completely dependent upon this Qi. That thing which is a tangible substance and is the basic energy which supports all life and matter in the cosmos.
Energy is a dynamic force in constant flux that circulates throughout the body.
Many practitioners substitute the word life for the word energy or chi, or Qi since life is an indication of energy within the body. All signs of life such as breathing, talking, sleeping, eating, and thinking etc. Energy is the basis for the apparent solid structures of the body, for what is a solid structure but a mass of living energized cells. All atoms once believed to be solid, are actually a pattern of energy which physicist have found to exist. That space is filled with light, which is in a constant state of flux.