Introduction to Image Medicine
Grand Master Mingtang Xu, a professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the founder and director of the medical scientific research institute “Kundawell” in Beijing, China and Seattle, USA, an executive consulter of Worldwide Chinese Medical federation, the vice-president of World Academic Society of Medical Qigong, the president of the international foundation “Mingtang”, graduated from Beijing University in 1989 with a major in software engineering. Xu comes from a family of famous surgeons in China’s Hunan Province. Since early childhood, Xu practiced Wushu from his great grandfather and learned Wu Yi, a Chinese form of shamanism, from his grandmother. In his school years, he started to learn spiritual methods of healing and practice with his first teacher, an eighty-year Shaman woman. This was the beginning of his ZYQ education. In addition to his technical studies, Xu studied Traditional Chinese Medicine. From his third year of the university, he worked for a hospital as a diagnostician.  Since 1998, Xu has run annual international ZYQ and IM retreats in Shaolin. He currently conducts ZYQ and IM seminars and demonstrates healing methods throughout the world.