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Mind–Body, Ki (Qi) and the Skin: Commentary on Irwin's ‘Shingles Immunity and Health Functioning in the Elderly: Tai Chi Chih as a Behavioral Treatment’
Department of Dermatology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine Osaka, Japan
*E-mail: hiromik@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp
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TCC and Ki (Qi) |
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Visitors to China from the West (and also from Japan) are impressed in the early morning when they first wake up in their hotels to see many Chinese people quietly and beautifully performing Tai Chi Chuan (TCC: Tai-kyoku-ken, in Japanese, and, incidentally, Tai Chi Chih® is a registered trademark of a school of TCC) in the park just next to their hotels. Also it is now not unusual to see TCC practised by Westerners in New York or London these days. We remember that we were quite amused to see in the film Star Wars a somewhat caricatured version of martial arts probably related to TCC shown off in a ‘Western’ way.
Although it seems difficult to ‘define’ what TCC is, given its broad range from health exercise to martial art, it would be pertinent to say that its essential components are meditation, breathing and slow body movement. We usually
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TCC Against Diseases? |
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Methodological Challenge |
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Subjective or Objective |
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Ki can be Approached ‘Objectively’ |
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