Again, this shows how our government is completely and utterly for corporations rather than for the best interest of the people. As in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal article, I think this is going to be a huge success for Barr Pharmaceuticals (Quote: BRL) and any of the big pharmas out there like Merck (Quote: MRK) or Sanofi-Aventis (Quote: SNY) who can quickly jump on the bandwagon, but at what price? I believe this is going to be a medical disaster 5 to 20 years down the road, but no one cares about that- not even the women who are taking these pills who would very likely get cancer and/or need major operations . Read the rest of this entry »

From my 23 years of having doctors wrongly diagnose and treat me, I’ve come to the conclusion that doctors don’t know nearly enough to mess with the human body. This all became so so clear when I took bioengineering in college, when all the engineers in my class, including myself, noticed how impractical and non-technical medicine is. I’ll use two brief examples to illustrate this point. Read the rest of this entry »

Labeling the particular school of qigong to be focused on throughout this site is simply to distinguish the characteristics of this school from the thirty three hundred other styles and schools of Qi Gong. In this introduction, the main concern is describing what qigong is. “Qi” is a word denoting a special form of energy originating from Southern China (what is now the province of Fu Zhou and its surrounding area, also spoken in Taiwan as Taiwanese) over 3,300 years ago. “Gong” means work or technique. Though not written with the same characters, the sound “Qi” in this dialect also means “air” or “breath.” It is these alternate meanings that were translated into the Mandarin Chinese dialect as “Chi” and have caused current misconceptions. The summary provided by wikipedia incorrectly emphasized that “Qi” means breath or respiration. Read the rest of this entry »