Quoted from Binqi and expelling qi article by Dr. Shen Hongxun.
Why should we consider gases as the achetypical substance for chi even if this is a limited interpretation? Gases diffuse easily for all types of activity and allow materialistic probing. My own thoughts on this theory by Dr. Shen is that there probably are several different intravisceral gases which would usually serve some biological function in regular metabolism and vascular circulation, but even minute amounts of out-of-place gases in spaces between bodily tissues could cause inflammatory pains in response.
Did anyone catch the news that last year two independent research teams found lymphatic veins inside mammalian brains, where there was thought to be none? I have noticed that some of the Wahnam Family members have medical professions. So far even with our advanced medical instruments the scientests have not been able to observe these gases in this hypothetic function. Consider it a chance to do something monumental for the Western medicine and earn a guaranteed Nobel Prize for Medicine if you succeed in confirming such a gas mechanism within the body through research.
With sincere respect,
Olli
Different qualities of binqi
Wind-binqi (Feng): The patient experiences wind-binqi as cold, stiffness or pain. During a buqi treatment the practitioner can feel wind-binqi as a cold breeze leaving the affected area of the patient via the skin. The patient can feel that something is moving down the body towards the extremities and leaving the body via the hands and the feet, or directly out of the affected area. A sign that wind-binqi is leaving the body is a change of colour under the skin in those areas: it turns blue. Because wind-binqi leaves the body easily and quickly, the colour of the hands and feet will normalize again when the binqi has left the body.
From these phenomena we conclude that wind-binqi involves different kinds of gases. This gas accumulates and stagnates in and moves to certain areas of the body, which then become rigid, painful or numb. If this process continues over a longer period, it will affect the organs.
Cold-binqi (han): The patient experiences cold-binqi as a cold area in the body. During a buqi treatment the practitioner also feels that this area is cold and can see the colour of the hands of the patient turning blue because cold makes the micro-vessels contract. During the treatment cold noves slowly to the natural exits of the body. In most people the cold will then concentrate in the fingers or toes and the colour of the rest of the hands or the feet will normalize again. The fingers and toes will be colder than before.
What is the nature of this cold-binqi? In the muscles a certain element is present that takes warmth away. I did some chemical research in my laboratory in Xinjiang related to the composition of this element. My research consisted of analysing two samples of blood from the same muscle, one taken before treatment and one after treatment. Seven people took part. I observed a change of volume of ammonium chloride in the blood: before treatment it was higher than normal and after treatment it was back to normal. only this kind of research has not been done with an enough large number of people so there has never been a scientific report of it. Ammonium chloride has a capacity to absorb warmth. A cooling down of a certain area of the body will diminish the blood circulation.
Damp-binqi (shi): The patient experiences damp-binqi as itching and pain. There will be swelling, infections in certain areas of the body and the skin can show different kinds of spots. During a buqi treatment the practitioner senses humidity and itching, and the patient can feel moisture leaving the body. Some patients can have a sticky kind of sweating that is accompanied with by a strong smell.
Damp-binqi can have different causes. In a very humid environment humidity can directly enter the body. External humidity can also be an indirect cause for a humid environment creates a higher pressure on the skin, which the natural elimination via the skin of different kinds of binqi (including damp). In some diseases, e.g. eczema, damp-binqi is a residue of reactions of the immune system.
Fire-binqi (huo): the pathogenic factor fire gives rise to a subjective sensation of heat in the patient as well as a radiating sensation of heat experienced by the practitioner.
During a treatment the patient can feel heat moving down towards the hands and feet and sometimes they can see strong red spots beneath the skin.
Fire-binqi is often linked with infections, both auto infections and exogenous infections.
Emotional binqi: The patient can feel this as fixed or wandering pain in the chest cavity or in other areas of the body. The patient can feel very sad, depressed or angry or may experience other kinds of emotion. During a buqi treatment, the practitioner will experience emotional binqi as a painful, tingling or electric sensation. Under the kin of the patient's hands, white blotches of gas may appear or a grey-blue colour.
Emotional binqi results from different kinds of emotion. To take an example, anger-binqi is a gas that accumulates in the body. It often concentrates in the diaphragm and can be painful, It may affect the organs that surround it such as the stomach, the liver, the gallbladder. It can also move and affect other parts of the body. In the case of anger a gas is produced, but other emotions might be attended with the appearance of other substances that nevertheless may accumulate in the body and cause disease.
Wind-binqi (Feng): The patient experiences wind-binqi as cold, stiffness or pain. During a buqi treatment the practitioner can feel wind-binqi as a cold breeze leaving the affected area of the patient via the skin. The patient can feel that something is moving down the body towards the extremities and leaving the body via the hands and the feet, or directly out of the affected area. A sign that wind-binqi is leaving the body is a change of colour under the skin in those areas: it turns blue. Because wind-binqi leaves the body easily and quickly, the colour of the hands and feet will normalize again when the binqi has left the body.
From these phenomena we conclude that wind-binqi involves different kinds of gases. This gas accumulates and stagnates in and moves to certain areas of the body, which then become rigid, painful or numb. If this process continues over a longer period, it will affect the organs.
Cold-binqi (han): The patient experiences cold-binqi as a cold area in the body. During a buqi treatment the practitioner also feels that this area is cold and can see the colour of the hands of the patient turning blue because cold makes the micro-vessels contract. During the treatment cold noves slowly to the natural exits of the body. In most people the cold will then concentrate in the fingers or toes and the colour of the rest of the hands or the feet will normalize again. The fingers and toes will be colder than before.
What is the nature of this cold-binqi? In the muscles a certain element is present that takes warmth away. I did some chemical research in my laboratory in Xinjiang related to the composition of this element. My research consisted of analysing two samples of blood from the same muscle, one taken before treatment and one after treatment. Seven people took part. I observed a change of volume of ammonium chloride in the blood: before treatment it was higher than normal and after treatment it was back to normal. only this kind of research has not been done with an enough large number of people so there has never been a scientific report of it. Ammonium chloride has a capacity to absorb warmth. A cooling down of a certain area of the body will diminish the blood circulation.
Damp-binqi (shi): The patient experiences damp-binqi as itching and pain. There will be swelling, infections in certain areas of the body and the skin can show different kinds of spots. During a buqi treatment the practitioner senses humidity and itching, and the patient can feel moisture leaving the body. Some patients can have a sticky kind of sweating that is accompanied with by a strong smell.
Damp-binqi can have different causes. In a very humid environment humidity can directly enter the body. External humidity can also be an indirect cause for a humid environment creates a higher pressure on the skin, which the natural elimination via the skin of different kinds of binqi (including damp). In some diseases, e.g. eczema, damp-binqi is a residue of reactions of the immune system.
Fire-binqi (huo): the pathogenic factor fire gives rise to a subjective sensation of heat in the patient as well as a radiating sensation of heat experienced by the practitioner.
During a treatment the patient can feel heat moving down towards the hands and feet and sometimes they can see strong red spots beneath the skin.
Fire-binqi is often linked with infections, both auto infections and exogenous infections.
Emotional binqi: The patient can feel this as fixed or wandering pain in the chest cavity or in other areas of the body. The patient can feel very sad, depressed or angry or may experience other kinds of emotion. During a buqi treatment, the practitioner will experience emotional binqi as a painful, tingling or electric sensation. Under the kin of the patient's hands, white blotches of gas may appear or a grey-blue colour.
Emotional binqi results from different kinds of emotion. To take an example, anger-binqi is a gas that accumulates in the body. It often concentrates in the diaphragm and can be painful, It may affect the organs that surround it such as the stomach, the liver, the gallbladder. It can also move and affect other parts of the body. In the case of anger a gas is produced, but other emotions might be attended with the appearance of other substances that nevertheless may accumulate in the body and cause disease.
- Dinitrogen monoxide or the laughing gas has an obvious effect on us, but there is no direct known function for it. On the other hand, nitrogen monoxide has many important biological tasks which overlap in part with the effects of the laughing gas.
- Dihydrongen sulfide or the rotten eggs gas is well known for its obnoxious smell and toxicity in concentrated quantities. The gas also has a small role in mammalian neuroregulation, so it does have recognized biological function. Is it involved with the sensation of nausea?
- Ammonia makes an interesting suspect because its formation is an endothermic process, i.e. it absorbs heat, thus it could contribute to the shivering response of fear. Ammonia gas and its ammonium ion have an important role in all animal metabolism.
Did anyone catch the news that last year two independent research teams found lymphatic veins inside mammalian brains, where there was thought to be none? I have noticed that some of the Wahnam Family members have medical professions. So far even with our advanced medical instruments the scientests have not been able to observe these gases in this hypothetic function. Consider it a chance to do something monumental for the Western medicine and earn a guaranteed Nobel Prize for Medicine if you succeed in confirming such a gas mechanism within the body through research.
With sincere respect,
Olli
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