Qigong isn't necessarily an "instant cure" for anything (though it can be in some cases). The idea is that it corrects imbalances or deficiencies in the body's energetic system, which then allows the body to heal itself. Now, there are many kinds of qigong and different forms for different purposes, but it goes back thousands of years in China and there are entire qigong hospitals in China based around these techniques.
There aren't going to be a lot of double-blind randomized trials out here because it is unorthodox enough to Western medicine that 1. it's going to be hard to get funding, and 2. even with great results, it's going to be hard to get published --- too many people assume it's rubbish from the outset and aren't open to looking at it.
As for healing, I have spoken to many people who have had personal health benefits from qigong ---yes, I know it's anecdotal, but you can only hear so many people recount the health benefits they felt before thinking there might be something to it. These health benefits range from something as small as having more energy in the morning to serious improvements in depression, to
stage 3 cancers simply disappearing (yes, really, and in more than one case). Will everyone have a "miracle healing"? No, but most people will feel an effect to some degree.
After I received the energy, my hay fever improved dramatically, my chronic lung issues improved radically, and my emotional state shifted, all within a few minutes --- I spent the next week feeling absolutely fantastic.
Someone else may have links to good experimental results for qigong. My experiments have been doing it and feeling the results in myself.
Yes, you are totally correct that there's no reason to believe everything you read on the internet.
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Originally Posted by toasterwater  Fair enough, but wouldn't you agree that it's naive to believe anything you hear or read on the internet? I could tell you that pissing in your cereal every morning builds immunity against disease, but I doubt you would experiment with that.
But to be fair, I'll keep an open mind.
So this technique is supposed to be able to cure real illnesses right? Just because you felt "as if someone were reaching inside your body and 'shifting things around'" doesn't really prove anything. Nor does your belief that there were no "placebo" or other psychological affects at work. Tell me about someone who was cured of a real illness this way. I think if evidence like that really existed it would be well known.
And I do apologize for calling it dumb. That wasn't very nice. Please provide some actual evidence that this works. |