Dr. Chen Is Learning Qi-Kong, The Quantum Chemistry Way

When I came to Taiwan about a year ago, I meant to learn Japanese in Taiwan. I brought Japanese-English dictionaries and several textbooks along hoping to find a learning environment to improve my Japanese.

I did not learn Japanese here; instead I learn Qi-Kong.

I started practicing Qi-Kong about 6 months ago. I have morning swimming habit. Every morning asI walked to my bicycle parking place and about to bike to the pool, I see a group of people practicing Qi-Kong. The banner said that this is a 'free' Qi-Kong learning group.

Out of curiosity, I started practicing Qi-Kong with them, first 30 minutes then 60 minutes. Recently, because I have few health problems, I practice Qi-Kong more, increaseing practice time from 60 minutes to 90 minutes.

The Qi-Kong group knows about I am returning to the U.S. in July. One of the coaches, Tong Juei-Lan 童菊蘭, is so nice to give me practice CDs, books, and individual coach. She also loaned me a book, entitled, "The melody of Qi. 氣的樂章", (authored by Wang Wei-Kong 王唯工, Locus Publishing Company, 0800-006689, NT $300) which describes the circulation of blood is a mathematical 'resonance' problem. This bears great analogy to the quantum chemistry that Dr. Chen has taught for years. I will write several notes to share my understanding of the Qi-Kong with my readers in the next few post.

Dr. Wang was a physics major before practicing Chinese medicine. He received a Ph.D degree from the Johns Hopkin University.

The resonance theory explains how the heart pumps the blood through arteries and capillaries, delivering nutrients to organs, and circulating the blood back to the heart via veins. Conventional fluid dynamics theory cannot explain the efficiency of such blood circulation because the blood flow resistance through the capillaries and organs would be too great. Artificial hears developed recently and have an average power of 30 watts can only pump a stable blood flow of few milli-liters per second which is insufficient for physiological functions. Instead, distribution of blood to various organs is transmitted through the resonance mechanism. Each organ (liver, kidney, etc) vibrates with a characteristic set of standing waves and when the frequency of the organ vibration is in sync with one of the vibration modes of the heart vibration, the circulation frequency is mostly efficient. Qi-Kong practice is to use mental focus and physical exercise to tune frequencies of various cavities 穴道 to achieve the better blood circulation in the body.

I will elaborate more on this in next few posts. But the point here is that the concept of harmonics of the standing waves is the same as the concept of orbital, or quantum states in the quantum chemistry. Because I am aware of this theory, I am learning Qi-Kong with a greater appreciation.

Qi-Kong practice group group photo is on the top. . Ms. Tong is the woman standing in the middle of the last row.