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According to oriental medical-management, Chi composes the relevant nervous points on the meridians for awakening
Prebirth Chi (or innate Chi), and Postbirth Chi. The former is them to work again so that the Chi may flow normally as
genetic from parents, begins when the fertilized egg in the previous. This is the work of acupuncture, acupressure and
mother’s fetus. This is Yang Chi. When children are born, Gigong Breathing.
they inhale oxygen from outside, absorb nutrients from
foods, that’s Postbirth Chi that children absorbed nutrients The Tai Chi Chuan activates the arthrosis, the whole body,
from Heaven and Earth and environment surrounding. That as stream constantly drifting, moves gently along the
is Yin-Chi, whose effect is to maintain and to supplement rhythm of natural breathing, whose effect is to open the
the Prebirth Chi. This Yin Chi combines with Prebirth Chi impasses in the nervous points of meridians, and thus
to form Jing-Chi which is the real Chi accumulated in the facilitates the Chi circulating throughout the body,
kidneys and genitalia, flowed in the meridians and in the six penetrates into the six internal organs and the five viscera.
internal organs (stomach, gall, urinary bladder, small In doing so, because the Chi’s transportation makes blood
intestine, large intestine, three parts of stomach) as well as flowing. Chi associates with blood, like Ging with Chi, so
in the five viscera (heart, liver, stomach, lungs, kidneys). they usually call Jing-Chi and Chi-Blood as the pairs.
This real Chi mainly circulates through The Front and the
Back Channel which relate to the innards organs. This is The diaphragm divides those both Chi, the Prebirth Chi and
called Small Heavenly Circle which joins with twelve the Postbirth Chi, illustrated as below (fig: 5):
meridians to form Great Heavenly Cycle (Fig. 7).

Contrary to the blood circulatory system operating under
unchangeable cycle, which transports Yin and Yang in
metabolic harmony like the change of natural phenomena

such as hot and cold, light and dark, day and night, month
and year, weather through four seasons, etc... , Chi is seen (Fig: 5)
as a sort of power that the nervous system as an interlaced
power network. If the nervous system is malfunctioned or
broken down, such as suffered from spinal trauma, then Chi
unable to circulate normally for transporting energy Energy Center generates its Chi throughout the body, is
throughout the body, and if at some time, the flow of Chi is located deep in the abdominal cavity, below the navel about
accidentally blocked, then the organs will not fulfill their 3 knuckles, considered as a tank of Chi, where the first
functions, causing sickness, disease, mild or severe convergence of Prebirth Chi, i.e. “Lower Dan Dien”, known
depending on the damage or loss of Chi. They will stimulate as Dan Dien (fig. 6), means field of medicine herbs. In the

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