Chinese Image
Medicine (CIM) is a modern, innovative branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine
(TCM), which follows the ancient concepts taught by the legendary Chinese healers
Bien Chue (407–310 B.C.) and Hua Tuo.
The direction of
CIM was developed by Professor Xu Mingtang, the founder of Beijing Medical
Research Kundawell Institute, director of the Kundawell Institute of America in
Seattle, USA, deputy chairman of the World Academic Society of Medical Qigong, who created the modern doctrine of Image
Medicine.
The Chinese language term for Image Medicine is 意象医学 (Yi Xiang Yi
Xue), where Yi means mind,
consciousness, thought; Xiang – picture, image; Yi Xue - medicine.
Thus, the combination of words "Yi Xiang Yi
Xue" means that this type of medicine elicits mental images for
diagnostics, treatment, and prevention of diseases.
According to Chinese
philosophy and medicine, a man is more than his physical body, and consists of
3 components: material body, energy, and soul/information or consciousness. The
famous Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote: “Body is the vessel of life, energy
is the foundation of life, spirit is the guide of life; if one of them does not
perform its role, the others will suffer. Therefore, positive results are
achieved when the spirit leads and body follows, while the opposite brings
harm.”
Modern instruments confirm
what was known to ancient Chinese healers, in that every living cell is
surrounded by a specific biofield. Mental images are biomagnetic fields that
are instantly recognized by our brains. A healthy organ has its characteristic
biofield, enabling the observation of disorders at all three levels of
existence. For this purpose, practitioners of CIM use special methods for
developing the sensitivity of hands, body, and the ability of inner vision. This
approach occasionally even reveals the causes of disease beyond the physical
body.
Western medicine studies
matter (substance), but ignores the links between the information, energy, and
physical aspects, and thus cannot explain and affect many processes.
The high effectiveness and
unique capabilities of Image Medicine is based on the fact that the diagnosis
and treatment are performed by taking into account all three components and
thus act on these three levels. The main goal of the method is to find and
eliminate the main causes of disease, instead of battling the symptoms,
especially because each patient is unique and the treatment therefore must be strictly
personalized.
Treatment with the methods of
CIM allow to change the information component of patient, while adjusting the
energy and physical components, through using mental image of the disease and
changing it. When the body receives correct information and sufficient energy,
the organism activates all of its resources and abilities towards regeneration,
and achieves healing.
The large amount of
experience gained over 26 years of CIM research and
practice has proved that this method can be effectively used for the treatment
of the following conditions: asthma, chronic bronchitis, herniated discs,
hypertension, various chronic gastrointestinal disorders, Crohn’s disease,
chronic prostatitis, impotence, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, female and
male infertility, chronic nephritis, eye diseases, recovery after cardiac
infarction, stroke, and other conditions.
The research topics at
the Kundawell institute also include difficult or incurable viral infections,
muscular dystrophy, various diseases of the nervous system, diabetes, and
oncological conditions.
The methods of treatment
used in Image Medicine are remarkable by their lack of side effects,
complementarity with other therapeutic approaches, effective diagnostic potential
at early stages of diseases even in the absence of pronounced symptoms.
The discipline of CIM
continues to attract increasing attention and recognition. Specialists who have
received training at the Kundawell Institute already are working in more than
50 countries worldwide, helping their patients to activate their own abilities
of self-regulation, to regain their lost health and to renew great quality of
life.