Health and Wellness: Relief, Rehab, Renew

Qi...What fuel to use: Original Qi or Fu Qi? In TCM, we are taught that we are born with Original Qi. Original Qi might be compared to our original battery which might be our mineral content, or bone quality / structure. Original Qi is acquired from our parents. If parents are healthy and strong, they produce a health, strong baby. They pass on a good battery or bone quality (Original Qi)   Our goal is to keep all our Original Qi for as long as we are able. Qi gives us energy/fuel to think clearly, for our muscles to contract and relax, support hormones, grow, maintain and restore structures / bones/tendons/ligaments, etc.   We expend Qi (energy/minerals) whenever we move, think, repair or process but we want to use a different type of Qi for that. TCM calls it “Fu Qi” (food qi / food energy).   We think of Original Qi (original battery) as our life span. Food is like the alternator in a car…restoring the original battery. FuQi Fuel or Original Batter...

I was eating at a breakfast place today and overheard a guy going on about his upcoming surgery for cancer were they were going to take out his gallbladder and part of his liver. He was so grateful that it was going to be a short month recovery and how good the doctors were. Apparently they had been watching it grow for years and now was the time to take it out. It struck me how the medical profession makes us so grateful to take out parts of our body. They have us believing that surgery is the best scenario. Patients seem to like the idea that everything will be alright after the surgery. How lucky they are to have such wonderful doctors, who will take their body parts, replace them with manmade parts, or not replace them at all, just restrict their diet, since they will not be able to digest once the gallbladder is gone. It got me thinking about airlines and how they make us believe the reward of paying more, is boarding early, and then having to sit and wait inside the stuffy pl...