What Is Chinese Image Medicine?
Mind-Image Medicine, also known as Image Medicine, is a branch of ancient Chinese medicine that explores the nature of the human body, the nature of Life itself, what an image is, and how images influence the human organism: its physical body, energy system, and information system.
Mind-Image Medicine is a modern healing method based on ancient wisdom, offering a unique approach to health that addresses the physical, energetic, and informational levels. It harmonizes the yin-yang balance within the body and opens a state of unity of being. In a healthy person, these layers are interconnected, influence one another, and support one another within a balanced and harmonious bioenergetic system.
As the name suggests, Mind-Image Medicine uses the power of mental images to diagnose and treat imbalances. When an imbalance or illness occurs, images appear that reflect areas of stagnation, stress, or energetic disturbance. These images can then be transformed in order to restore harmony in the body, energy, and mind. The methods also include releasing blocked energy pathways, revitalizing the system with new energy, and clearing areas where energy has become stagnant. This approach, trusted for thousands of years, is deeply rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Chinese Image Medicine, while being a modern and innovative direction in the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine, traces its roots back to the oldest and first medical school in the history of TCM — the “Bian Que School,” founded by the great Chinese physician Bian Que (407–310 BC).
In Chinese, Image Medicine is called 意象医学. The characters refer to mind, consciousness and thought, followed by picture or image, while the final two characters mean medicine. Taken together, the expression “Yi Xiang Yi Xue” means a form of medicine based on image-oriented thinking that studies and applies images for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Image Medicine uses the ability of the mind and consciousness to work with images.
Health means the absence of a destructive image; imbalance or illness manifests itself in the form of an image. An image may represent anything from past experiences and stress to stagnant energy or weakened organs. Since the body is an interconnected system, any disturbance eventually affects different levels. Image Medicine seeks to identify and address the underlying cause of an imbalance. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, it goes deeper in an effort to bring all levels of being into alignment.
Each consultation is individual and includes discussion aimed at understanding the client’s unique life history, relationships, and flow of energy. Imbalances are often associated with energetic blockages in the body’s meridians, which are carefully addressed during treatment. Image Medicine is a creative and deeply individualized process, making every session unique for each person. Non-invasive and described as free from side effects, it can easily complement other treatment methods.
Today, Image Medicine is taught by Professor Xu Mingtang at the Kundawell Medical Research Institute in Beijing. The institute is an internationally known centre for the treatment and study of chronic diseases, with an experienced team that combines traditional and modern approaches within Chinese medicine. Today, Image Medicine is practised in more than 50 countries.
Image Medicine is closely connected with the practice of Zhong Yuan Qigong. Image Medicine is used to help address a range of imbalances and illnesses, from the roots of energetic blockages to the symptoms they may produce.
More than twenty-six years of research and practical application of Chinese Image Medicine have identified, among the health problems said to respond most effectively to this approach, conditions such as chronic bronchitis, asthma, chronic inflammation of the prostate, chronic kidney inflammation, herniated discs, impotence, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, female and male infertility, various chronic diseases of the stomach and intestines, Crohn’s disease, eye diseases, high blood pressure, after-effects of heart attacks, and others.
At the Kundawell Institute, research is conducted into complex and difficult-to-treat diseases such as viral diseases, muscular dystrophies, various disorders of the nervous system, diabetes, and cancer. According to the principles of Chinese Image Medicine, its methods of research and treatment are described as having no side effects, allowing early diagnosis, and combining well with other treatment methods.
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Anna Pisareva