Why the oldest diagnostic language in the world still describes something modern medicine is only beginning to measure.
Qi is often translated as energy, which does the concept a disservice. It is closer to function — the capacity of a system to do its work.
When a physician reads your pulse, they are reading rate, depth, tension and quality across six positions. It is a remarkably high-resolution reading of the cardiovascular and autonomic state.
Modern heart-rate-variability research describes something strikingly similar. The instruments differ; the observation does not.
At Hong Feng, we hold both languages at once — the classical reading and the modern measurement — and let them inform one another.
Written by
Dr. Lin Wei Ming
