Dangers of Chi Kung?

Question

Right, as some of you may know, Chi Kung can be used for health, etc. But today I was talking to someone about it, and they said it's very dangerous. What are the dangers of Chi Kung?

Answer 1

Qi can be catorgorised into two main categories. Xian Tian and Hou Tian.

Xian Tian is the qi that flows within your body from birth. Chinese physicians controls the flow of these qi to different parts of your five main organ(in chinese medicine, there is only five main organs) which is refered as the five element: Jin(metal), Mu(Wood), Shui(Water), Huo(Fire), Tu(Earth).

Emotions and health are believed to be greatly affected by how well each organ functions.

Hou tian qi refers to qi developed by training, either by breathing or manipulation of qi to different parts of body. The 'ki' refered in karate means the same thing.

Qi gong means skills and efforts in qi. Qi gong can be further broken down to two main stream, the hard and the soft.

Usually the dangerous part is the hard qi gong. They are found in traditional training of hong jia quan, nam quan and most karate styles. Mostly used as offensive or hard defence. When executing a move with hard qi, the qi is believed to be gather in one big lump. Losing control of it will cause the qi to burst in different directions, somewat like an explosion in the body. It may cause vessels or organs to burst. Well, I've not seen that before. But I had experienced a sudden moment of breathlessness when i was practising one inch punch.

There are things to take note. When practising, it is wise to prevent transfering any qi during 11am to 1pm and 11 pm to 1am. It is believed that these are the time when the qi in your body is most unstable.

You must not slap a guy transfering qi in the back. Cuz this will add in much more pressure to the lump of qi that guy, causing te body to take internal injuries.

Internal injuries, be it caused by qi gong or ilnesses, can be identified from the blood vessels in the white part of your eyes.

Many practicers almost always mistake that soft qi gong will not cause internal injuries. Practising combative tai chi and white crane can cause internal injuries if not done properly. I had something like a lung rupture when i was practising white crane.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Every sort of internal injury can occur, including (as the other poster noted) delusions and insanity. But such a terrible outcome is unlikely. Chi Kung is more likely to have almost no effect whatsoever.

Answer 3

Well supposedly, Chi Kung is a method of exercising your internal organs by promoting proper circulation of chi thru out your body to strengthen them thereby leading to better health due to proper digestion, respiration and circulation. And like external muscles, if improperly done, exercises could lead to injury thereby affecting the organ's function. Since internal organs like the liver, kidney, lungs and the heart are far more sensitive compared to external muscles, the damage wrought to the organs by improper application of exercises could be dangerous and may lead to severe illness and complications.

Answer 4

Any Martial Art you study will have a degree of danger to it, the injury factor will always be there, especially if you don't perform the techniques you'll learn properly. A good Martial Arts school should have a clean and friendly atmosphere. and instructors that want to help you to become the best Martial Artist you can be. and they shouldn't hassle you about contracts and such. There isn't a "Best fit" type of Martial Art for people with a certain height, weight, body type, or personality, etc. Nor is there a such thing as a "best Martial Art" because they all have their own strengths and weaknesses Any Martial Art you study is going to help you learn better balance, better coordination, speed in your technique, and power in your techniques; but these are attributes that are products of GOOD and PROPER training. all you need to do dude is find out what schools are available to you, and choose at least three that interest you the most, watch a couple of their classes to see if you want to take up some trial classes (up to a weeks worth without being hassled to sign a contract). If you like the school, then enroll in it. Any Martial Art is going to show you how to utilize your body by learning self defense. You just need to find a Martial Arts School that will provide a safe environment for you and your parents agree on it. You are right about studying a particular discipline. because it DOESN'T MATTER because there is NO discipline that is better than another. What matters is that you feel comfortable (and like the classes) in the classes and you feel comfortable that the instructor can properly teach you self defense and not have the "smoke and mirrors" aspect. and that the instructor likes to do it more for the teaching aspect rather than the "making money" which it is a business to make money but it should not be the only reason for teaching the discipline. just watch out for school's that're a "McDojo's" or "belt factory" type of school. these schools usually do a lot of boasting about how soon their students make their 1st degree black belts (like having several "young black belts" that're usually 9 or 10 yr old kids, which should be a rare thing to see unless the child started learning the discipline when they were 4 yrs old), and often boast about students making their black belts in about a year’s time (which it should be up to 5 years or better) which often means that they have a high student turnout rate. They'll also often try to get you to commit to a contract, usually one that's 6 months long or more or try to get you to pay down a large sum of money for that kind of time period. which is a BIG red flag These schools will also brag about how many tournaments their students have entered and placed in or won a trophy. While Tournaments are good to go to and test your own skills as a point sparring contestant, but competitions are the LEAST important aspect to concern yourself with in Martial Arts. Long story short, these schools will basically "give" you your belt ranks every few months as long as you are paying the outrageous fees per month, and you won't really learn self defense. there's always going to be schools that think their Martial Art is the best, but that's been going on for hundreds of years and it's no different today. Unfortunately it will continue, until these people realize the discipline they study isn't better than any other. "lineage" shouldn't be a big concern unless the instructors can't tell you about the history of the discipline and who they learned it from or what affiliation the school has with a national organization. Sparring should be a basic and integral part of your training, because it should help you with your timing and use of the techniques you learn.

Answer 5

None, it's even less dangerous than Tai Chi (yin styles).

If any kung fu conditioning is dangerous, it's iron palm, and mostly because it's done improperly.

Answer 6

I had a friend who did chi Kung, but she didn't dissipate the chi properly.
So like it all built up in her head.
And it melted her brain.
Boom!
Her brain is all liquid, and right now she's just a drooling babbling idiot.


And my friend's name is...
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Paris Hilton!
Oh yeah! Boo-yah! He shoots - he scores!