Chi
Kung Culture Society of TAIPEI
Before we begin practicing chikung for the first time, we may need a special diet because our body is so weak that we are not able to absorb the proper nutrition through the proper channel. After we practice chikung, our internal system will be much strengthened so the basic function of our digestive system including the absorption, transformation, filtration, and expellation of poison will be much stronger. We can turn a typically ordinary daily diet into useful food from which we are able to absorb perfectly the vitamins, minerals, proteins and carbohydrates we need. Therefore, it is not necessary for us to take any kind of health food to strengthen our system after practicing chikung.
Health food presents a potentially dangerous problem in that it can interrupt our metabolism in a way that nobody can detect. Health food acts like a drug which stimulates our systems and makes them work faster so as to create the phenomena that we are getting stronger. Actually, this phenomena may only be a temporary hyper situation. After that, more trouble may emerge because our metabolism and circulation systems are effected by the health food - a problem which is still beyond the control of modern medicine. This is similar to what happens when we use heroin or other drugs which stimulate our brain, causing hallucinations which finally lead to the disintegration of our body.
Another way of looking at the effect of using health food is to consider the moral of the Faust legend. Dr. Faust paid the devil with his soul in exchange for information which was beyond normal human command. Therefore, before we totally understand the advantages and disadvantages of using health food, we should avoid using them.
Eating a modified vegetarian diet is okay as long as it is a balanced and complete diet which includes some animal protein like milk and cheese, eggs, fish. The safest course to follow in eating is to eat a wide variety of ordinary food as well as include regular practice of chikung.
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