Characteristics of Shaolin Chan Medicine

Characteristics and therapies of Shaolin Chan medicine can be classified into three types: Kungfu therapy; dietary therapy; Chan therapy.

Kungfu therapy: Ba Duan Jin(eight trigrams boxing), Chan boxing, Jin boxing and other Chan regimens guide Kungfu therapy; Yi Jin Jing and Xi Sui Jing recover human original simplicity, know the essence of the design of human body deeply and start up source of life.

Dietary therapy: medicine and dietary is from the same root; distinguish the five cereals and vegetables and fruits; use four properties and five tastes and meridian distribution as well as five movements and six climates; dredge the channel of the viscera; prevent disease enters by the mouth; balance diet therapy and diet methods. Diet therapy also includes retreating and being moderate in eating, comprehensive toxin-eliminating therapy, adjusting to convenient formatting and so on.

Chan therapy: Chan mozhao regimen. This therapy goes for the heart, seeks for ignorance and afflictions, the cause and source of disease as well as understands the mind and sees the disposition. Collecting the mind with Chan therapy, improving the physical fitness with Kungfu therapy and regulating the body with diet therapy are the most distinguishing feature of Chan medicine. Contemporary Shaolin Chan masters increasingly accumulate experiences during the process of practicing Chan, practicing medicine and training Kungfu, and combine them with new Chan medicine created by traditional Chinese medicine on the base of Buddhist medical science, which is the highest level of human medicine. (From Shaolin Encyclopedia)