Gilles Marin - Healing from Within with Chi Nei Tsang: Applied Chi Kung in Internal Organs Treatment

Reading Gilles Marins book, Healing from Within with Chi Nei Tsang, brings me back to my twenties, in Thailand, when I first encountered a type of abdominal massage which I later named Chi Nei Tsang: Internal Organs Chi Massage.

My uncle had a debilitating pain behind his shoulder blade that sent him from doctor to doctor without hope of ever getting better. He was finally told that the only thing conventional medicine could do for him was exploratory surgery without any guarantee of improvement.

Friends told me about Dr. Mui, a traditional healer who was performing miracles using a form of traditional Chinese and Thai healing massage. He was the last member of a long lineage of healers who had virtually disappeared after the Chinese cultural revolution and the advent of antibiotics. Like my own parents he had fled revolution-torn China for peaceful Thailand.

Dr. Mui made my uncle lie on his back and started to poke around his navel with one finger for a long time even though my uncle kept repeating to him that it was his shoulder that was in pain. After an hour the old man asked my uncle to stand up and move around. My uncle stood up and an astonished look came upon his face: the pain in his shoulder blade was greatly relieved.

I was very impressed and immediately asked him to teach me his technique. He answered that it was not possible, that it takes too long to learn, and that he could offer very little instruction other than showing the fact that it works. Nevertheless, I begged to assist him with his long line of patients. Day after day for the next three years, until his death at the age of eighty-two, I helped him with domestic chores and patients; I witnessed miraculous healing experiences. I saw countless cases of suffering cured before my eyes. Some people came in wheelchairs to get treatment and would come out pushing their own wheelchairs.

Dr. Mui never gave any explanations. Sometimes he took my hand and let me feel a lump or a tension that needed to be worked on. He showed me some of his drawings of the meridian system, the flow of blood and chi, and the nerve pathways. I worked hard every day to try to understand what made his patients better. I even went to the Chulalongkorn University Hospital in Bangkok to learn gross anatomy through dissecting cadavers. Only after years of dedicated practice was I able to understand the principles of this form of healing.

I have taught these principles through my books and classes for many years, and I am glad that this teaching is finding its way to a new generation. Gilless clear explanations of previously esoteric practices establish an indispensable link between Traditional Oriental Medicine and the modern mind.