Turning now to qi gong and internal martial arts one must look at the legacy of traditional chinese medicine and how each practitioner can have healing prowess not just scientific knowledge like western doctors do a doctor who has no experience in qi gong or internal martial arts is a dubious man since all healers have some martial arts training and likewise many martial artists know the basics such as hatha yoga pranayama meditation self massage and fasting this knowledge is worth the effort it takes to read up and practice on your own