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Chronic DiseasesCentral to Traditional Chinese Medicine is an understanding of chi, the Chinese name for a person's life energy or vital life force. "We (in the west) didn't grow up with a concept like chi," notes Nancy Floy, who teaches at the Midwest Center for the Study of Oriental Medicine, "but in the East they don't think of it as a mystical or magical thing. It's a substance in the body just like blood. The blood flows through vessels and the chi flows through the meridians.: |