Body practices and health: some contributions of traditional chinese medicine to the brazilian context

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Gilbert de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno de Educação Física e Esporte
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/cadernoedfisica/article/view/28260
• topic: Prática Corporal.; Medicina Tradicional Chinesa.; Saúde Humana.; Qigong.; Body Practice.; Traditional Chinese Medicine.; Human Health.; Qigong.

OBJECTIVE: This essay presents some particularities and contributions of traditional Chinese medicine and its therapeutic body practices to the Brazilian context. The objective is to present the benefits and potentialities of the concept of body movement present in therapeutic body practices associated with traditional Chinese medicine, especially in qigong and its school of wuqinxi.DEVELOPMENT: It is an essay whose theoretical basis defends the argument that qigong is based on a concept of movement that is not tied to the principle of physical effort and exhaustion, presenting a concept of therapeutic body practice that is more appropriate to the context of health. The work originated the following categories of analysis and discussion: 1 - Traditional chinese medicine and body practice, which exposes some specificities of the way in which medical rationality approaches the body, health and body practice; 2 - Body practices of traditional Chinese medicine, which presents some notions, techniques and contributions of taijiquan and qigong body exercises in the context of human health; 3 - The game of five animals, which exhibits some principles and benefits of wuqinxi qigong body practice; 4 - Contribution of traditional Chinese medicine to the field of body practices, which exposes a conception of body practice that is not compatible with the principle of physical effort and exhaustion; 5 - Favorable factors for the applicability of qigong, which highlights the main advantages of using this technique in public health spaces in Brazil.CONCLUSION: Traditional Chinese medicine and its therapeutic body practices present techniques and principles that can contribute to a particular way of dealing with the body and with care through movement. Therefore, it is opportune to promote these practices in the context of public health, in order to contribute to the promotion of the health of the Brazilian population.