Qi - The Art of Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has long since arrived in the West. To find out more about the roots of this millennia-old science we go on a journey through the People's Republic of China and to the people who practice TCM today: family doctors who pass on their knowledge and secret recipes from generation to generation, acupuncturists who cure chronic illnesses or natural healers whose ancient recipes can make bones grow back together again. They are all masters of their profession, and their patients travel from all over Southeast Asia to see them. Together they open up to us an authentic, deep insight into how the traditional healing methods actually work. They are all based on 'Qi' the mysterious, Chinese life force. The search for the source of 'Qi' takes us to a remote province of China, to a village doctor of the Akha minority. Or to one of the last Daoist monasteries in the Wudang Mountains, where since the 1980s the nuns are now permitted to practice their 'internal kung fu' once again.
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