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KMID : 0861120040080010155
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Korean Journal of Oriental Preventive Medicine
2004 Volume.8 No. 1 p.155 ~ p.161
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Qigong and Anti-aging
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Quan Xin-Yu
Lee Kyung-Sup
Nam Sang-Su
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Abstract
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The average life span is expanded due to the development of modem society, material and cultural life and increasing level of public health. This means that the aging society is rapidly progressing. Geniatric diseases also have increased due to increasing of the aged population. Along with an increase of the aged patient, the anti-aging, prevention of geniatric disease and quality of life is tending high on social concern and medical issues. Many reports showed the evidence to the positive anti-aging effect of Oriental medicine. Qigong therapy, a kind of Oriental medicine, has been used to prevent aging and life prolongation with positive effect for many thousand years. Therefore, qigong practice is popular and common to middle age and old age in China.
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KEYWORD
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Qigong, Anti-aging
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