Medical Qigong is an ancient Chinese healing art that addresses health conditions at the energetic level. When areas requiring treatment are difficult to reach physically, or when all other therapeutic approaches have been exhausted, Medical Qigong provides a powerful alternative for healing and restoration.
Doc Blackstone is a master of Chinese Medical Qigong with over 35 years of experience in energy medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. His expertise makes him uniquely qualified to provide this profound form of healing to San Antonio patients.
Medical Qigong (pronounced “chee-gong”) is one of the four main branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine, alongside acupuncture, herbal medicine, and Tui Na massage. It is a sophisticated system of energy healing that works with Qi (vital life force energy) to restore balance, remove blockages, and promote natural healing.
Unlike self-practice Qigong exercises that individuals perform for their own wellness, Medical Qigong therapy involves a trained practitioner using their cultivated energy to treat patients. This is often called “external Qi emission” or “energy healing.”
For over 4,000 years, Chinese medicine has recognized that health depends on the smooth, balanced flow of Qi through the body’s meridian system. When Qi becomes blocked, deficient, or excessive, illness and pain result. Medical Qigong addresses these energetic imbalances directly.
Master practitioners like Doc Blackstone undergo years of intensive training and personal cultivation to develop the sensitivity and skill required to:
Organs, tissues, the brain or energetic pathways are difficult or impossible to access through needles, manual therapy, or other physical modalities.
When acupuncture, structural work, herbal medicine, and conventional treatments have provided limited results, Medical Qigong can access deeper healing mechanisms.
Some conditions have primarily energetic origins that require energetic solutions for complete resolution.
Patients who are too weak, sensitive, or compromised for more invasive therapies can benefit from this gentle yet powerful approach.
When illness has significant emotional, psychological, or spiritual dimensions that physical treatment alone cannot address.
Multi-systemic or idiopathic diseases that have defied conventional diagnosis and treatment.
Doc Blackstone typically recommends Medical Qigong therapy when:
Medical Qigong can be effective for a remarkably wide range of health conditions. Doc Blackstone has successfully used Medical Qigong therapy to treat:
Doc Blackstone happens to be one of the rare practitioners with a multitude of skills that he has honed over the course of many decades- each into a finely tuned tool for healing. He is particularly known for his success treating idiopathic diseases—conditions of unknown origin where conventional medicine offers no clear path forward. Medical Qigong can be a game-changer precisely when all other therapies have been exhausted.
“Sometimes areas that require treatment are much harder to reach physically. Energetic therapy at the hands of an experienced practitioner can be a real game changer where all other therapies have been exhausted.” – Doc Blackstone
Medical Qigong therapy is profoundly different from other healing modalities you may have experienced:
Assessment Phase: Doc begins by sensing the flow and quality of Qi throughout your body’s meridian system. Using highly developed energetic perception, he identifies areas of blockage, depletion, or excess that are contributing to your condition.
Qi Emission: Through specific hand positions, movements, and intention, Doc projects therapeutic Qi into your body. You may experience this as warmth, tingling, coolness, subtle vibration, or simply deep relaxation. Some patients feel energy moving through their bodies; others simply notice a sense of peace and wellbeing.
Energetic Techniques: Doc employs various Medical Qigong methods including:
Integration Time: After treatment, you’ll typically rest quietly, allowing the energetic shifts to integrate throughout your system. This is when much of the healing work occurs.
Each experience is unique. Everyone responds differently based on their condition, sensitivity, and what their body needs at that moment. Patients describe a wide variety of experiences during Medical Qigong treatment. For example:
While Medical Qigong has been practiced successfully for millennia, modern research is beginning to understand its mechanisms:
Studies have documented that Qigong masters can emit measurable electromagnetic fields from their hands, with frequencies in ranges associated with tissue healing and pain relief.
Research shows Medical Qigong can shift the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic (stress) to parasympathetic (healing) dominance, creating optimal conditions for recovery.
The human biofield—an organizing energy field surrounding and interpenetrating the body—is increasingly recognized by researchers. Medical Qigong works directly with this field to promote healing.
Studies suggest that Qi emission may influence cellular communication, gene expression, and the body’s subtle regulatory systems that conventional medicine is only beginning to understand.
“The fact that we cannot fully measure or explain something doesn’t make it any less real or effective. Patients experience profound healing through Medical Qigong, often when nothing else has worked. That’s what matters.” – Doc Blackstone
Acupuncture uses needles (or in Doc’s case, needle-free techniques) to stimulate specific points and meridians. Medical Qigong works with the entire energy field and can address areas and conditions that points-based therapies cannot fully reach. Doc often combines both approaches for comprehensive healing.
While various energy healing traditions exist, Medical Qigong is distinguished by:
Medical Qigong mastery requires much more than learning techniques—it demands years of personal cultivation, disciplined practice, and development of energetic sensitivity and power. Doc trained personally with the well known Qigong master Li Jun Feng learning Sheng Zhen Wuji Yuan Gong and associated methods.
Doc has devoted more than three decades to mastering Traditional Chinese Medicine, including intensive study of Medical Qigong Taoist Qigong training as taught by Dr, Jerry Alan Johnson. Additional formal training provided by Master Li Jun Feng (Sheng Zhen Wuji Yuan Gong).
Before formal TCM training, Doc spent 20 years studying martial arts and Chinese Medicine with numerous teachers, which provided the foundation for understanding and cultivating Qi. Many Medical Qigong masters come from martial arts backgrounds where energy work is fundamental.
His education at the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin included Medical Qigong as part of comprehensive Traditional Chinese Medicine studies.
Doc maintains a rigorous personal Qigong practice, continuously refining his ability to sense, cultivate, and emit therapeutic Qi.
Unlike practitioners who only practice Medical Qigong, Doc’s mastery of needle-free acupuncture, structural alignment, and other healing arts allows him to combine treatments for optimal results.
Medical Qigong is rarely used in isolation. Doc typically integrates it with other therapeutic approaches:
The perfect combination: vital energy is applied to specific acupuncture points to tonify or purge meridians while Medical Qigong works with the broader energy field and hard-to-reach areas.
Physical structural work combined with energetic rebalancing provides both mechanical and energetic correction for comprehensive healing.
Each major internal organ is associated with an emotion. For conditions with significant emotional components, combining energetic work with emotional release techniques addresses the physical, energetic and psychological dimensions required to positively influence balanced organ function.
Chinese herbs work from the inside while Medical Qigong works energetically, creating synergistic healing effects.
Your initial Medical Qigong treatment includes comprehensive consultation and assessment. Doc will discuss your health history, examine your energetic patterns, and begin treatment. Many patients notice immediate shifts—feeling lighter, more relaxed, or experiencing pain relief.
Most conditions require multiple sessions for significant results. Acute issues may improve in 3-5 treatments, while chronic conditions typically need 8-12 or more sessions. Medical Qigong works cumulatively—each session builds on previous ones.
Initially, weekly sessions are often recommended to build momentum. As improvement occurs, frequency may decrease to bi-weekly or monthly maintenance.
Beyond addressing specific conditions, regular Medical Qigong treatment promotes:
Medical Qigong is often most powerful precisely when it seems most needed—when conventional and even alternative therapies have failed to provide relief. If you’ve been told “nothing more can be done” or you’re facing chronic illness that defies treatment, Medical Qigong may offer hope where other approaches have fallen short.
Medical Qigong is often most powerful precisely when it seems most needed—when conventional and even alternative therapies have failed to provide relief. If you’ve been told “nothing more can be done” or you’re facing chronic illness that defies treatment, Medical Qigong may offer hope where other approaches have fallen short.
Doc Blackstone specializes in complex, mysterious, and chronic conditions. His mastery of Medical Qigong, combined with his comprehensive knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine, gives him unique tools to address health challenges that stump other practitioners.
While many patients initially seek Medical Qigong for specific health problems, they often discover unexpected benefits that transform their overall quality of life:
Medical Qigong doesn’t just treat disease—it cultivates wellness at the deepest levels of being.
True Medical Qigong masters are rare, especially in the United States. The level of training, personal cultivation, and dedication required means most acupuncturists and TCM practitioners do not offer this therapy. Finding a qualified master like Doc Blackstone in San Antonio is genuinely fortunate.
If you’re facing a condition that hasn’t responded to other treatments, or if you sense your healing needs go deeper than physical intervention alone, Medical Qigong may be exactly what you’ve been seeking.
When physical approaches have reached their limits, energetic healing can access deeper levels of restoration. Doc Blackstone’s 35+ years of mastery in Medical Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine offer hope for even the most challenging conditions.
Located in Alamo Heights, serving all of San Antonio and beyond. Schedule your Medical Qigong consultation today.
Medical Qigong works beautifully in combination with Doc’s other specialized treatments: