Regiment Qigong that controls the body, breathing and mind is used in Chinese traditional culture for the purpose of strengthening the mind and body and development of subconscious abilities. Recently, Regiment Qigong is appearing as one part of an alternative medicine practice for everyday health in various places all over the world. However, we just begun the scientific elucidation the mechanism of a Regiment Qigong. We concentrated on the adjustment of respiration that is one element of a three controls (above) in Regiment Qigong and defined breath exponent and analyzed the abdominal breathing of two masters of Nai Yang Gong, Qiang Zhuang Gong and Six-Word Practice of Qigong. As a result, we measured the characters of abdominal respiration in the masters and beginners of Regiment Qigong in order to confirm the quality of four required elements (length, depth, thinness, and equilibrium) in controlling the abdominal breathing. We were able to confirm that abdominal respiration during Regiment Qigong was deep and length. During Regiment Qigong, it was also observed that the difference between the inhaling and exhaling for the master was larger than that of the beginner. In conclusion it was possible to develop a respiration exponent unit qualitative and quantitative analysis of abdominal breathing, and was possible to discuss the health giving properties of abdominal respiration and establish an evaluation index

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AST Chiro Qi-gong (AST Qi-gong) has been reported about the effects on severl diseases including cancer on clinical stance, hitherto. However, critical mechanism of therapeutic effect of AST Qi-gong has never been well known. Authors tried to investigate the effects of AST Qi-gong on the expression of transforming growth factor-beta receptor type I (TGF-βR type I) in colon cancer tissue by histopathological method. Immunohistochemical study showed the induction of the expression of TGF-βR type I in the area of moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma. It was interesting that the induction was stronger in the moderately differentiated area than in well differentiated area. However, because the critical reason of this interest was not well understood, further study was indispensable. In this study, it was suggested that AST Qi-gong induced the TGF-βR type I expression to inhibit the cancer growth by receiving more effect of TGF-β which was well known cytokine as the inhibitory factor of cell growth.

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Fusion of the Eastern philosophy and the Western science. We have fused the idea of "Shiki-soku-zeku" (Form or matter is non-subst intial) in Han-nya-Shingyo. "Mu" (nothingness), and "Koku" (Space) with the Superstring Theory in the theoretical physics today.

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