The Huaxia Blueprint: Healing When Resources Are Scarce
- Leilah Cupido
- Nov 10, 2025
- 8 min read
Updated: Nov 11, 2025
The pursuit of health in the modern context is accompanied by challenges rooted in scarce resources. In this way, successful healing can often feel less like a right and more like a luxury. This fact leaves us with a concern: in many parts of the world, access to healthcare remains a privilege rather than a guarantee. Through conversations with two South African medical professionals—Dr. Msiziwakhe Zakuza, who serves rural communities, and Mrs. Shalegga Amadien, a pharmacist and researcher—this article explores the realities of healing in resource-limited settings. Drawing on the example of China’s Medicine-less Hospital, the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Training Center, it proposes an integrated model that unites Eastern and Western medicine to enhance accessibility, reduce costs, and empower individuals to participate actively in their own healing.
The Modern Blockage: Cost, Distance, and Compromised Care
We frequently hear of the challenges: distances of at least 25km between primary health centres, leaving residents sometimes 70km away from the nearest hospital. Poorly maintained infrastructure, like unmaintained roads, restricts ambulance access and compromises essential follow-up care for patients, particularly those requiring facilities that are wheelchair accessible (Zakuza, 2025).
When treatment is finally accessed, the poor healthcare practitioner-to-patient ratio compromises the quality of care, sometimes resulting in poor outcomes. Patients wait hours to be seen and treated, while monthly appointments are based on systems of quantity control rather than quality. This systemic deficiency, driven by a lack of funds and declining numbers of hired healthcare professionals, is noted as offering a "small window providing insight into the state of the nation’s current financial affairs" (Zakuza, 2025).
South Coast Medical Solutions opens a new branch in Kwa Nositha to provide quality healthcare to the community 1st November 2025
(Source: Dr Msiziwakhe Zakuza)
The Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Centre’s Solution: An Internal Economic Miracle
The creation of the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Training Center (known globally as the Medicine-less Hospital) emerged from a strikingly similar national predicament regarding healthcare accessibility and cost. Individuals suffered from chronic or severe illnesses, and the healthcare system often led to "hefty costs" with "no improvement", offering patients only a "slim chance for survival" when both conventional Chinese and Western medicine had "no more solutions" (Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998).
Following China's market-oriented economic reforms starting in the early 1980s, medical fees soared, public hospitals became profit-driven, and access to affordable care deteriorated. This created a crisis— medical costs rose and were ten or a hundred times more expensive, while society required a "cheaper and better way of treatment" (Li, 2011; Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998).
Established in 1988 by Associate Professor Doctor Pang Ming, the Huaxia Center provided that alternative. It became a beacon of hope for public health, adhering to the nation’s “Reform and Open Up” Policy and successfully received over 200,000 patients in ten years, many arriving after having spent heavily with "no improvement". The dramatic results included documented medical miracles, such as a liver cancer patient whose tumour of 2.7 x 2.3cm was confirmed as a "normal liver" 26 days after beginning Qigong treatment (Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998).
The core success of the Huaxia Center was its low-input, high-yield philosophy. The practice demonstrated huge economic benefits, with reports showing trainees saved 83.45% of medical expenses. This efficiency stemmed from harnessing an individual’s internal power (Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998):
A Nurturing Environment: Patients were relieved of the "fear of hospital visit" and greeted by instructors "like relatives," instilling the belief that "You recover soon when you arrive here" (Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998).
Conscious Effort: Healing was reinforced by a positive environment built on reciprocal goodwill and optimism, recognizing that "Hard work is needed for consciousness to defeat illnesses" (Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998; Pang, Wei, & Fraser, 2013).
Accessibility: Zhineng Qigong instructors successfully brought Qigong-based treatment to the poor in mountain areas, bypassing infrastructure and distance challenges, where illnesses were treated effectively (Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998; Pang et al., 2013).
The Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Training Center ran initiatives specifically to treat the poor, some programs involved sending teachers to poverty-stricken mountain areas, giving classes in central locations and sharing Zhineng Qigong combined with other social acts.
(Source: The Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Center 10 year Anniversary Video)
Zhineng Qigong Science: Empowering Self-Correction
The methodology underpinning Zhineng Qigong is grounded in a systematic life science known as the Hunyuan Entirety Theory, which teaches practitioners to consciously use Shen (consciousness) to mobilize Qi (life-force energy) for physical and energetic transformation. While the practice integrates elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western medicine, Martial Arts, and Eastern philosophies such as Taoism and Confucianism, it was the first Qigong system to become testable, measurable, falsifiable, and capable of generating empirical data. This open-style practice views the human being as an integrated entirety of Xing (the physical body), Qi (energy), and Shen (consciousness), in which the mind (Shen) is regarded as the guiding master of the process (Pang et al., 2013).
The power of this practice lies in self-implementation, making it a highly accessible tool for health maintenance and improvement (Amadien, 2023):
Level One - External Hunyuan (Lift Qi Up Pour Qi Down): This basic method focuses on healing and cultivating good health. It teaches the practitioner to send internal qi out and draw external qi inside, opening the connections between human and natural Hunyuan qi. This practice is notably effective in gathering qi (Pang et al., 2013).
Static Practices (Three Centres Merge Standing Form): This foundation method mobilises inner qi quickly to strengthen the body. The mind is used to gather qi from the head, hands, and feet (the three centres) and merge them into lower dantian (where the physical body’s foundational essence is stored). It acts as a shortcut for relaxing and opening the lower back and sacroiliac joints (Pang et al., 2013).
Auxiliary Methods (Wall Squats): The simple, dynamic practice of Wall Squats is described as a "secret way to relax and open the lower back". If practiced diligently (e.g., 100 squats at a time), it can adjust the balance of overall body qi to resolve disordered qi conditions and "resolve all problems of any sort, with the exception of mental illness" (Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998; Pang et al., 2013).
Ultimately, Zhineng Qigong leverages the proven power of the mind and consciousness —through consistent, diligent effort —to guide the body toward a healthier state, impacting internal functions like DNA, brain, heart, and immune system health. With a focus on the regulation of Qi within the body rather than treating an illness in isolation, the body naturally normalizes (Pang et al., 2013).
Practitioners at the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Training Center practicing the three centres merge method of Zhineng Qigong
The Future Model: Integrating East and West with the Huaxia Blueprint
While Zhineng Qigong is excellent for health maintenance and disease prevention, it cannot replace necessary medical treatment for complex conditions like HIV/AIDS which require pharmacological intervention, or for critical acute care. Western medicine excels at treating established pathology, providing continuous, reliable treatment for chronic conditions. Although Zhineng Qigong and Western medicine are both evidence-based practices, the latter remains more accepted due to its extensive scientific research while the former may be more prone to stigma (Amadien, 2023).
However, Western medicine is resource-intensive, while Zhineng Qigong offers a low-cost, self-implementable and effective practice. Therefore, the most realistic and holistic model for the future is the strategic integration of both systems, creating a seamless lifetime health maintenance plan (Amadien, 2023; Li, 2011):
System | Primary Strength | Impact on Resource Scarcity | Role in Healing |
Western Medicine | Acute physical intervention; accepted evidence-based treatment | High cost; reliant on external infrastructure | Treats established xíng (physical form) pathology. |
Zhineng Qigong | Prevention; self-maintenance; inner cultivation | Low cost, high yield; increases accessibility. | Improves internal qi and Shen (consciousness/mind); strengthens immune function. |
This integrated model addresses the limitations faced by resource-constrained communities today:
Reduced Costs and Increased Efficiency: By implementing Zhineng Qigong for prevention and self-maintenance, the overwhelming financial burden of chronic disease management is lessened, as demonstrated by the 83.45% cost savings achieved by Zhineng Qigong trainees (Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998).
Improved Accessibility and Success Rate: Zhineng Qigong is suitable for popularisation and can be practiced freely. When combined with the accepted reliability of Western medicine for acute care, this model raises the success rate by supporting the body's internal environment continuously, ensuring better long-term health than either system can achieve alone (Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre, 1998; Amadien, 2023).
The Huaxia Blueprint proves that when resources are scarce, the ultimate resource to cultivate is a consciousness healing, guiding the body to heal from within and regulating the functions of the physical body naturally in turn. By merging this internal mastery with the necessary external precision of modern medicine, humanity can realistically build the inexpensive, effective, and universal healthcare system it requires (Li, 2011).
Doctor Pang Ming at the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Training Center in China
The Continuum of Healing based on the Huaxia Center
In the end, the Huaxia model reveals a universal truth: when external systems falter, inner systems can sustain. By aligning consciousness healing with science, Zhineng Qigong offers not only a supportive medicine but also a shift in perspective—one that reframes health as an attainable, participatory process rather than a privilege. Healing, then, is not merely the work of hospitals or governments—it is the work of consciousness itself and each individual who chooses it.
“Can Western medicine coexist with traditional medicine to aid public health? This proposed model of care, though rooted in Eastern medicine, challenges the very basis of patient care. Are we truly striving to help people? For if we are, then we should be open to other traditional forms of healing and care.” - Dr. Msiziwakhe Zakuza
In legitimizing the science of Zhineng Qigong so that a future of integrated healthcare may emerge, several questions arise: Can conventional scientific methods truly validate healing systems rooted in holistic health—those that integrate the physical, energetic, and conscious aspects of being—when no universally accepted measurements yet exist? Does the very nature of modern science limit its ability to acknowledge forms of healing that extend beyond current frameworks of understanding? And does this invalidate the healing in return? How can both Eastern and Western medicine evolve together to define a more complete picture of health?
References:
Zakuza, M. (2025, February 13). Interview with Dr. Msiziwakhe Zakuza, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). [Personal interview].
Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre. (1998). Huaxia Qigong Recovery Centre 10-year Anniversary Video (1988–1998) [DVD]. Chengdu, China.
Li, L. (2011). The challenges of healthcare reforms in China. Public Health, 125(1), 6-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2010.10.010
Pang, M., Wei, Q. F., & Fraser, P. (2013). The Methods of Zhineng Qigong Science (Vol. 1, Teaching Zhineng Qigong) (Paperback, 196 pp.). Patricia Fraser. ISBN 0473242311
Amadien, S. (2023, February 16). Interview with Shalegga Amadien, Bachelor of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Researcher. [Personal interview].
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