Yijin Jing
Conventional medicine
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The Yijin Jing or Yik-kan Ging is a manual of Daoyin exercises, a series of mental and bodily exercises to cultivate jing (essence) and direct and refine qi, the internal energy of the body according to traditional Chinese medicine.