Image medicine came to Russia from Shaolin Monastery by Master Mingtang Xu, a lineage holder of Zhong Yuan Qigong School, a separate system that grew from Qigong practice. However, image medicine differs from Qigong which is a self-recovery method, in a way that it represents a healing technique which activates inner powers of a patient necessary for recovery and consists in casting a healer into a specific “Qigong state” and further work with it. Main methods of image medicine include visualization and mental imaging. 

It is important to remember that such treatment is possible only if a patient gives his/her consent and that positive outcome depends directly on scrupulous compliance with doctor’s instructions.