Actually, there is no disease!

A basic concept of the PaidaLajin self-healing method is, first of all, to ignore the disease name. All diseases are complex diseases. Even a mild cold or cough is a complex disease. To put it another way, all diseases, including cold and fever, are disorders of the immune system, not to mention various chronic diseases that are aggregated manifestations of many illnesses. A person with correct understanding will follow the theory of the self-healing method and practice PaidaLajin in a systematic manner, and not just slap a certain area or for the sake of curing a particular disease, unless, of course, to relieve acute pains and/or other urgent symptoms. 5 The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon, and Tao Te Ching provided theoretical guidelines for PaidaLajin. The yin-yang interactions, the meridians system and the “heal through inaction” revealed in the two ancient Chinese classics are indispensable for establishment of the self-healing theory and our summary of what body areas to slap. It is very sad when people cannot understand these basic truths.

Many disease names — diabetes, hypertension, for instance — are merely symptoms so labeled according to a particular medical indicator. Thus, diseases names can be quite misleading. Nonetheless, to facilitate inquiries and communication, we have to categorize them using disease names. As diseases are complex and different diseases can manifest the same symptoms, therefore the descriptions in different parts of this text may also overlap and may be seemingly repetitive. What’s important is to understand that the nature of a disease is yin-yang imbalance caused by meridian.

Temporary exacerbation of certain symptoms during this process is a good thing, which we call “healing reaction” — intertwined danger of a seeming decline in healing as well as an opportunity for a thorough healing.