Measurements of Abdominal Respiration Patterns with Indexes and the Pulse Delay Time of Physiological Results in Regimen Qigong

It is well known that respiratory control is one of the basic elements of qigong. The basic respiratory method of Regimen Qigong is abdominal body adjustment, health maintenance, ability development, and also, the respiration is required to be deep, long, equal and thin. However, there is no standard of quantities concerning these demands, and no way to evaluate the respiration method which suits individual differences for each person, such as form and constitution. We thus established a respiratory index for expressing the respiration, which is said to be indispensable for achieving mind and respiratory pattern of the qigong method both qualitatively and quantitatively. Consequently, the phenomenon that the delay time of the pulse wave is shortened by respiratory control of health-care qigong could be checked.From respiratory control including the action, which controls the circulatory system, we could understand one end result of qigong training.