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Ch'i Kung also aided them in preventing illness and speeding recovery. Meals were irregular and the food coarse and uncooked. The body was exposed to the weather and subject to much abuse. Stomach trouble and other ailments naturally followed. Through experience, they learned methods to fight illness. For example, when they were ill, they lay still in caves and waited for death. After long experience, they discovered that by not moving or exercising, their bodies decayed and they died. By practicing certain exercises, they learned that the sick could become well again. They also found that exercises helped to maintain good health. These exercises were developed over thousands of years and came to be known as Ch'i Kung.

These exercises were developed naturally from instinctive responses to illnesses. The most universal symptom of disorder in the living organism is pain. The organism instinctively seeks to find remedies for it. For example, the dog licks its wounds, and eats certain herbs and grasses when sick. A child will naturally stretch its cramped limbs or scratch its itching body to remove these irritations. Such instinctive responses are the origins from which definite curative systems have arisen.