What is the power of body blood? According to Chinese medicine, the beating of the heart drives blood to run in the heart. How can it be said that qi drives blood to move in blood vessels?

The "qi" mentioned by Chinese medicine is different from the air that westerners think. Qi is energy, and any energy with the nature of "Qi" mentioned by TCM is called Qi. This energy includes both a part of matter and a part of energy, but you can't tell what it is, only know its nature. The beating of the heart pushes the blood, which is not said by Chinese medicine, but by western medicine. What Chinese medicine refers to as "blood" is not as simple as what western medicine thinks. As long as there is "blood" material and energy, it is blood. For example, tissue fluid, as long as it can be hidden and nourish the human body, is blood, not just the red one. Body fluid, qi and blood and essence can be transformed into each other, and there is no specific boundary.

Qi drives blood to run, because:

First, the gas inhaled by the lungs has a typical "qi" nature. Without this kind of breathing, blood vessels can't function. Pulse diagnosis is based on the law that breathing pushes blood vessels to break diseases;

Second, Huangdi Neijing said: "Dirty is really higher than lung, so as to activate Wei Rong's yin and yang", "The great collateral of the stomach means deficiency in the interior, penetrating the diaphragm and collateral the lung, moving under the left chest according to clothes, and the pulse is full of qi". The ancestral blood qi originated from the stomach, went up to the lungs, and then promoted the operation of various materials and energies of Yin and Yang in Wei Rong. Therefore, to understand the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, we should find the basis from ancient books, not from modern fabricated theories;

Third, what you said about "what is the lung and what is the pump" is not helpful to your understanding of TCM theory, but hinders your understanding of TCM. Because those are all western medicine theories, Chinese medicine does not talk about this. If someone speaks, it is not pure Chinese medicine, but "selling dog meat by hanging sheep's head." Chinese and western medicine are originally two systems with different ways of thinking, and so far no one has been able to integrate them.