Foot Binding Part 2: Energetic and Epigenetic Impact
Explicit and deliberate dispersal of Qi that will usher in death is a malicious act. When a mother binds a girl’s feet, she is breaking the energy flow network and preventing the energy from gathering in the girl’s body. Thus she is dispersing or isolating it, which invites death.
Foot Binding Part 1: History, Anatomy, and Physical Impact
On a physiological level, foot binding is hugely counterproductive to a girl’s physical development, not just because it causes her excruciating pain, but also because the process of bone remodeling actively steals or hogs biological resources and energy required to properly develop a girl into a woman.