Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 gigong exercise and the recovery heart rate 10 minutes after the exercise with a PV-701 WRIST-WANTCH-STYLE PULSE MONITOR. The heart rate during the exercise (lasting for 54 minutes) was measured every two minutes. The resting state heart rate was 73. 4-per minute before the exercise, the average rate was 94.3 per min. and the highest rate was 124. 4/per min. During the exercise the recovery rate was 82.7/per min. after the exercise. These results tell us that the qigong exercise is a kind of light endurable loading exercise, — its physiological loading intensity does not exceed 50% of the maximum intaking oxygen. It is a small amount of exercise suitable for the patients of heart trouble. 3. The thermal effect of acupoints; We measured the change of the skin temperature of the middle fingertip, Laogong (P 8), Yintang (Extra), Baihui (Du 20) and Sanginjiao (Sp 6) before and after the exercise with a semiconductor point thermometer. Here is the result. There was a very significant change of temperature at Laogong (P 8) before and after the exercise (P(0. 01), the average temperature increasing by 1. 3°C; temperature on Baihui (Du 20) increased by 1°C; temperature on the middle fingertip and Yintan (Extral) increased by 0. 7°C and 0. 8°C respectively; temperature oh Sanyinjiao (Sp 6) deereased by 0.1°C. The increase of skin temperature of acupoints shows that the gigong exerdise can promote blood ' circulation and expand the capillary. According to the above tests we can conclude; 1. The gigong exercise can excite the cardiac functional potential, PWG... function test is a measurement for the quantitative exercise tolerance test of the heart function. PWG,,. value . is depended on the heart volume, and people who have a larger volume gained higher power, which increased by 148% after the exercise than before. It shows that] the qugong exercise can bring cardiac reserve into full play, increasing the cardiac systole and diastole volume, and enhancing the heart muscle contractive power. | - 2. When those who did the exercise bore a smaller physiological loading intensity, their heart rate is 128% of that in the resting state, helpful to lighten the turden of the heart and decrease the myocardial oxygen consumption. This exercise is advispble for the weak old people and for those having chronic diseases, especially heart trouble. 3. The acupoint thermal effect was markedly seen during the exercise. The increase of acupoint skin temperature is helpful to increase the excitability of "" muscle and nervous system and to heighten metabolism and cardiovascuclar function. Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 |
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 SPECULATION ON THE MEDIA OF Q/GONG Manaka, Yoshio (Kitasato Institute. Sirogane 5-9-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan) Qigong exercise is not mere physical training, and qigong treatment is not a simple ’ physiotherapy. What is essentiacl is that qigong procedure is an art in which q plays an important role. However, it is not easy to define it with scientific terms. The author has much interest in the “biological information system” and the “media” which are unbelievably ‘minute and accurate in the system, but often too fine to detect them in detail. The author has enough reason to believe that certain part of the concepts of gi indicates such delicate biological information media which have many characteristics in common with qi, untouchable, invisible or inaudible, yet one can recognize their functions one way or another. The author proposes several topics about some biological information media which might give certain suggestions to explain the modus operandi of the qi activities. (1)OMURA’s TEST applied to the abdominal diagnosis. (2)MANAKA’s COLOUR-TEST of the five element points. (3)KATSUMATA’s molecular wave. - (A)KATSUMATA’s afterimage-agent (5)MANAKA’s series-effect (1) OMURA’s O-RING-TEST*consists of “a” input and “b” output. For example, if one touches a point where pathological occurrence exists, “a” input causes finger muscle tonus reduction. “a” is too minute to be called as nervous stimulation to occur nervous reflex. It is just an agent in the information system. The author has verified the fact that if one gives a right signal on a right point on the extremities, it can affect the concerned point on the abdominal area and one can check it with OMURA’s test on the point in question. (2)In 1986 Manaka demonstrated the fact that if one applies the five element points with proper colouring, i.e. red on the the fire point, yellow on the earth point, white on the metal point and so on, these effects can be checked by OMURA’s test. (3) Katsumata demonstrated in 1987 that any molecules of asymmetric structure emerge a wave while spinning, and studied the charactaristics of the wave. It could affect the OMURA’s test either. (4)Katsumata also proved if a substance stayed at one position for a certain period, there remained so-called molecular wave alias Caftemirage agent). « 71. Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 | (5) In 1988 Manaka demonstrated that if one gave signals in certain series, they caused particular (therapeutic) effect. It might give explanation to that [particular formula of movement of gigong which has special effect. THE DIFFERENCE OF DIRECTION OF Q/ CIRCULATION IN THE SMALL @/ CYCLE BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN Toshihiko Yayama, Tomohiro Shiramizu and Kiyosi Inokuchi (Saga Prefectural Hospital, Kouseikan, Japan) The function of the human body is controlled by twelve main} meridians which are divided into six yang meridians and six yin meridians. Yang meridians are superintended by the Du Meridian and ym Meridians by the Ren Meridian. To obtain the circulation of the energy or gt along the Du and Ren Meridians is said the small gi cycle. When small gi cycle has been achieved, the stagnation of qi in the twelve main meridian is dissolved,| and the flow of gi in the human body goes around smoothly. The achievement of small q cycle is one of the important’ purposes in qi training. But the process to accomplish this is not clear yet, it is difficult for common people to do it, and furthermore, the real meaning .of it ‘is not elucidated. We have practised various classical gi training to make clear the process of the small qi cycle. Traditionally, it had been suggested that the flow of qi} in the small qi cycle ascended along the Du Meridian and descended along the Ren Meridian; But because we feel the, discrepancy between man and woman in our training process, | we build up a new hypothesis that in woman the flow of gi in the small qi cycle ascends along the Ren Meridian and descends along the Du Meridian. We report here the data that testify this hypothesis and make the proposal that this hypothesis is useful to achieve the small gi cycle. Materials and methods, , The subjects were fifty healthy adult men and fifty healthy adult women. The direction of qt flow in the small q cycle was measured by means of O-RING TEST (Omura’s test), by using the stimulations of magnetic force or ultrasonic scanning on the Du and Ren Meridians. It is said that by this O-RING TEST the biological effects of subtle stimulation can be detected as the alteration of the finger muscle strength. Though the mechanism of this O-RING TEST is not revealed, it is known that the benificial stimulations enhance the finger muscle Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 strength, but the harmful stimulations weaken it. The subjected person made a circle using the thumb and an index finger (O-RING), and the examiner also made O-RING with the same fingers of each hands passing through -the subject’s O-RING. We measured the degree of separation .of the subject’s O-RING fingers pulling toward right side and left side by the examiner’s O-RING before and during the stimulations by the magnetic force or the ultrasonic scanning on the Du and Ren Meridians. . Result; . 1. Ninety-eight percent of the subjects altered their finger muscle strength by the stimulation by the magnetic force or the supersonic scanning on the Du or Ren. Meridian. 2. The men’s finger muscle strength was enhanced by the stimulation of the magnetic force or the ultrasonic scanning ascending in the Du Méridian and descending in the Ren Meridian, but the women’s was weakened. ‘3. The man’s finger muscle strength was weakened by the stimulation ascending in the Ren Meridian and descenting in the Du Meridian, but the woman’s was enhanced. 4. Two subjected persons on whom the stimulation had no effects reported that they realized the small gi cycle in high degree. 5. The persons who developed the qi felt that the progressive stimulation which enhanceed the finger muscle strength was comfortable, but the regressive stimulation which weakened the finger muscle strength was discomfortable, and they also felt some tenderness on some meridians by the regressive stimulation. Discussion ; The stimulation of the magnetic force and the ultrasonic scanning, which cannot be precepted, can make some effects on the human body. If the ge in the human body goes around smoothly by the stimulation, the finger muscle strength can be enhanced. It is revealed that the direction of the magnetic force and the ultrasonic scanning which enhance the finger muscle strength is reversed between man and woman. This fact may be one ground for the new hypothsis that the direction of the qi flow in the small qi cycle is reversed in man and woman. The small q cycle may be achieved more facilely considering the difference of the current between man and woman stimulatied by the magnetic force or the supersonicn scanning. And the application of the small qi cycle toward health care may develop. + 73° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 TREATMENT EFFECT AND TENTATIVE WORKING THEORIES OF AUTONOMOUS Q/GONG EXERCISE | Everlyn Fung Lee, (National Taiwan University, Taiwan ,Chin4) A fairly simple method has been developed to turn on somebody to exercise autonomously by him or her following his or her own flow of gi. . gradual conditioned reflex Based on yoga exercises and the modified yoga routine the trainee would autonomously and subconsciously promote gi flow; By continuous practicing the atounomous exercise, one feels bettér either physically or mentally, especially to those with diseases. Some with hemiplegia would gain muscle power to their weaker limbs. Some with arthritis would lessen their pain of even become symptoms free. Some with toxic hyperthyroidism would ‘become less agitated emotionally and symptomes free. Some with cancer still receiving radiotherapy or chemotherapy , would have less complications after each treatment, namely, they would find their leukocyte count lower but less than before and arise again much quicker. They also feel they can tolerate much more to their treatment. To the ones with acute or chronic injury, they would make their own qz flow to the local regions and to the corresponding points. ° How can the autonomous exercise come to work and why it has{such benefit to one’s health? As a medical professional, I can only use my own scientific thinking logic to approach. I think I have come to an assumption very close to the fact. First of all, you have to find a quiet place, avoid all kinds of external stimuli, and also, prepare your mind to a quiet and relax state, then follow the instruction, do relaxing exercise to warm up the body and relax all the joints, gradually let go of yourself, let your feeling float up, and follow your feeling. If you feel your body wants td move, let it be. It is more tentative to explain why it works. The human mind is controlled by two aspects, namely, conscious level and subconscious level. Conscious level controls the irritation coming from the outside wotld, but subconscious level controls the irritation coming from inside of our body. In conscious level, we think and do things accordingly. We think it is logic, and order our body to do so. If the body can tolerate, usually the body would not complain, though it might not be absolutely good to the body. In subcouscious level, we feel and let the body express as it desires. It is the true voice i j | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R)00701080001--1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 of the body. In the modern way of living, people usually rush their lives, they use more ordering in conscious level, suppressing their feeling, and they think they are taken care of their health, actually, they may do more harm than good. Autonomous exercise, in the contrary way, allows the body to express its own voice and the exercise is following the body’s own demand. Of course it works wonderfully. Qi seems to be a hidden part of the body structure, waiting to be found. Therefore q? is born with. @i should be a very active system since birth, but gradually loses its function after one is growing up by not knowing how to use this system. Since it is built in, gi can be arisen by any form of gigong practice, autonomous exercise is only one of them. A STUDY OF STRENGTH FEAT CONCERNING THE HUMAN SELF-CURATIVE POWER Wang Chuan-Fu = (Taiwan, China) Human beings are born to an innate ability to resist diseases, called “self-curative power”. Such power keeps our body permanently in normal and healthy condition. In physiology, such strength is also designated “homeostasis” . This power can enable the body to produce resistance against illnesses, eliminate causes of disease and facilitate the body recovered. The function of both physicians and medicine does not lie in curing diseases directly but . in helping such curative power do execution. Provided the body is possessed of great “self- curative power”, it would not experience any illness. Even though sick, it can also be recovered within a-short time. Such power is so integral that we should increase and stimulate it every day. In such way; the genuine avenue to health can be reached. The way to health is composed of four elements; air, sunlight, water and electromagnetic wave. It goes without saying that air, sunlight and water are very important. As far as the electromagnetic wave is concerned, it is a very significant treasure, verified recently by scientists. In addition to sunlight, the sun also radiates a kind of magnetic wave of six million meter length. For billions of years, the incessant illumination of sun magnetic wave makes the earth turn out to be an enormous magnetic field. Due to the illumination of the magnetic wave on the earth, the iron material in the body is subject to magnetization which effects the blood circulation in order to keep growth of life. The magnetic waves of e 75 ° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
| Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 both the sun and the earth are natural superlong waves, integral to the| maintenance of human health. However, the function of our body is decaying day by day, so is the natural resistance therein. In order to restore health, the magnetic wave, should be: reinforced for health-keeping and disease-curing effect. From the medical viewpoint, such methods as receiving injection Ind taking medicine can be called chemical therapy, also known as “first medicine”. On the other hand, some people discover the curing methods like massage, sun bathing, hot-spring bath, which can be called | physical therapy, also recognized as “second medicine”. The first and second medicines may be available for superficial therapy, but infeasible for basic cure. Since the first and second medinines ate facing an invisible wall which will not be broken through unless the magnetic wave increases as an auxiliary. According to the evidences of clinic tests undertaken by such famdus medical institutions as the Medical College of Roman University, the magnetic line of wt cannot only enhance health, offer power but increase the human self-curative power to a large extent, make the | abonrmal neurotic system adjusted, provide blood circulation, create new cells and renew tissues in the body. | Different from ordinary electric currents, the electromagnetic wave can flow beyond the sutface of objects. It is also unlike XK ray because the latter cann t penetrate the bones whereas the electromagnetic wave can reach deep into the muscle, fats} the internal parts of matrow and release neurotic tension. Such electromagnetic wave will never cause any unplea- sant feelings, for example, pain or shock, ete. On the contrary, it wi 1 result in comfortable and warm vibration. Such vibrant phenomenon gives rise to what is called Joule’s heat, which can strenghten the function of cells and produce analgesic and anti-inflammatory function. Passing through the internal tissues, the electromagnetic wave will creaté the induction current so as to further the metabolism of tissues and ensure its vitality. Besides, by going through the tissues in the body, the electromagnetic wave can keep the internal {secretions normal and each organ healthy. The electromagnetic wave magnetizes the iron material in the jbody, forwards the function of blood circulation and reinforces the circulation action of lyp h. In such a way, the fresh blood is endowed with the ability to transport nutrients fully i the whole cells are provided with resources of energy. At the same time, owing to the vibration of the iron in the ted corpuscles, the cholesterin in the vessels is removed little by little so that such diseases as hypertension and paralysis will therefore obtain the fundamental prevention. Most important, it can increase the self-curative power in our body, make the human} body produce strong * 76 e Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 resistance against diseases and get rid of fatigue as rapidly as possible. If under the appropriate guidance of expert physicians to the proper accompaniment of the first medicine of chemical: therapy and the second one of physical therapy, the so-called third medicine of magnetic wave therapy will be undountedly reinforced in view of its medical effect. The feat of strength is, in fact, the eletromagnetic wave, because the feeling of strength is heat, electricity (static current) and magnetic field (power), which are combined into the electromagnetic wave. What the feat of strength means is by enhancing the electromagnetic wave in the human body “under the control of human consciousness. The feat of strength in itself is a traditional name, the scientific designation of which is the electromagnetic wave. Accordingly, the curing and reinforcing effect of the feat of strength is also that of the electromagnetic wave as described above. The feat of strength used by this sect is characterized by the personal performance of the teacher to imbue his own power as acquired by his own cultivation into the body of students for molding a body of strength, reinforcing its power, opening simultaneously the requisite blood circulation, make the students accopmlish their body of strength and furthermore applying it to the treatment of diseases on oneself or others. This sect of strength feat can cure not only the diseases of one’s own but those of others to relieve them of pain, except for the patients with serious illnesses, who should be treated, accopmanied by other above-mentioned therapies. The feat of strength of this sect is derived from the electromagnetic wave in nature, which can be assembled in the human body for reinforcing the body. Its supply is inexhaustible and its application is limitless. It would never be involved in such drawback that the strength will become weak if performed in an excessive degree, unlike current feats of strength. A PRIMARY STUDY OF THE INDUCING FUNCTION OF THE EMITTED QI OF QIGONG ON THE BIOLOGICAL COMPOSITION OF o-AMYLASE IN WHEAT SEEDS Liu Haitao et al CWeifang Medical Collcge, Shandong province, China) This paper is a primary study about the biological effect of the emitted qi of gigong on the 77 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 |
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 t i { | basis of enzyme study. According to known reports, we know that the emitted qi of qigong can raise the budding rate of rice seeds. Our experiment also shows that supplying the emitted qz to wheat seeds and corn secds for a period of time can affect them when they later begin budding. If the purpose of the gigong supplier is to promote the budding, | the budding rate may be comparatively enhanced. The budding process of seeds is a very complex physiological and biochemical one. What actual segment the emitted gz affects is something! still unkwown. Wheat seeds contain 72 percent starch, which is a fairly high} amount. The starch hydrolyzes and becomes the main source of nourishing matter needed by ithe embryo’s growth. The hydrolysis of starch calls for a-amylase and B-amylase. B-amylase pes even before the the zymogen which formerly existed in the endosperm. Usually it begins to show its vitality three hours after swelling. The porduction of a-amylase is more complex; when the seeds bud, the embryo produces gibberellin (GA) . GA is transported to the endosperm and budding of the seeds, and it forms quickly when the seeds are swelling and it is formed from ‘promotes the composition of some particular mRNA, therefore 3 a particular protein- — --g-amylase. It shows its vitality much later than B-amylase, as it choles after the seeds are drenched for 24 hours. The inductivity of GA to a-amylase is a very specific reaction. If we deprive the seeds of their embryos, without the inductivity of GA the seeds cannot produce a- amylase. The exogenous GA has:a similar inducing function. Before the experiment we cut off the embryos of the wheat seeds-and cultivated them for 28 hours. After supplying the emitted gz to the experimental group, the seeds were cultivated for another 21 hours. Then the amylase vitality of the seeds was tested and compared with that of the control group. The result is that the difference between them is not obvious (P> we had two other groups; the group of seeds supplied with GA, the group of seeds supplied 0.05). The experiment was repeated. In addition to the gigong group ‘p the control group, with the emitted gi and GA. After using the emitted q for 40 hours,| the vitality of each group was tested respectively, and the results were compared. We found that the vitality of the group supplied with the emitted gi was much higher than that of thé control group (P< 0.05) and the emitted gi did not have much effect on the GA treated group (P<0. 05). The experiment shows that the emitted q: can affect the vitality of wheat |seeds. The influence shows very obvious after the supplying of the emitted q for a comparatively long period (more than 24 hours) . This matches with the fact that a-amylase shows its vitality after a long period. We can draw a primary conclusion : the emitted gi of qigog mainly has an effect on the vitality of o-amylase. In the study of the inducing function of }|GA on the biological composition of o-amylase it is believed that GA takes part in the translating process of « 78 ¢ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 |
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 protein. The emited qi has the same inducing function as GA. Its mechanism might also have something to do with this. Besides, when GA exists, the inducing function of the emitted qz is not obvious, which also shows that they may compete with each other, just because they have a similar affecting point in the composition of a-amylase. This experiment is only a primary study of the microcosmic mechanism of the biological effect of gigong. Its conclusion necds to be supported by other scientific experiments. EFFECTS OF THE EMITTED QI ON THE SPONTANEOUS DISCHARGES OF CEREBELLAR NEURONS IN RATS Yao Yuzhong, Zhang Jinmei, Liu Gangquan and Wang Liwei ( Sun Yat-sen University of Mcdical Sciences, Guangzhou, China) The cerebellums of 12 rats were exposed under anaesthesia. The spontaneous discharges of cerebellar neurons were recorded with glass microelectrodes. According to the request of the experimental designer to excite or inhibit the neuronal discharges, the qigong master emitted his gt with different mind power to the animal from a distance of 1-2 meters for 1-2 minutes. After the frequency of discharges was restored to the original level, the above procedure was repeated once or twice. An untrained person imitated the qigong master to give off his qi as a control. The mean value of interspike interval was analyzed by a computer. The effects of the emitted gt’ were compared with that of the control group. 25 neurons were measured, 6 of which showed excitatory responses on the excitatory mind power of the gigong master. Their discharge frequencies increased. The mean interspike interval shortened from the original 34 ms to 16 ms (P<<0. 05). 8 neurons showed inhibitory responses to the inhibitory mind power of the qigong master. Their discharge frequencies decreased and the mean interspike interval increased from the original 12.6 ms to 211.6 ms (P< 0.05).. 9 neurons showed a bidirectional response, i.e. both excitatory responses to the excitatory mind power and inhibitory responses to the inhibitory mind power. The mean interspike interval for the former shortened from the original 83. 1 ms to 32.6 ms (P<(0.05), and for the latter increased from the original 24.5 ms to 491.2 ms (P<(0.05) . 2 neurons, anyhow, showed no response to both kinds of intentions. In control experiments, the mimic qv did not cause any change. The onset of neuron responses to the emitted q: was different in different neurons and e 79 °* Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 could be divided into two patterns. One pattern was with rapid onset. i he response appeared . | as soon as the gigong master entered the laboratory and became more intense during the action of the emitted gi.. The other type was with late onset. The response started 1-2 minutes after the beginning of the action of the emitted gi. Yet both types had a cotnmon characteristic of the after-effect. The response continued and lasted IZ minutes to 15 hours after the | ceasstion of the emission of q. | The results mentioned above indicate (1) The emitted qi is an objective biological message. (2) The effect of the emitted gi on the spontaneous discharges of the cerebellar neurons in rats varies. It can cause excitatory, inhibitory and bidirectional responses of the neurons. And these responses are controlled by the mind power of the gigong master. (3) There is a period of after-effect of the emitted q on the discharges of; the neurons after the cessation of the emission of qi. i { CHANGES OF SKIN TEMPERATURE DURING EMISSION OF QI i Tokuo Ogawa (Aichi Medical University , Japan) Shigemi Hayashi (Chinese-Japanese Institute of Qigong) | i Norihiko Shinoda (Shakti Acupuncture Clinic, Japan) Norikazu Ohnishi (Aichi Medical University , Japan) i t The concept of qi is philosophical or psychological and its efficacy has been poorly evidenced scientifically. Previously we examined effects of wei-bigong on cutaneous autonomic nervous activities and demonstrated changes in skin temperature and sweat rate during the practice of qigong. In the present study, we observed changes of skin temperature of the hands of the qigong master and the recipient during the emissin of gt by means of infrared thermography. The effect of the combination of quiescent and dynamic qigong was A t also examined. i Methods; Experiments were carried out with cooperation of two gigong masters, one male and one female, and several volunteers of both sexes as recipients of the emitted qi. A few of the latter had been practicing gigong for some time. In a climatic chamber controlled at the air temperature of 23°C and the relative humidity of 40%, the gigong master was directed to r Hegu (L 14) of the practice the quiescent gigong and emit his qi. Qi was transmitted to the! tip of the second and third fingers and emitted towards the meridian point , Laogong (P 8) * 80° | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 recipient. During the whole session, skin temperatures of the hands and fingers of both the master and the recipient were monitored by an infrared color thermograph (Fujitsu Infra-Eye 160). The same practice was repeated immediately after the dynamic qigong practice. Results; The skin temperatures of the palm and fingers elevated after the start of the qigong exercise. Transmission of gi to the peripheries reached the maximum in 3-4 min. , the temperature was as high as 4°C. They returned to the original level within a few minutes after the cessasion of the exercise. Soon after the start of gi emission towards Laogong (P 8) area, the palmar temperature of the recipient began to rise and the maximum rise up to 4°C was reached in 4-5 min. Occasionally, the skin temperature of the recipient’s palm became higher than that of the master’s fingertips. A trend was noted that the skin temperature of a trained recipient elevated more readily than that of an untrained recipient. The skin temperature of the recipient lowered to the original level in several mintues after gi emissfon was discontinued. Qi emission ” towards the Hegu (LI4) area was less effective than that towards the Laogong area, and only a rise of 1-2°C in its vicinity was observed. . The skin temperature of the hands of the qigong master showed a considerable tise after the practice of the dynamic qigong was completed. Howerver, the effects of the exercise as well as that of gi emission were similar to those before the dynamic qigong practice. Discussion; The inner energy, qi, is said to be accumulated at the fingertips by the practice of gigong and emitted to the hand of the recipient by the practice of gi emission, but the entity of the emitted gi has not been clarified. It may be possibly to assume that qu comprises electromagnetic waves including ample far-infrared spectra. It should be considered , however, that radiant heat dissipation from the recipient’s hand may be blocked by the master’s fingers and the recipient may be unconsciously practicing q transmission to the hand by his Cor her) mental concentration during the session. Dynamic qigong showed no immediate effect on the efficacy of the gigong exercise as well as gi emission practice on the skin temperature. However, it may augment the efficacy of the qigong training. * 81 e- Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 A BIOENERGY STUDY OF THE CHINESE MERIDIAN SYSTEM IN PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION--AN OBSERVATION OF 483 HEALTHY HUMAN SUBJECTS Julia J. Tsuei, Chieh Chung, Frederick M. K. Lam, \Jr. and Ming-pi Mi ulu, Hawaii, U.S. A. ) (Center for East-West Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hon The electric and magnetic nature of the human body has one been recognized by traditional Chinese medical practitioners. It has been proved by a lot jof researchers in their “acupuncture points” Ihave a lower electrical experiments. They find that the points known as impedance and a higher electrical conductivity than the adjacent areas. This paper intends to discuss the bioenergetic measurement of thd normal population in different gender and age groups. 348 male and 135 female subjects of varying age were recruited. To study the bioelectric activities of the body the principles of ithe electroacupuncture method according to Voll were used. With this method the authors selected two groups of. points--whole-body acupuncture points and specific acupuncture points and compared the whole-body points with the the specific points to find out the key of biolbgical energy. | As regards the influences of age and gender to the biological energy|, it is very interesting to observe that the values of the whole-body measurement points in males were higher than that in the females and, by using the regression study the relationship ith age was found to be linear in males but of significant in three-out-of-four measurements lin females. Since this means that the measurement value decreases with an increase in age, it fits the general observation of the difference between genders in vitality and activity; with an increase in age it fits the general observation of the differece between genders in vitality and activity; with higher age, the energy of the males decreases, but in the females it i$ less obvious. On the other hand, there is no significant relationship in gender and age in measurement of the specific points. This further indicates that the two groups of points are measuring two levels of biological energy of the body; the whole-body points may present the general biological energy and the specific points are expressing the bioenergy of a specific organ, It may be that the bioenergetic activity of a specific organ is expressed through this measure¢ment by changing the conductivity and the permselectivity of the specific points on the skin. It is hoped by the authors that these findings would be important for considerations in medical diagnosis. Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 EFFECTS OF QIGONG ON CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW (CBF) AND EXTREMITIC BLOOD FLOW(EBF) (Zhao Baofeng Beidaihe Qigong Rehabititation Hospital, Hebci, China) In order to probe some characteristic physiological changes on the human body under the qigong state, and to probe the length of the time the practiser of ggong must need according to this data, the CBF, EBF etc. were checked on 25 patients who practised gigong exercises to compare with 10 patients in the control group. During this experiment, we got initial significant results. Out of the 25 patients, 10 practise Zhoutiangong, 5 internal qigong, , 5 Xuminggong, 5 Fenxineryonggong. They did the qigong exercises four times daily, one hour for each. At the same time, they must do Daoytnxing qigong to prevent deviation, each time for half an hour. Before the gigong exercise, each patient was examed of CBF, stroke volume (SV) > upper limb blood flow CULBF), lower limb blood flow CLLBF) and breathing frequency (BF). Then they did the exercise under the guide of a gigong master. Two months later, the percentage of each item under the qigong state and normal physiological state was calculated. The control group was examed and calculated in the same way. Through observation there was no marked difference in CBF, ULBF, LLBF and BF in 5 minutes or 10 minutes after the gigong state cither in the gigong group or in the control group. Two months after the qigong exercise, the BF, CBF in the qigong group decreased by 26 percent, 3.9 percent respectively. The BF and CBF in the control group decreased by 3.9, 1. 6 percent respectively (P<0. 01). There was remarked difference on statistics. This shows that the slowed CBF and decreased BF are two important items in the gigong state. Although the BF and CBF have droped remarkably 5 minutes under the gigong state, the BF and CBF have increased 3. 2 percent and 0. 2 percent respectively 10 minutes earlier. This indicates that these people are in the primary stage, conforming to the ancient saying “the primary stage needs 100 days in Xtaezhoutian”. In other words, the gigong practisers who are at the beginning stage at least do the qigong exercise for two months. Clinically, 10 ott of the gigong group suffered from different chronic disease. After two months of practising Zhoutiangong, they all recovered to some extent. 2 out of 10 were cured, 7 were on the mend. Only one patient failed. This tells us that the Zkoutiangong is effective to some chronic disease. © 83 6 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 A CLINICAL AND LABORATORY STUDY OP THE EFFECT OF QIGONG ANAESTHESIA ON THYROGIDECTOMY Lin Houshen - (Shanghai Qigong Institute, Shanghai, China) Qigong anaesthesia (hereafter called QA) has recently presented satisfactory results in the resection of thyriod gland tumour and operations on tongue cysts. It} has been shown by experiments that QA has sedative and analgesic effects. _ The cilnical results are obvious. Once when I was emitting my q? from the centre of my palm to treat a patient of stomach cancer, I found coincidentely that jhis pain was relieved immediately. This hints that the emitted qi has a certain effect of relieving pain. With the same kind qi I treated a patient of schizophrenia when he went to sleep, within less than five minutes sitting on the bench. This indicates the emitted gi has the sedative effect. The above phenomena in the clinic inspiréd the assumption to. make use of gigong as an anaesthetic in performing the resection of thyroid gland tumour and cyst. The cilnical applications of QA have won success. From May to Juhe in 1980, 34 cases of resection of the thyroid gland tumour and cyst were successfully operated on under QA with the assistance of the Shanghai No 8 People’s Hospital, the affiliated Shuguang Hospital and Longhua Hospital attached of the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Zhongsan Hospital and the E. N. T. Hospital the Shanghai Medical University, and the Hefei No 1 People’s Hospital. Judged by the Anaesthetic Effect Standards stipulated at the National Conference of Acupuncture Anaethesia, 17 cases reached grade 1; 14 dases grade II; 3 cases grade III. Grade I and II accouted for 91.1%, showing that QA hadjfairly good effects in surgery. Experiments have to be done for further study. I emitted my qi from the centre of my palm to a rabbit about 10 cm away, aiming at a certain acupuncture point. As the rabbit received my gi, its cellular electric pulse changed greatly. Meanwhile the temperature on the tip of its nose raised 3°C. I emitted my qi through the centre of my palm which was about one metre away form a liquid crystal board and turned its colour jfrom black to blue. Experimenting on a thermal imaging system, I emitted the same gi from about 1 metre away. The photos produced by this system showed that there was a ring of light around Laogong (P 8) in the centre of my palm, and the skin temperature at Laogong (P| 8) increased 2. 8°C. Emitting my qi to colonies of fluorescent germs about 15 cm away, I made the germs give out e 84 o Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 i
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 68% more light. My palm was put in front of a low temperature infrared tester about 1 metre away when qi was emitted from Laogong (P 8). The instrument showed that this is a kind of infrared magnetic wave modulated by low frequency. I issued my qi for 30 patients when they were treated. Meanwhile, a control group who did not receive QA was estabilshed to observe the effect of QA on the pain threshold. There existed great difference in the pain threshold between the patients who had accepted QA and those who had not. The L-EK determination was also performed before and after QA, showing a significant post GA increase in the L-EK content. The average rate raised per person was that in one case, before and after the giving of QA, blood samples had been taken to rule out the possibility of the influence of other factors such as surgical stimulus, L-EK still raised 30%. From the foresaid example we can see the emitted gi can promote recepients’ L-EK to release, so to elicit the analgesic effect. As to the different influences of QA and drug anaesthesia over NK cells, we compared the immune activity of NC cells in 4 QA cases with that in 4 cases receiving drug anaesthesia. It was found that in the QA group, the NC immune activity was weaker before QA than in the QA process. In the drug anaesthesic group, however, the finding was just the opposite. This indicates that QA is an unharmful anaesthesia. Three gigong doctors’ ATP and energy were determined before and after QA. It was found that OA resulted in tremendous reduction of ATP, their contents implying that QA performance was a strong energy consumption process. QA, as a trial following the experiment of acupunctural anaesthesia, has shown certain clinical results. Our experiments have perliminarily explored its material basis and analgesic mechanism and laid a foundation for further study. A RESEARCH ON “ANTI-AGING” EFFECT OF Q/GONG Wang Chongxing, Xu Dinghai, Qian Yusheng and Kuang Ankun (Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China) Substantial data have shown that with the increase of age, the organism degrades _ gradually and aging causes diseases, which in turn accelerates the aging process, forming a vicious cycle. It is advisable in the anti-aging research to combine intimately the anti-aging methods with the procedures for prevention and treatment of the geriatric disesaes. Since 1958 We have focused on a research of gigong for the prevention and treatment of geriatric diseases - 85 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R 00701080001-1 and anti-aging process. Here is a preliminary report. 1, 204 hypertension patients were randomly divided into the qigong group (qigong with small dosage of antihypertensive drugs, N=104) and the control group) (with small dosage of antihypertensive drugs only, N=100), there is a comparability in age, sex, occupation, duration and stage of disease, blood pressure levels, program and directions for drug administration between two groups. After a period of 20 years, foll w-up results were as follows; (1). The effective rates in the gigong and the control groups! were 85. 00-90. 20% and 66. 67--69. 07% respctively (P<.0. 05-0. 001) . (2) During the period of 20 years, accumulative mortality rate in the gigong group was 17.31%, its strdke mortality rate was 11.54%, while in the control group, they were 32.00% and 23.00% respectively. Both rates in the qigong group were much lower than that in the control group| (P<0. 05--0. 001) . (3) 20 years follow-up showed that the blood pressure levels gradually rised in the control group, while it was relatively stable in the qigong group (4) When hypertension was controlled, various accompanying geriatic diseases (e.g. coronary heart disease and diabetes) and aging manifestation were relieved. These results indicate that qigong is an effective measure for preventing and treating geriatric diseases, and anti-aging prdcess. 2. With the application of the biocybernetical principle and method of a computer analysis, the EEG of 220 subjects was made. All the subjects were divided into four groups: 83 healthy adults, 42 healthy aged, 33 hypertensive patients praditising qigong and 62. hypertensive patients who didn’t practise gigong. Analysis indexes includéd height and width of low frequcency power spectrum, high power spectrum of Q band, freducency shift of power — spectrum peak of a band and amplitude smoothing of transfer functior. Experiment showed that the incidence of abnormal indexes in the aged group was higher than that in the adult group, while the incidence of abnormal indexes in the hypertensive grdup was the highest in the aged group. In the hypertensive group, the incidence of abnotmal indexes of EEG information was 40.3%, 48.4%, 19.4% and 41.9% respectively, while in the gigong group, they were 27.3%, 30.0%,0% and 33.3%, respectively. The above results indicate that gigong plays a major role in the improvement of the brain function of the hypertensive aged patients. | 3. Abnormality of sex hormones was an important cause in disesacs and aging process. (1) The concentration of estradiol and estradiol (CE2) /testosterone (T) ratio in the plasma of 70 male patients with hypertension was higher than those! of the healthy male subjects. These patients were allocated to the gigong (N-42) and control groups (N=28) . After one year treatment, E levels, E2/T ratio in plasma of patients in the qigong group « 86 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 decreased 22. 41-+4.14 (pg/ml) and 4. 831. 28 (x 107° ) respectively, whereas there was no significant change in the control group. (2) Female aging process was associated with failure of the ovarian function manifasted by decreased estradiol and testosterone levels. The levels of sex hormones in plasma were measured in 22 menopaused femele patients with hypertension. After one year treatment, the decreased concentration of E2 and T was elevated and values determined were 51.6 + 3.5 (pg/ml) and 37.2+2.2 (ng/dl) respectively. These results suggest that gigong can regulate the abnormal sex hormones though the patterns in males and females are somewhat opposite. Qigong can nourish the essence of life, reinforce the kidney and delay aging process. 4. From the theroy of TCM, premature aging is mainly due to the imbalance of yin and yang . According to the physiological function and the nature of two-direction regulation of cAMP and cGMP, there is an interioar relation between cyclic nucleotides changes and yin and yan deficiency. The level of plasma cAMP in the yin-deficiency group was elevated, while in the yang-deficiency group the level of plasma cGMP was elevated and cAMP/CGMP ratio was decreased. 70 hypertensive patients were diveded into yin-deficiency (N = 32) and yang-deficiency (N=38) types based on traditional Chinese medical classification. Each of the two types was subdivided into the gigong and control group. After one year of qigong practice, the elevated cAMP level tended to decrease in the yin-deficiency patients, while the elevated cGMP also tended to decrease and the lowered cAMP/cGMP ratio tended to rise in the yang-deficiency patients, whereas, a significant change could be seen in the two control groups. These results suggest that gigong can correct both yin deficiency and yang deficiency syndromes and provide a scientific basis for the theories of tradictional Chinese medicine. The above study indicates that gigong is an effective measure in preventing, treating geriatric diseases and delay the aging process. + 87 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : C1A-RDP96-00792RP00701080001 | A BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF Q/GONG ON IMPROVING THE HEART FUNCTION AND RELIEVING MULTI in CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS Wang Chongxing, Xu Dinghai, Qian Yuesheng fre Huang Meiling (Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, Shanghai, China) Hyrertension is a common disease among the middle-aged and elderly people. It is also one of the important risk factors for coronary heart disease (GHD) . |In order to study the effectiveness of gigong therapy in treating CHD, comparison of clinical and experimental study of 120 cases of hypertension incorporated with CHD was performed. he paper presents the results of a preliminary study of this subject. 1, 120 cases of hypertension with CHD who had consistently taken priihypertnsive drugs were divided randomly into the gigong group (gigong with small dosage of routine antihypertensive drug N=60) and the control group (with routine antihypertensive drug N=60 only) . There was a comparability in age, sex, course, blood pressure, retinopathy, ECG manfestation, as well as administration of antihypertensive drug. After one year treatment, in the gigong group blood pressure in 86.7% cases went down, 62.16% showed relief of clinical symptoms. ECG manifesation improved in 52.6% cases, while jin the control group, they were 65.0%, 34.8% and 22.2% respctively (P<<0. 05—0. 001)) . The result suggests that gigong is effective to hypertention with CHD. 2. Systolic time interval (STI) was measured in 30 hypertensive patients with coronary heart disease. Before practising qigong, the mean cardiac output (CO) was decreased, but the mean total peripheral resistance (TPR) and ratio of PEF /LVP were increased. After practising qigong for one year, the observated results showed that CO was increased, TPR was decreased, and the ratio of FEF/LVEFP tended to be normal. Ultrasoni _cardiogram (CUCG) was also performed on 30 patients. Before practising gigong, the Ejection Fraction CEF) and mean velocity of circumferential fiber lengthening (mvef) was decreased. After one year’s qigong practice, the EF and mvef tended to be increased. The results mentioned above indicate that qigong has a regulatory effect on haemodynamic alteration as well as on improvement of the left ventricular function. 3. Before and after 6 months practice of qigong, plasma Dopamine-(Hydroxylase activity (DBH) was measured in 20 hypertensive patients. Before treatment mean plasma DBH * 88 » . { Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 activity was 19.67-41.45Iu, after 6 months of practising qigong, mean plasma DBH activity was 18.27 + 50Iu. (P< 0.05) .It suggests that qigong can reduce the excitability of sympathetic nervous activity. 4. Before and after qigong practice for 6 months, blood viscosity and platelet aggregate were measured in 30 hypertensive patients. After 6 months of practising qigong, plasma TC and Ch concentration were decreased, while plasma HDL-c level was increased significantly. 6. Plsama testosterone (T) and estrediol (F2) were measured by radio-immunoassay in 58 male patinets with hypertension. These patients were divided into the qigong group (N= 34) and the control group (N= 24). After treatment (one year), the result was quite different between the two groups, indicating that qigong has a definite regulatory effect on abnomal sex hormones. According to our past and present investigations, we believe that qigong plays a major role in improving the heart function and relieving the mutiple cardiovascular risk factors and is an effectice measure for preventing and treating CHD. CHANGES OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND MICROCIRCULATION UNDER THE Q/GONG STATE Chu Weizhong et al. (Central Laboratory of Shanghai Qigong Institute , Shanghai, China) In this paper the effect of a quiet mind (or mood stillness) and breath holding on cerebral blood flow and microcirculation is reported and the qigong mechanism is discussed on the basis of the relation between gi and blood. 1. Material; 115 patients suffering from different chronic diseases participated in this test. Among them there were 55 men and 60 women, aged from 27--29. They learnt the gigong exercise and became well cooperated during the examination. In addition, the microcirculation of 5 gunia pigs and 2 mice were also examined. 2. Method ; (1)State of relaxation and stillness. We observed; A. Cerebral blood flow with an instrument of impedance electrogram (bridge type) and amplitude of differentiation of electrical impedance. BB. Registered * 89 e Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 %g fingertip’s pulsation with a physiological recorder. C. The microcirculation of the nail capillary with a 80 X anatomical microscope under a reflected cold light jouree (2) State of breath holding. A. When the patients were entering the deep and slow breathing State, we again examined the cerebral blood flow. B. we examined the microcirculation of the meninx in laboratory animals during breath holding in the simulated qigong state. | 3. Results; | ‘(1)State of relaxation and stillness. | A. Cerebral blood flow; 12 cases were examined with the bridge type and 15 were examined with differentiation, the amplitude obviously decreased in all patients, from 0. 143 + 0. 052 to 0.123 +0.056Q (P<0.05) and from 9.75mm to 8.63mm (P< 0. 001) respectively. 16 cases of the control group had very slight change fram 0. 160+ 0. 05Q to 0.150 +0.05Q (P<.0.05) . B. Fingertip pulsation, 34 cases wére examined 6. 8—11 minutes after the qigong state, the pulsation increased from 9. 86 + 4. 28mm to 15.75 + 7.3mm (P<0. 001), and then gradually returned to the level before the gigong state. C. Nail’s microcirculation; Total 26 cases were examined, in which 7 cases! capillary loops of the nail became more clear, the number of capillary loops in 2 cases increased, the length of loops increased in 8 cases and the speed of blood flow increased in 12 ee from 315.6+— 220. Ou/sec. to 512.5254. 6u/sec. (P<0. 001). (2)Breath. holding state. A. Cerebral blood flow; In 49 cases with breath holding for 30 sebonds, ‘the impedance amplitude increased from 0. 154 +0. 06Q to 0.170+0.070 (P< 0. G5); in 20 cases with deep breathing, the amplitude dectreased form 0. 187-E0. 052 to 0. 165-40. 052 (P<0. 05). B. Microcirculation of meninges in laboratory animals in simulated breath holding for 30 sec. showed vasodilatation and increased blood flow. But the breath holding lasted for more: than 30 sec. , the blood flow gradually decreased from 300u/sec. to 100u ; sec. and blood stream became sluggish and finally stopped, 4, Discussion; (1) When patients entering the relaxation and stillness state, the cérebral blood flow was decreased and the peripheral circulation was improved. (2) When patients were in the state of breath holding for 30 sec, the cerebral blood flow was decreased (same to that of the laboratory animal) . The optional time for breath holding was 15-20 sec. (3) The above is due to the changes of gi and blood in the gigong state The mechanism is e 90 e : H H 4 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 to be explored. A STUDY OF TREATMENT OF SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS BY QIGONG Zhu Jiru and Pei Xirong CENT Hospital, Shanghai Medicine University, Shangnai Qigong Association , Shanghai, China) 42 cases (76 eats) were treated by the qigong therapy in our hospital from 1985-1986. They had been treated by Westen. medicine or tradifional Chinese medicine with failure. Among them 34 cases were bilateral deafness, 8 were unilateral deafness. 30 cases were men, 12 were women. The average age was 43.5 years old (from 20-70) and the average course of deafness was 7. 2 years (from 3 months—15 years). Pattern; Wudang qigong was practised. It included three parts; the quiescent, dynamic accessoy qigong exercises. The first one consisted of two forms; the Wuji form and Tavjt form; the second consisted of twelve movements; the third consisted of five movements. The patients did the exercises collectively for one hour from 6-7 o’clock in the morming. The practice lasted for 2 months and in this period no medication was given to improve hearing. Criteria of effect; We used the average value of the ait conduction of the speech frequency (500, 1000, 2000 Hz) as the criterion of hearing . For elusion of errors we adopted the same audiometry (DZ-IB type electric audiometer), technician, time (8-9 A.M. ) and method of examination. Examination was done before and after the course of treatment. For those who decided to do the exercise for 3 months, anotner audiometry was conducted in the middle when the term ended. At least 10dB hearing increase was considered effective. Therapeutic effect; Among 76 ears effectiveness was found in 18 ears (the effective rate was 23.7%), among which, the hearing of 6 cars increased more than 15dB (7.9%) . Among the 42 patients, 28 (54 ears) had tinnitus, which decreased subjectively in different degrees to 29 ears (53.7%) Types of deafness and therapeutic effect; There are six types of deafness; Sudden deafness, drug toxic deafness, senile deafness, noise deafness, deafness due to multiple causes and others. The last one includes hereditary deafness (2 cases, 4 ears), deafness after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (1 case, 2 ears), deafness after brain concussion (1 case, 2 ears) . According to the treatment gigong therapy was ineffective to the hereditary - 91. Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
i } Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 i i i ( deafness, poor effect to the drug toxic deafness and noise deafness, but) it had better effect on the senile deafness, 2 cases of which (4 ears) after doing qigong exetdises for one and a half month, had a decrease of speech frequency of air conduction for 7-10dB in the first one and a half months for qigong practice, but in another one and a half months, the hearing didn’t continue to decrease. We assume that the gigong therapy may preverit the development of senile deafness. Types of deafness and therapeutic effect veaing increased at least 10 dB Types of deafness Bath % i Sudden deafness 22. | Drug toxic deafness 14. Senile deafness 33. Noise deafness 16. Deafness due to multiples cause 20. Others 25, Total 23. Duration of the gigong exercise and the therapeutic effect, The duration of the gigong exercise varies from one month (13 cages) to 2 months (9 cases) and 3 months (20 cases). The therapeutic effect was nearly the same for different duration. We don’t know if prolonged practice can increase hearing. Among the 20 cases (38 ears) which did the gigong exercise for 3 months, the average value of the speech frequency of air conduction increased less than 5 dB ip 5 ears (13.2%), but at the low frequency (25 Hz), the hearing increased 10-15dB (13dB on an average), at the high frequency (4000Hz), the hearing increase over 5dB was nhever seen Chearing decrease 1 dB on an average) . The increase of hearing at low frequencty was an accidental phenomenon. The cause remains to be explored. No side-effect was found in the exercise. + 99 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 FURTHER EXPLORATION OF THE MECHANISM OF Q/GONG IN TREATING BRONCHIAL ASTHMA AND CHRONIC BRONCHITIS WITH THE AID OF SEVERAL NEW TESTING METHODS Huang Hua, Shen Bin, Shang Kezhong (Shanghai No. 6 Pcople’s Hospital, Shanghai, China) Since 1958 we have used a combined treatment for bronchial asthma with Western and traditional Chinese medicine, in which gigong takes a main role. From 1970’s we extended this combined treatment to chronic bronchitis. On the basis of a comparatively good clinical effect, its mechanism has been further explored. In order to make more detailed clarification , we have used three new testing methods in the past three years to test the amplitude of diaphragmatic movement (by time distance or DT) and its form, the TcPO, and TePCO, and the variation of pulsating pressure of the fingertip arterioles (P.P.F.) before and after the ggong exercises. All showed significant difference. Here is the report summary ; 1. Ventilatory movement of the right hemi-diaphragm: studied by video-fluorography correlated with qigong; 24 cases skilled in the gigong exercises were observed. Among them, 11 - cases did the relaxation qigong exercises, 13 did the “small gi cycle exercise”. Results of the video-fluorograpgy showed the average value of the sum (DD) of distance travelled during upward and downward movements of the diaphragm before the relaxation gigong was 54. 6mm + 14.8mm; while that measured in performing of the relaxation qugong was 72.6mm - 23.6mm, the statistical comparison of DD before and during the qigong exercises showed T= 2.96 (P<0.05) . For the small gi cycle exercises the average value of DD before the performance was 46.3mm + 24.7mm; while during the qigong exercises the average value was 95.4 + 57.4mm. Statistcal comparison of DD before and during the small qi cycle exercises showed T= 3.68 (P<<0. 01). Observation of the difference of the movement of amplitude in the anterior, middle and posterior part of the diaphragm simultaneously ; 1 /3 of the anterior was the smallest, 1/3 of the middle the largest and 1/3 of the posterior lies in between the two. There was no sigificant difference before and during the gigong exercises. We observed the time distance of the diaphragmatic movement (the distance moved in a fixed time period, DT mm/min. ), and discovered that in the middle stage of DT of the small gi cycle qigong there was one or more short standstill and a little fluctuation of DT (reverse movement in the course of respiratory cycle) in persons practising the small qt cycle exercise. * 93 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
| | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 | | 0.05), whereas the values before and during the small qi cycle exerciese showed T= 3.68 (P<0. 01). The By video recording, an exact measurement was made of the DT. The statistical analysis of the values before and during the relaxation gigong showed T = 2. 23 rel expansion of DD leads to a decreased respiration frequency. This wag more evident in the small gi cycle exercise. The frequency of respiration per minute reduced to 2-3 times. P< 0. 001 was found before and during the two forms of qigong. Prolongatfon of DT, reduction of respiration frequency and reduction of total quantity of diaphragmatic movement showed . that during the qigong exercise the status of exhaustion nature of energy, metabolism would be transformed to a status of energy storage. In terms of the disputed paradoxical abdominal respiration it was proved by the appearance of the reverse movement of diaphragm seen in the video recording. The X-ray diaphragm video recording gave better observation of the diaphragmatic movement than the ultrasound technique; thus a new testing method to explore the mechanism of the clinical effect and special status has been found. 2. TcPO, and TcPO, measurement: 30 cases in total were measured. Among them 22 had better gigong training. After exercises their TcPO, all decreased (T==5. 45 P<0. 001). 8 cases did not have good gigong training. Their TcPO and TcPO, before and during the gigong exercise showed no sigificant difference (P<.0. 05) . Before gigong exercises the TcPO, value was lower than normal and increased to the normal value after gigong exercises. It showed that qigong exercises would change the body status, from that of “energy exhausting (oxygen exhausting)” to “energy storing” ( TcPO, ). 3. Testing by P. P. F. : It was measured under the pressure 40mmHg, 50mmHg and 60mmHg. P.P. F. showed changes before and during qigong exercises. There were 10 cases tested under 40mmHg pressure, 9 cases under 50mmHg and 7 cases under 60mmHg. After qigong exercises P. P. F. increased to some extent in each case, but all within the normal range. |P value was < 0. 05- -0.01. The fact explains the theory of “blood is commanded by qi” jin traditional Chinsese medicine. Qigong exercises may improve the blood circulation through the regulation of qi and blood of the human body. 4, Discussion; According to the results of the three new testing methods, togethet with the experimental observation of the various biophysical phenomena in the past, we think)that the mechanism of the curative effect of gigong in treating bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis may be explained as follows; (1) Qigong can regulate the function of cerebral cotrex and vegetative nerve system. + 94 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 (2) Qigong can improve the function of respiration. (3) Qigong can regulate gi and blood, ying and yang of the human body. The X-ray video recording of diaphragm movement, TcPO, test and P. P. F. test provide further evidence for the last two hypothesized mechanisms. A STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF THE EMITTED QJ COMBINED WITH SEIF-PRACTICE OF QIGONG IN TREATING PARALYSIS Huang Meiguang (The General Hospital of PLA, Beijing , China) 43 cases of paralysis, 19 cases of hemiplegia and 24 of paraplegia were treated by the emitted gi combined with self-practice of gigong. Method; 1. Qigong masters emitted their gi from Laogong (P 8) and Shixuan (Extra 10) towards the running course of the meridians of the patient 2-3 times a day. 2. Qigong masters used his emitted gi to massage points of the patient once every other day. 3. Under the instruction of a master and according to the condition of the myodynamia the patient did the gigong exercise 1-2 times a day to restore the function. Result; 1. Relief of symptoms. The mental status, sleep, appetite, local perspiration Climbs) , speaking ability,etc. were all obviously improved. 2. Changes of myodynamia. The myodynamia of the paralytic limbs was improved in most cases (35/34) from 0-2 degree to 3-5 degree, which means the ability of performing active movement. Some of the cases were completely recovered. 3. Walking. Before treatment 37 of the 43 paralytic patients had needed support in walking. After treatment 23 cases could walk without any help. Only 20 cases were still dependent on crutches. But some patients previously used wheel chairs now could walk with crutches, and those who originally walked with a pair of crutches now use only one crutch. 4. Managing of dally ilfe. . 95 *. Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
| Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 i i Before treatment 36 of the 43 cases could not manage their | own daily life. After treatment 34 were capable of taking care of themselves. In Comparison with the indices before and after treatment, statistically significant. Judged by the indices of rehabilitation commonly used, the difference was the effect of treatment was excellent in 10 cases (23. 25%), good in 20 cases (46.5%), fine in 1D cases( 23. 25%), bad in 3 cases (6,99%). The total effective rate was 93.01%. The mark 69. 76%. | | \ edly effective rate was OBSERVATIONS OF THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECT ON MYOPIA OF TEENAGERS PRACTISING “RELAXING AND QUIESCENT Q/GONG FOR EYES ” Wu Binjiang, Jiao Guorui and Zhang Honglin Cinstitute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing , China) t i “The Relaxing and Quiescent qigong for Eyes” designed by our tesearch room has been used to treat 241 pupiles with myopia (421 eyes in total) in the Don Beijing, and satisfactory result was obtained. Before the treatment, all the pupils had had myopic and hy optometry after mydriasis and fundus examination. Then diagnosis zhimen High School, | etopic examinations, id myopia was given. Furthermore, identification was made between pseudo-myopia and myopia. The patients were divided at random into two groups; the treating group. The former practised “Relaxing and Quiescent gigong for Eyes” | | setting-up exercises of eyes. Criteria of effect; (1) Marked effect; Vision improved by three li Vision improved more than one line; (A) Failure; Vision decreased more than one line. guoup and the control and the latter did the $s; (2) Effectiveness; n (3) Unchanged; Vision moro less than one line; Results; after 2-month treatment in the treating group the marked L efect was 25% of the total, the effectiveness was 61.8%, the unchanged was 13.1% and total effectiveness reached 86.8% and the total effectiveness for true comparing with the control group, there was great difference (P<<0. effect of the treating group was apparently higher than that of the vor « 96 failure was 0%. The myopia was 82%. In 01). trol group. There was The therapeutic Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 no marked difference of the therapeutic effect in different age group. Effectiveness was in direct ratio with the duration of practice of qigong. This treatment was not evidently effective for the refraction change of those with simple myopia (<3. 0D), This qigong exercise is easy to learn with no untoward effect. It is an exercise to adjust the local and the whole body. Clinical results show that “The Relaxing and Quiescent Qigong for Eyes” has satisfactory therapeutic effect in treating myopia, but the mechanism of the treatment needs further study. A CLINICAL OBSERVATION OF Q/GONG AS A THERAPEUTIC AID FOR ADVANCED CANCER PATIENTS Sun Quizhi and Zhao Li (Kuangan Men Hospital, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing , China) One hundred and twenty-three cases of advanced cancer treated simultaneously with drugs and gigong has been reported in this paper. These were in-patients of our Department during the past 5 years. Among them there were 60 males and 63 females, the youngest was 20 years old, the average age was 47 years old. These patients were diagnozed pathologically as malignant cancer, 70 cases were in the III Stage, 53 cases in the IV stage, of which, cancer of stomach accounted for 42.23%, cancer of the large intestine 31.70%, mastocarcinoma 11.29%, and cancer of the esophagus and cardial carcinoma 8.1%. The 123 patients were divider into two groups. The observation group including 97 cases treated with drugs and gigong exercises, the control group, which consisted of 30 cases, was treated by drugs alone. Similar drug was given to the two groups. Each patient who received the therapy of drugs and gigong did the gigong exercise for over 2 hours a day, 3 months as a course, the longest might be up to 6 months. Symptoms, signs, body weight and immunological indices, ete, were recorded before and after treatment. The results were as follows, 1. Amelioration of general symptoms; 81.7% of the patients regained strength, 63% improved appetite, 33.3% were free from diarrhea or ittegular defecation in the observation group, while the rates of the patients in the control group were 10%, 10% and 6% e 97 e Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 respectively. The difference between the two groups is significant (P<0. 01). 2. Body weight; In the observation group, 50. 54% of the patients’|body weight increased more than 3 kg, and 5.4% of the patients’ body weight decreased mote than 3 kg. In the control group, the patients’ body weight increased or decreased by 3 kgiand more, accounting for 13.33% and 30% respectively. The difference between the two ardups is marked. 3. Phagocytosis of macrophages; In the observation group, the phagocytic rate of macrophages of the patients was 34. 68+8. 90 % before the therapy, and it became 46. 98+ 8.20% after the treatment, increasing by 12. 31%; the phagocytic indices of macrophages were 0. 45+0. 108 and 0.63-+0. 130 respectively before and after the combined therapy. In the control group the phagocytic rate did not elevate, but decreased by 7.87%, the phagocytic indices were 0.63 + 0.183 and 0.50+ 0. 138 respectively before and after the drug therapy alone. There is a marked difference between the two groups. 4.In addition, it has been observed that the erythrocyte sedimentation of 23 out of 93 patients, and the hepatic function of 20 out of them in the observation group have turned to normal, while there were only 3 cases whose erythrocyte sedimentatiqn, and 2 cases whose hepatic function have turned to normal in the control group. The difference between the two groups is significant. , To sum up , it suggests that the gigong therapy is helpful to m4 extent to ameliorating the symptoms, improving appetite, strengthening constitution and increasing the ability of self-cure. Qigong can regulate the mind, heart, qz and blood so as to det rid of pessimism and eliminate the evil factors, therefore it is really an effective, simple, jeasy and no side-effect supplementary treatment. i Because limited cases were observed and the time of observatipn was shorter, it is necessary to do further study. A CASE OF CEREBROATROPHY CURED BY| Q/GOING Zhao Guang (Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine , Bejiing , China) \ Xie Qigang i (Beijing Normal University , Bejiing , China) Cerebroatrophy is a difficult disease with symptoms of dizziness,| inert thinking, stupid + 98 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080004-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 facial expression, feeling top heavy and motion impairment. Case analysis; Xie Shijun, male, 79 yeas old, teacher. He felt dizzy, slow in thinking, top heavy, motion impairment, etc. He gradually lost his ability of reading and work. He was always dozing off, and seldom, if ever, liked to talk to anyone. He had been treated by modern medicine and traditional Chinese medicine with failure. On January 4, 1987, the patient started to follow my advice and do the “ Quan Zhen Gong ” twice a day in the morning and evening. He sat still and relaxed the whole body, expecting or thinking of something like a small ball stirring in the abdomen all around. Each time it would take him half an hour or so to do the exercise. On February 5, he went to the hospital for a C. T. examination, which determined his trouble to be cerebroatrophy. Having sufficient confidence, he made up his mind to follow the qigong therapy insistently and ceaselessly. He did four times of gigong exercise daily, two in the morning and two in the evening. His mental energy seemed to be coming back and to increase. He did not sleep so often and so much as before, he could walk about in the house. On April 9, he began to receive the emitted qi from me. Immediately after the treatment he was able to walk about a little. From July 25, acting upon my advice the patient ceased to come to the hospital but to do the exercise at home, because he was much better. The patient resumed his self-exercising under the care of the university’s gigong cum psychology therapy service group. Now quite a different picture may be presented here about the former invalid. He has completely come to. He lives and works in normal way. He is mentally active again and has a spirited complexion. He can walk upstairs and downstairs by himself and walk without a stick. , quite a different man from the invalid that he was. On March 30, 1988, the hospital submitted the patient to another C. T. examination. It was confirmed that his disease had gone off. The back-to-health state was such that his cerebrum was better conditioned than that of a man of the same age who had not had cerebroatrophy ever. « 99 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 i i i H i A CLINICAL OBSERVATION ON THE LIVER AND GALL STONES TREATED WITH Q/GONG . i Li Jinzheng (Bejiing Institute of TCM, Bejing , China) Liu hekun (Shenyang Institute of TCM, Shenyang, China) i i i There were only a few reports concerning with qigong treatment of lithiasis in recent years. But with the development of ultrasonoscopic methods, the idetection rate of this if common disease is tising. As there is an obvious effect with Western and Chinese pharmacotherapy, we gave systematical gigong treatment to 15 cases Ire did not respond to ‘i Chinese and Western pharmacotherapy. Each case was treated with qigong for 2-3 courses. The average number of treatments was 20-25 times. Different effects were found after treatment. According to a common criterion to determine the effects, among the 15 cases, 7 cases were cured (47.6%), the number of effective cases was 6 (40.0%), and that of non- effective cases was 2 (13.4%), the total effective rate being 86.6%. | Analysis ; | 1. Site; (1) Of 4 cases of hepatolithiasis, 3 were cured, and the name of effective cases was 1. (2) The 2 cases of choledocholithiasis both were cured. (3) Of 9 cases of cholecystolithiasis, 2 were cured, the number of effective cases wags 5., and that of non- effective cases was 2. The results showed that the therapeutic affect in patients with cholecystolithiasis was not so good as that in patients vie hepatolithiasis or choledocholithiasis. | 9, Number and size of stones; The number of cured, effective and non-effective cases in ! patients with stones larger than 1. 0cm in diameter was 4,2 and 1 respectively , whereas that in patients with stones smaller than 1. 0cm in diameter was 3, 4 and | respectively. So when the diameter of the stone is larger than 1. Ocm, the effective rate is smaller. te 3: 0: 0 in the first 3. Age; According to the age the patients were divided into 3 groups, lie. , under 30, 30-50 and 50-60. The number of cured, effective and non-effective cases w group, 2:4: 1 in the second group, and 2: 2: 1 in the third grou. This suggests that the curative tate is higher in young patients than in old patients, and that it is concerned with «100+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 body sensitivity. The results of the obervation showed that the function of the emitted qi and gigong may be anti-inflammatory, spasmolysis, anti-stone and stone-dispelling without side-effects. This is a new way of combining Western with tradtional Chinese medicine and is worthy of further resarch. THE ROLE OF QIGONG AND TAIJIQUAN IN RESPIRATORY REHABILITATION Sun Yinxing et al. (Sino-Japan Friendship Hospital , Beijing , China) The cardiac and pulmonary functions diminished gradually with age. The respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, corpulmonale, etc. seriously impair the health of the people. The incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and occupational pulmonary diseases is increasing due to cigarette smoking and air pollution. The respiratory rehabilitation is one of the tasks of the rehabilitation professionals. Qigong and Taijiquan are the important parts of traditional Chinese medicine. 14 outapatients were divided into qigong and Tat jiquan groups at their own will. There wete 13 men and 1 woman, from 58 to 72 by age’ (mean 64, 2941.97 years) . All of the patients suffered from the cardiac or pulmonary disease. 11 of them smoked for more than 20 years . A thorough medical history, physical examination and laboratory tests such as ECG, UCG, bdlood-lipid and lung function tests were worked out in order to establish definite diagnosis and to rule out contraindications. Then, they were taught qigong and Taijiquan , 3 times a week. After 3. 5 months patients can do the exercise by themselves. 18 months later, the lung function tests were repeated with the same pulmometer (Chestac-65 made in Japan). . After 18 months of exercise, the lung function tests were markedly improved. The vital capacity (VC) of 14 patients increased by 3. 31 % on an average (P<.0. 05). The total lung capacity (TLC) of 14 patients increased by 7. 34% (P>0. 05). TLC of 6 patients were abnormal before the exercise and 4 of them became normal after the exercise. 4 of the 14 cases increased by more than 15%. The forced vital capacity (FVC) of all patients 101° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 improved by an increase of 16. 11% on an average (P<. 001). These results show that both gigong and Taijiquan ate beneficial to respiratory rehabilitation. A CLINICAL STUDY OF CHOLELITHIASIS TREATED BY QIGONG AND EAR-POINT THERAPIES IN 4 Ma Shuan 0 CASES (Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing College of Tradifional Chinese Medicine, Beijing , China) Among the 40 cases, 13 were males and 27 females. Ages were between 41 and 60, 7 cases were 61+ ,3 cases were 407. | 1. Sandy gallstone (Non-operation). 2. Diameter of the gallstone was 1* cm and the patients refused operation. 3. Patients were treated by Western and Chinese medicine for success, 4. Patients were treated by ear-point therapy with failure. Method; 3-6 months without 1. 10 cases were treated by the ear-point therapy as the control group (G.I and 30 cases were treated by the gigong and ear-point therapies (G II). 2. G II did the gigong exercise two-three times a day, 50 minute each. 3. The doctor emitted his gi to the patients simutancously to promete the flow of gi and blood of the patients. Criterion of cure; (1) Marked effect; Discharge of stone 1g* , symptoms removed. (2) Effect; Discharge of stone 1g~ , symptoms removed or relieved (3) Failure, No discharge of stone and symptoms remained. Effect of treatment. Among the 30 cases, 21 were markedly effective, 9 were effective. were 486 times and the total discharged stones weighed 357. 92g average). » yet relapse seen. The total treatments . 73g. / time on the In the control group all of the cases were effective, The total treatment reached 130 times, and the total dischairged stones weighed 14. 38g. (0. 11g. /time on | the average). Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 Discussion ; 1. The qigong and ear-point therapies do not use any drug or operation. It is good for treating 0.5 cm diameter stones and sandy stone. The curative effect is not superior to Chinese and Western medication. Greasy food and high portein can be taken in the treatment course, 2. Diagnosed gallstone with B-ultrasonic is different from clinical observation. B- ultrasonic’s result is only for reference. 3. The cases of gallstone in females are more than that in males, which is considered to be related to females’ climacteric. The development form of the gallstone is connected with the cholesterol content and endocrine disorders. OBSERVATIONS OF THE CURATIVE EFFECT IN 103 CASES OF CHRONIC ATROPHIC GASTRITIS (CAG) TREATED WITH DAOYING (INDUCING) OR TUINA (RELEASING/RECEIVING) THERAPY (Research Group on Qigong Science, Institute for Industry Health, the National Mechanical Industry Commission, Xi’an, Shanxi Province, China) Chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) is a common yet difficult illness. In our experiment, Daoying and Tuina therapy was applied to 103 cases. Among them 58 were males and 45 females in an average age of 43. The average duration of disease was 7.8 years. The cases had becn identified by gastroscopy and biopsy before admission based on the diagnostic criterion set on the Chongqing Symposium in 1982. Daoying-Tuina exercises (dynamic-quiescent) were done 4 times a day, an hour each. 79 days made a course and no medication for gastrosis was given. 31 Cases were checked with gastroscopy and biopsy, 30 cases with electrogram and 34 cases with immunity detection by the end for the treatment course. Analysis was worked out by comparison both in oneself and with each other. Criterion of effect; Marked effect: Disapperance of abdominal distending pain, anorexia, belching, diarrhea, disappearance or relief of lesions, atrophic gastritis turning to superficial gastritis, or severe atrophic gastritis turning to mild. * 103 + Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
i Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080004-1 Effectiveness; Symptoms relieved, lesions lessened, atrophy of gland lightened for one grade. Failure; No change Results; i The therapy appeared markedly effective in 72 cases (69.9%). The effective cases were 28 (27.2%). There were 3 failures. The total effectiveness was 97.1%. In gastroscopy and pathology examination, the rate was 35.5%, 29.0% Ctotal. 64. 574) 3 48.4%, 38.7% (total; 87.1%) respectively. Electrogastrogram check; Frequency before meals; Before therapy); therapy; 2.57+0.39 (P<0.05). Befo, 18.65; after therapy; 57.5 2.69 + 0. 43; therapy; 54.17-+35. 38; after therapy; 83.67+61.78 (P<<0. 01). Before therapy; 51.348 Amplitude before meals; aften therapy; Immunology examinatin, E-rose knot; 2.32+0. 58; after re therapy; 34.33 + +37. 15 (P<<0. 01) . Frequency After meals; Before therapy ; 2.68+0.35 (P> 0.05) . Amplitude after meals, Before 4%; after therapy; 55.3+7.7% (P<0. 05). Lymphocyto transformation rate; Before therapy; 51.8+7.3%; after therapy: 54.3-+7.5% (P>0. 05). IgG and IgA decreased afte increased before therapy. It is believed that treatment of CAG with qigong has not yet been Our total effective rate is 97.19%. The effective rates of Zhang Jing Xian Yuenian in treatment of CAG with herbs were 88.5%, respectively. Our total effective rate in pathology examination was 73.1%, 61. 4%and 71.7% reported by the three authors mentioned at t the therapy for those documented in China. ren, Xu Zicheng and 97.5% & 93.1% 87.1%, JOVE, lower than It seems to show that Daching-Tuina exrcises would improve the stomach function of those suffering from CAG, mechanism of the therapy was also discussed in the paper. * 104+ improve or adjust the cellular and humoral immunity. The H { Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 THE BIDIRECTIONAL INFLUENCE ON THE ELECTROGASTRIC ACTIVITY IN MAN Feng Yangzheng, Qin Chao, Yu Youmin, Xie Shanling and Guan Songjiang CInstitute for Industrial Health of National Mcchanical Imdustry Committec, Xian (Xian Medical University , Xi’an, China) A traditional sychosomatic therapy known as Daoying-Tuina originated from Shaanxi province. It was applied to 59 cases with chronic atrophic gastritis and gastroduodenal ulcer. The patients were divided into two groups according to their surface electrogastrogram; higher amplitude (>180uv) and frequency (>8.5 per minute); lower amplitude (<(80uv) and frequency (<2.5 per minute). It was obsersved that the indexes of the first group tended to come down and that to go up in the second group after 714 days of practice of the exercise. In addition, it was found that the changes of electrogastrogram in an empty stomach of the qigong masters after practice lasted for 1. 5—2. 5 hours, longer than the un-gigong subjects (30 —AQ minutes) . This study showed that the exercise has a bi-direcdtional regulation effect on the electrogastric activity in man. The possible mechanism of this effect is discussed too. (See tables 1,2,3) Table 1. Changes of electrogsatrogram at pre-and post-treatment with the exercise. Pre-meal Post-meal Course of Groups : ‘ treatment Frequency amplitude Frequency amplitude (times/min. ) (uv) Ctimes/min. ) (uv) Chronic 2.2340. 25 41. 63416. 56 | 2.5840. 23 64. 39424. 13 Atrophic 2. 61-0. 24 75. 34427. 23 | 2. 82-40. 35 95. 71431. 56 Gastritis Gastro- 3. 32-40. 26 273. 54430. 41] 3. 5640. 28 301. 34+54. 2 3. 1140. 22 196. 43441. 38] 3. 28-0. 24 238. 82167. 6 Duodenal Ulcer © 105+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 THE BI-DIRECTIONAL ADJUSTMENT OF BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART RATE BY DAOYIN-TUIN A ON THE ARTERIEAL BLOOD AND HEART RATE Qin Chao (Xian Medical University , Xi’an, China) Feng Yangzheng and Yu Youmin Cinstitute for Industrial Health of National Mechinery Industry Committee, Xi’an, China) Xie Shanling and Guan Songjiang (Shaanxi Association of Qingong, Xi’an, China) Daoyin-tuina is a traditional sychosomatic therapy originated from Shaanxi province, China. This therapy has been found to be highly successful in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. we have observed the effect of it on the rheoencephalogram and finger tip plulsate plethysmogram of the patients. In this paper, the changes of areterial blood pressure (ABP) and heart rate (HR) of 38 subjects with hypertension, hypotension and nomotension have been recorded in the course of its training in 54-+4.2 days. The results showed the blood pressure in the hypertension group tended to come down greatly, that of the hypotension to go up , and that of the nomotension to be no significant changes after the course of treatment (See Table 1). Before and after the gingong exercise the higher ABP or the faster HR group tended to come down, the lower ABP or the slower HR group tended to go up. This study suggests that there is a bi-directional adjustment of of it on ABP and HR. The possible mechanism of this effect was discussed too. Table 1. Changes of ABP in pre- and post-treatment with the exercise. Groups Pre-Cmm Hg) Post-Cmm Hg) Hypertension 180. 5424.7/105.9+15.1} 162+22.1/99411.9 Hypotension 88. 747. 3/56. 2+6. 8 89.3+8.1/61.947. 2 Nomotension 116. 915. 3/73. 4+7.5 | 116.6413. 4/7246. 15 * 107° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 ' THE ORAL-FACIAL SCAR SOFTENED BY QIGONG THERAPY Ma Dingxing (Stomatological Hospital, 4th. Military Medical College , Xi’an, China i; I Scars, pimples and scleroma, especially in the oral-facial region, caused by inflammation, trauma and surgical operation, not only affect apperance but also physiogical function. They are difficult medical problems since medication and reoperation have no effect. | The author has softened the scar tissues by means of gingong therapy with apparent effect in recent years. | Qingong pattern; Natural gingong . | Method; Emitted gi trement was given for 6-10 min. a day, 3-5 days made a course Result; . Scar tissue softened . Pimple smaller . Scleroma flatter and softer i 1 2 3 4. Color from white to red 5. Mouth opening degree wider 6. Facial muscle functions easier The best therapeutic effect appeared in 10 min. after treatment,}| the slowest in 3 to 5 days. Case Report; Case 1; Jiong, male, 7 yrs. old. His left nasal wing and upper lip were damaged by a traffic accident 3 months ago. After the wound healed, a scar tissue sized 1. 8X1. 0x0. 5em could be seen at the left lip and nose region, thus resulting in limitation of the left lip and nasal wing movement. The boy was admitted on Oct. 10, 1987 and treated with the gingong therapy for 10 min. Asa result, the scar tissue became flatter and soft t, freer movement of the lip and nose was apparently seen, and the facial appearance was beffer. Case 2; Song, male, 45 yrs. old, suffering from squamous cell carcinoma at the soft palate. After surgical operation, he complained of a hard and painful scat, which made speaking, swllowing and mouth opening quite difficult for 1 month. On Nov. 20, 1987, on physical examination; there was a 3.81.50. 5cem sized band-shaped reddish and hard: scar at the soft palate; the mouth opening was 2cm. By means of the gingong therapy for 4 days, Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 the scar tissue became smaller and softer day by day; the pain disappeared gradually; the mouth could open as wide as 3. 5cm. Case 3; Zhang, female, 26 yrs. old, there was a broad-bean-sized scar at the right cheek for 2 months caused by a traffic accident. On Dec. 13, 1987, it was found that the scar felt hard and not movable. During the first qigong therapy, the scar became softer in 5 min. and smaller and movable in 10 min. Case 4; Cheng, male, 30 yrs. old, his lower lip had been damaged 5 months ago. The scar adhered to the mucosa of the oral vestibule and alveola, causing the movement of the lower lip very difficult. After 3 times of the gigong therapy, the scar was softened and thinner day by day, the lower lip could move freer. Case 5: Wang, female, 24 yrs.old, her haemangioma of the right cheek had been removed and skin-graft performed 1 year before. On Jan. 20, 1988, it was found that there was a round-shaped, hard red scar at the edge of the grafted skin, 3mm higher than the normal skin. The movement of the right nasal wing and lips became difficult. After 5 times of the qegong therapy,.the scar tissue became flatter and softer gradually, the movement of the nasal wing and lips was apparently freer. Case 6; Li, female, 40 yrs. old, on Jan. 22, 1988, it was found that there was a scleroma at her left cheek following a submasseteric infection, and her mouth could only open 0. 5cm wide. After 3 times of the gigong therapy, the mouth could open 2. 5cm. As reported above, it is shown that the qigong therapy has a softening effect on the oral- facial scar caused by inflammation, trauma and surgical operation. AN OBSERVATION ON THE RESULTS OF DRUG AND QIGONG THERAPY FOR CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASES Li Ziran (Research Institute of Tradtional Chinese Medicien, Tianjin College of TCM, Tianjin, China) Liu Fangying (Tianjin Thorax Surgery Hospital , Tianjin , China) Zhou Renyeng This paper deals with the clinical observation and mechanism of the incurable chronic respiratory diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, asthma, pulmonary emphysema and cor pulmonale, treated by drugs and gigong exercise. Better results have beem obtained. In * 109+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
| ( Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 contrast to the group treated with drugs only, a remarkable difference can be noted (the course of disease and other conditions of both groups are similar) . trustworthy data from 380 cases are as follows (the course of treatment Table 1. Rate of Effectiveness Group Temporary effectiveness Marked effectiveness Improvement The statistically was all for 3 months). Failure Combined therapy G 5(25%) 8(40%) 7(35%) Drug G 1. Analysis of symptoms; 2(20%) In comparison with the two groups, 3(30%) 4(40%) the rate of effectiveness is approximate, 100%) but more symptoms disappeared in the group treated with the combined therapy, and the condition was better than the control too. Symptom Expectoration of phlegm Table 2 Asthma therapy G 4 B-group | Drug group B group Drug group IDisapperarnce|16 (80 % ) 4(40%) 840%) | 2(20%) mee 3(30%) Improve- 315%) ment 5(50%) 9(45%) | 6(60%) 10450%) | 5(50%) No Change | 105%) 2. Alternation of signs; 1¢10%) 38(15%) | 2(20%) 8C15%) 2(20%) The improvement of the group treated by the combined therapy was more significant than the control in every aspect of signs. After having practised the exercise, the patient felt his condition greatly improved than before. This suggests a clear difference in table 3. * 110+ statistically, as shown Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 i { i
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 Generai condifion (appetite, sleep, spirit, energy) Combined Therapry G Dnug G Marked Improvement 18(90%) 2(20%) Improment 2(10%) 6(60%) No Change 2(20%) Table 3 Items Breathing freg(time/m. ) H. RCtime/m. ) Group Before | After Before After treatment Treament treament treament Combined G. 89.1 therapy Drug G Mediastinum muscle Items Rates motoricity (cm) % Before After Disappear- | Group Decrease No change | ance treatment treatment Combined therepy 15(75%) (15%) 210%) G. 2.18 L R Driug G. 4(40%) 5(50%) 1€10%) a i Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 A GROUP OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION BY Q/GONG Li Ziran, Li Lixiang and Zhang Boli (Research Institue of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin College of TCM, Tianjin, China) This paper deals with the observation of curative effect and the primary probe of the mechanism concerning the treatment of primary hypertension by qigong exercise with the assistance of biological feedback instrument. A total of 929 cases were observed in contrast, in which, 639 cases were put under the group of the gigong therapy. Its percentage of effectiveness was 85.13% and that with marked effectiveness was 76.678%, far exceeding that of the control group. Thus the lowering of blood pressure by the qigong therapy has manifested the following distinctive merits; 1. The lowering effect of blood pressure was quick and lasting, and the general symptoms were distinctively relieved. The short term course of treatment for this group was eight weeks. the average range of the step-down of blood pressure was from 23. 14mm Hg to 14. 08 mm Hg. Besides, for some cases, the blood pressure could be lowered by 12 to 20 mm Hg after one practice of the exereise. Furthermore, the lowering effect of diastolic pressure was especially significant. In concurrence with the lowering of blood pressure by the qigong exercise, the physical quality of patients, such as appetite, sleep, spirit and physical status were improved markedly. Other chronic diseases were also cured to some extent. According to the long term tracing visit (1 to 3 years), the percentage of blood pressure stability of those patients insisting on doing the gigong exercises was 97.7% and rarely with relapse. The status of those interrupting the exercises was inferior. 2. The effect of treatment might be enhanced if stress is laid on doing the exercises according to analysis of syndromes, In accordance with the pathogenesis of hypertension, the quiescent pattern of exercises was used to calm the liver and benefit the kidney . Besides, the root cause and symptoms were both considered, and the quiescent dynamic patterns of exercise were combined, so satisfactory effect of treatment was attained. If the instrumental treatment is supplemented in the initial course of exercises, the effect of treatment would be furthermore enhanced and the course of treatment would be shortened. 3. The lowering of blood pressure by the gigong exercise possesses distinctive social and * 113° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 economical benefit. From the viewpoint of the guiding ideology, the direction of prevention and cure, and the means of medical treatment, the lowering of blood pressure by the qigong exercise suit the tendency of development of modern medicine and it is beneficial to the change of medical model, promoting the alteration of individual treatment to community prevention, and the turning of model of biological medicine to the model of psychological-social-biological medicine. The approaches of this research is based on the a coordination of the three level structure of prevention and treatment with the various medical bases.| The enforcement of community prevention in the form of organizing the qigong exercisq classes is not only beneficial to giving full play of the enthusiasm of the medical stafff at various levels, increasing the quantity of prevention and treatment but also help to close the ties between the medical staff and patients, and promote their psychological and mental health. Thus, the psychosomatic disorders could be prevented and cured. Furthermore, the lowering of blood pressure by the gqzgong exercise might cut considerably the medical expenses, evade the side- effect of drugs and raise the rate of attendence and labour productivity, so its economical benefit is also rather significant. In the course of clinical treatment, with the exception of observing the system of blood pressure, for a part of patients measurements of blood bio-chemistry (cholesterol, triglyeride, lipoprotein of low density, etc. ), microcirculation, blood rheology, index of immunology, resistance value of meridian points, and skin temperature were made, and the type of disposition was tested. The physiology effect of the lowering of blood pressure by instrument and the qigong exercise and its mechanism was discussed. The results show that, the various laboratory indices before and after the gigong treatment have been changed distinctively and the majority of statistical treatment possesses significant meaning (P<.0. 01) This implies that the gigong exercises have remarkable regulative effect on the central nervous system, vegetative nervous system, physiology, bio-chemistry, metabolism, endocrine, immunological system of the human body and its system of meridians in traditional Chinese meditine. It shows that in respect of the treatment and prevention of hypertension, various chronic diseases and mental and physical sickness, there lies a vast area for scientific exploration. 7114. Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 OBSERVATIONS ON THE CURATIVE EFFECTS OF THE Q/GONG EXERCISE-“SELF-ADJUSTMENT THERAPY” IN HYPERTENSION Jing Guinian (Hongqiao Hospital of TCM, Tianjin, China) The author has systematically observed the short-term effects and follow-up cases of patients suffering from hypertension stage II treated by qigong exercises. The data are listed as follows; 1. Subjects under observations; 125 cases of primary hypertension stage II patients were chosen. They were characterized by long course of disease with frequent attacks and no satisfactory results had ever been seen after various drugs given. In this experiment, the patients were divided into 2 groups; the qigong expercise group (self-adijustment gigong therapy group) and the medicinal control group, as shown in the following table; Qigong exercise Medicinal control Item . group group No. of cases _ 64 61 Sex male/female (person) 43/21 40/21 Average age (year) 57. 6 56. 6 Average course of disease Cyear ) J1.6 12. 8 Blood pressure(mmHg ) Systolic (average) Diastolic(avarage) The gigong exercise group performed mainly the “relaxation gigong” and “depressurizing gigong” , which were done one hour collectively and one hour individually every day. Patients in the medicinal control group took cow-bezoar bolus to reduce blood pressure, e115. Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : su-popos.corsenboorarosco0'.t , | one bolus each time, two times a day. 2. Observations on curative effects after the experiment started fo 2 months; Results of the depressurizing effects showed the overall effective rate of blood préssure depression in the 64 cases in the gigong-exercise guoup was 85.94%, of which symptoms ameliorated totalled up to 95.8%. In the 61 cases of the medicinal control guoup, the averall effective rate of blood pressure depression was 36.62%, of which symptoms ameliorated totalled 60.05%. The depressurizing range in the gigong exercise group showed the average descent of systolic pressure was 23. 14 mmHg and that of the diastolic pressure 14. 08 mn (P value<<0. 01) The difference was obvious. Variations of blood-fat before and after treatment; In the qigong) exercise group, there were slight increases with TC, HDL-C and LDL-C, but TG dectre control group, all TC,TA and LDL-C decreased but HDL-C increased slightly. sed. In the medicinal Results of much outstanding significance were found by examining the immune globulin for all the cases in the two groups. They showed that in the gigong exercise group IgG decreased obviously and T-lymphocytoesterase increased evidently in all) the patients after they had practised the self-adjustment qigong exercise for two months. . | 3. Long-term investigation; | The auethor has carried out a follow-up study at a regular interval on the blood pressure status of 30 patients practising the self-adjustment qigong exercise for [3 years. The patients’ average systolic pressure maintained constantly around 130. 18mmHg, while the diastolic pressure 84.14 mmHg; the IgG was 15.28, IgA 1.78 and jIgM 1. 04; the T- lymphocytoesterase was 60.6 and together with blood-fat were all aintained within the normal value of that of Tianjin Municipality. Besides, symptoms/of hypertension were basically diminished. It was found from the data recorded during thd long-term visit for 3 years that 66.6% among the cases did not have any of the follo ing symptoms such as aching, distending, dizziness in the head, tightness and stiffness in the neck , feeling top- heavy and thin-stemmed, being irritable and fidgety, or sufferi from insomnia and amnesia. Occasionally, some of the above symptoms might occur in 33.4% of the patients due to an emotional fluctuation or climatic variations, nevertheless, none of the reappeared symptoms lasted over 2 weeks. 4. Analysis and discussion; The author holds that the factual results of the gigong depressurizing effect is prompt with an evident bodily amelioration for quite a long time and with re¢urrence only on rare occasions. It is not obtained from external passive factors such as one mainly because the ° 116+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : cia-nppee-oo7e2Roo701os000%-
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 practitioners have mastered a complete set of gigong exercises, which mobilizes their own potentiality, implements the path for self-adjustment and self-regulation to reduce blood pressure and eliminate symptoms, therefore the efficacy is stablized. Otherwise, the blood pressure will rise again when the practice is given up half way. The next point is about the method of the gigong practice. It is advisable for hypertension patients to choose a set of exercise which is , in principle, performed with fully relaxation of the body, high tranquility in mind. As a matter of fact, the more the relaxation, the deeper the quietness getting into, and the better the effect achieved. Moreover, the gtgong depressurizing function performs obvious economic and social benefits, and will also get rid of medicinal by-effects and drug-resisting problems. The self-adjustment therapy, in addition, is also adventageous to the alternations of medical patterns, in other words, the transformation of biomedical models to psychological, social and biomedical models, which will mobilize and bring the initiative of both doctors and patients into full play, gives free rein to the function of the patients’ internal causes, promoting their mental and psychological health and finally overcomes the obstinate chronic diseases. Therefore, viewing from the significance of the self-adjustment and natural therapy , it is not simply a question of social benefit but an aim of further importance, that is , during the course of qigong practise, patients can mould their temperament, cultivate their morality and calm the seven emotions in attaining the state of beaming and buoyant in spirit, which will nearly prevent any occurrence of diseases. EFFECTS OF Q/GONG ON THE PROSTACYCLIN — THROMBOXANE BALANCE IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASES Zhou Shifang et al (Nanjing Medical College, Nanjing, China) Twenty male coronary heart disease (CHD) patients were divided into two groups at random; qigong therapy group (mean age 62. 6-11. 63 years old) and placebo group (mean age 61. 4-40.90 years old) . The diagnosis of CHD was based on the history of typical angina pectoris and myocardial infarction combined with ECG findings and other laboratory analysis. Another 10 apparently healthy male subjects of similar age (54.7 -£ 1.16 years old) were studied as the control to compare with the laboratory findings. Method : © 117° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R{ 00701080001-1 1 i In order to rule out the influence of the effects of movement, quiescent gigong exercise was selected. The exercise was similar to the ralaxation qigong, and was done collectively in the morning. Then the patients did the exercisc separately atleast 2-3 times a day, lasting for about 30-45 min. each. In the placebo group starch was used. The control healthy subjects did not enter any treatment program but the course of placebo was 2 to 3 months. Measurement; All of the subjects received the graded submaximal exercise test.) Before and after the test, blood was drawn from both arms’ antecubital vein with minimal occlusion. The blood samples were analyzed by radioimmunioassay to measute 6-K-P, the stable metabolite of prostacyclin (PGI2) and thromboxane B2 (TXB2 ) and the stable metabolite of thromboxane A2 (TXA2) . Two weeks before experiment, all subjects had not takqn any drugs known to interfere with the analysis of prostaglandins, such as aspirin, indomethacin, etc.. The determination of plasma 6-K-P and TXB2 levels of all CHD patients were done again after a period of treatment. Results; | |. Before the exercise, the plasma 6-K-P level and 6-K-P /TXB2 ratio of all CHD patients were significantly lower than those of healthy subjects (P<0. 01). These agreed that atherosclerotic plague formation damaged the histologic and function integrity of the endothelium of the vessels in CHD patients, reduced production of PG{2 at the injured site, causing the balance of PGI2-TXA2 to imbalance, and then made the |condition from bad to worse. But the plasma TXB2 level didn’t show any difference between|CHD patients and the normal subjects. This might be explained by the different stage of diseases, most of the CHD patients in our experiment were chronic and stable ones. 2. Neither CHD patients nor healthy subjects had any changes of plasma 6-K-P, TXB2 and 6-K-P/TXB2 ratio after the submaximal exercise. Although we would not exclude the possibility of different response to different exercise and intensity, one conclusion could be drawn that submaxinal exercise did not induce a PGI2-TXA2 imbalance |in most chronic stable CHD patients. | 3. Qigong training for one course significantly increased the pase 6-K-P level (P< 0. 05) and 6-K-P / TXB2 tatio (P<0.01), while in the placebo group, there was no alternation of these indices after the course, and so these values as compared with the gigong group, were significantly different. We suggested that during practice of the quiescent qigong exercise, the patients minds were in total concentration and the whole ody should be highly ° 118+ | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 relaxed, causing the patients to minimize the stress reaction. In the gigong state, the oxygen consumption was reduced, thus improving the oxygen supply to the tissues. In addition, the possible control and regulatory effects of qigong on the neuro-humoral system and the ability of synthesis of PGI2 of the endothelium of vessel should be improved, then the imbalance of PGI2 -TxB2 in CHD patients could be ameliorated. These findings confirmed the value of the gigong therapy in rehabilitation program for CHD patients. A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE EFFECT OF SELF-CONTROL QIGONG ON DIABETES MELLITUS. Gl Wu, Zl Wang, Fr Sung and Yy Wang (Jinling Hospital, Nanjing, China. ) This report demonstrates the effect of self-control qigong on some biochemical profiles in Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Ten moderate-advanced Type 2 diabetics (7 males and 3 females) were chosen in the study. As soon as the stability of the blood glucose level was obtained after a few days’ diet control and rest, the exercise of self-control qigong was taught to the patients and practised twice daily (in the morning and afternoon), 30 min. each time. On the O,° 10th and 20th days, a steamed bread meal test C(SBMT) was performed. In this test, routinely, 100 g best quality flour made steamed bread was taken; fasting blood sample and the blood samples at 1 h and 2 h after the meal were sent for determination of glucose and insulin. In the present study, on mornings of the above-mentioned days, fasting blood samples were sent for determination of cholesterol, trnglyceride, HDL-cholesterol, lactic acid, pyruvic acid and glycosyl hemoglobin in addition to glucose and insulin. Blood samples at lh and 2 h after intake of the bread meal were sent only for determination of glucose and insulin, The results showed that on Day 0, SBMT demonstrated a diabetic curve with blood glucose level higher at 2 h than fasting and at 1 h. On days 10 and 20, Blood glucose levels at 1 h were not altered, but they significantly decreased at 2 h as compared with that on Day 0 (P<0.05), as shown in Table 1. The same condition was with insulin levels (See Table 2). The concentrations of cholesterol and triglyceride’ became lower at thand2h, while ©1196 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : eacetanie indie that of HDL-cholesterol became higher (Table 3) . Concentrations of lactic acid and pyruvic acid were markedly lowered (P<<0.05) as seen in Table 4. There was no change regarding HbA! levels. The self-control gigong is a pattern of dynamic gigong, in which motion of the body as well as peace of mind are required, the latter being particularly emphdsized and attained by concentrative attention to the surroundings or to the practiser’s own unpbilicus, and also by regulation of the patient’s own breath. We are of the opinion that the self-control qigong is an important beneficial adjunct treatment for diabetes. Whether the self-control qigong has any advantage over ordinary fs exercise is as yet unclear and remains to be clarified. Table 1. Changes of blood glucose levels using SBMT during self-control}walking gigong in diabetes mellitus Fasting 1H 174. 1465. 87A 268. 864. 83 286.6484. 44 152. 0+ 66. 67 269. 6173. 59 244. 1 +638. 59 x 163. 4+67. 10 274. 14538. 41 262. 2-677. 53 /\meg/dl * P<0. 05,compared with data on Day O. Table 2. Changes of plasma insulin levels using SBMT during self-control qigong in diabetes mellitus | Fasting 1H 23. B= 13. 74 39. 75-25. 93 16. 4+13. 13 46. 2+32. 49 14,1545. 17 * 49. 9+36. 00 /\uU/ml * P<Z0. 05,compared with data on Day O. * 120° | | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R}00701080001 1 |
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 Table 3. Changes of blood lipids in 20 days’ self-control qigong in diabetes mellitus Cholesterol /A\ Triglyceride HDL-CHA, DAY 0 217.3450. 34 326. 5+661. 63 58. 6410. 0 DAY 10 211.7431. 03 153. 74150. 02 64.749. 53 DAY 20 209. 0435. 69 143. 34117. 38 66. 815. 18 Z\ mg/dl Table 4. Changes of blood pyruvic acid and lactic acid during 20 days’ self-control gigong in diabetes mellitus Pyruvic Acid Latic Acid 1. 485+0. 39 15. 85-4. 37 1.179+0. 36 * 11. 184. 35 * 1. 2630. 31 * 10. 47+4. 83 * Z\meg/dl * P<i0. 05, compared with data on Day O. ON THE ANTI-TUMOR MECHANISM OF CHINESE Q/GONG Wang Junmei (Teaching Hospital of Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Mcdicine, Nanjing, China) Qigong, the precious heritage of traditional Chinese medicine, is a branch of science enabling people to strengthen the body constitution, climinate diseases and extend life expectancy. Through the human conscious initiatives, it induces the body to perform self- regulation and stabilization so as to let the internal body acquire a relative tranquillity, attain the cure of diseases and extend life expectancy. This article presents a study on the unique effect of qigong in helping patients survive some difficult diseases, especially a study over the anti-tumor mechanism of gigong on the basis of a selection of 104 cases of different cancer patients, e.g, esophagus cancer, stomach cancer, rectum cancer, lung cancer, adenocarcinoma of breast, etc. The duration of gigong practice in those patients ranged from 6 «121° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 months to 2 years. Most of them kept on doing such exercises after their operations. Concerning cancer etiology, it is widely held that the antigen structure of the tumor cells is the place where carcinogen works. On the other hand, human immunity against tumor is mainly performed by the cell immune function in the body. Patients were therefore divided into two groups to observe the changing status before and after the qigong therapy. 1. 46 cases of different cancer patients were selected for studying |the content variations of specific types of protein in the body before and after the gigong therapy. The indexes observed include; 4 AAG; 2 AAT; and 3 CER. | 2. 58 cases of different cancer patients were selected for studying the cell immunc function in the body before and after the qigong therapy. LAI and ANAE which indicate the specificimmune reactions were observed. Statistic Normal Pre-treatment Post-treatment . index 40. 7mg%+10. 57 | 48.94mg%+8.47 | 36.64mg%+15.4 P<0. 01 187. 6mg% 15.9 | 204. 4mg%4+61. 44] 179. 32mg% +47. 7] P<0. 01 21.62mg+2.98 | 29. 26mg% +7. 68 34. 4mg% +12. 44 P>0. 05 i 42.0% 49.76 75.27% +12. 26 62.4% 49. 53 | 68. 8%+10. 28 39. 44% +2. 877 47.13% +4. 37 | The above indicates that the specific protein content in Group 1 i presented different AG before and after the treatment were more apparent. And the result of the changes of the] immune functions of changes after the gigong therapy, among which the changes over AAT, cells in Group 2 indicates that the qigong therapy not noly reinforced the| T-cell function , but also performed a two-way immune regulation according to the different steps of immune disorder. Conclusion ; i time. However, it is certain that the antigen related to tumors is composed of cells and the 1. Both the etiology and inducing mechanism of tumor are still “ study at the prsesnt ‘product of cell metabolism, the affected cell memrbane contains some! antigens that do not possess strictly formulated particular embryos. During the embryonic period, the genes in the chromosomes of cells are very active, producing many types of antige s. After birth, the » 122+ | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 control genes are inhibited and have no more production. Once there is a canceronus change in the cell, howrver, they become active again. They will drop off from the cell membrane, as a kind of dissoluable antigen, to be dissolved into the serum, being of sugar protein and mucoglobulin in nature. AAT, AAG and CER, all of which are kinds of sugar protein and mucoglobulin, are the acute reactants in the serum. They will obviously increase in the case of malignant tumor. The decrease of AAT and AAG indicates that the qigong therapy is very significant in the control, alleviation, improvement and rehabilitation of diseases. 2. Qi that is often quoted in Chinese qigong therapy refers to the vital energy in traditional Chinese medicine. It is the motive power of human life. It may change the metabolism in the body, accelerate cell generation, activate the vital energy in the body, and obtain a cure of the disease. The changes of the specific protein reported in this article indicates that the regulation of sugar protein and mucoglobulin due to the gigong therapy is beneficial to the alleviation of diseases. 8, The anti-tumor mechanism of the human body is mainly performed by the immune function of the cells. Therefore, LAI and ANAE were specifically studied in this article. It indicated a decline of LAI and increase of ANAE after the qigong therapy. This explains that the gigong therapy performs a two-way immune regulation according to the different steps of immune disorder, in addition to regulation of the contents of specific protein in the body and controlling the abrupt changes of cells. At the same time, it helps prove that through stimulating the human conscious initiative, the qigong therapy does adjust yin and yang , qt and blood in the body, strengthen the anti-pathogenic qi , dispel pathogenic factors, improve the patient’s constitution, and bring the disease under control. This is virtually the key point for the extension of life expectancy of patients. SPONTANEOUS DYNAMIC Q/GONG (SDQ) (INVOLUNTARY MOTION Q/GONG AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE ' Wu Caiyun and Xu Peixi (Suzhou Medical College, Jiangsu province, China) Qigong is closely related to psychological medicine from both theoretical and - practical points of view. Research on qigong may lead us to have a better understanding of the * 1236 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 mysteries involved in linking the mind and the body of an individual. |Qingong has been used in treatment of certain neurological and psychological diseases. It is a|training including self- control, self-support, telaxation and biofeedback. Hence it is possible that a thorough investigation of gigong would shed light on the role of gigong in psychological medicine. Migong is generally classified into two groups, quiescent gigong and dynamic qigong exercises. In addition, dynamic gigong has a Spontaneous type--spontaneous dynamic gigong (SDQ) . However, the interpretation and evaluation of SDQ vary with different researchers. Some considered SDQ as a modified form of qigong , whereas some conpidered it as an integral part of qigong . For example, Hexiangzhuang Qigong consists of pose dynamic and spontaneous gigong . | It was estimated in 1983 that approximately 45 million people in| China were practising Hextangzhuang Qigong . During the process of practice , various spontaneous motions occurred in 90% of the people. The spontaneous (involuntary) m tions were marked by automatic, primitive and reflective features. It sometimes was acc panied by emotional changes—crying, laughing, shouting or dancing etc. Therefore, peopl¢ once doubted whether these changes were the symptoms of hysteria. We have investigated the effect of spontaneous qigong on medical psychology. The results indicate that spontaneous gigong and hysteria are two different phenomena and belong to different concepts. ; In 1984, in parks and sportsground we examined the personality—-introversion of extroversion type, and MMPI of 48 gignog trainees and of 40 instructors in the Mextangzhuang Qigong training class. The results showed that he introversion type personality accounted for 67%. Among the 48 gegong trainees (32 males, 16 females), the to occur in 93% of these individuals (90% of the males, 100% of the females) : practice. All of the average age was 50. 3 years old, ranging from 12 to 73, and 69% of them graduated from high school or above. Involuntary (spontaneous) motions were foun qigong trainees expressed that they were able to control their own mind. Among the 40 instructors (32 males, 8 females) ,50% of them had received eduation t high school levels or above, and 62.5% were government officials and scientific researchers. Total validity and T value in clinical scale of MMPI were distributed in normal range. Therefore, it appeared to be convincing that neither the gignog trainees nor the instructors represented a special group of population who were prone to hysteria. Not being self-centered, emotional or suggestible, all gigong trainees had a definite aim before doing the exercise. They were perfectly conscious during the process of practice. The will-flower seems to play a 124° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : cia-RDP96-00792R)00701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 major role in initiation, control and completion of the qigong exercise. In most cases hysteria attacks suddenly, and patients exhibit a functional disorder of sensory motor and of autonomic nerves or transient mental abnormality. Hysteria has characteristic symptoms which are produced and disappeared with suggestions. Most cases — occur in females aged from 16 to 30. Hysteria is usually due to acute or continuous mental stress. These patients often have peculiar personality. According to epidemiological data, foreign morbidity of hysteria is 0. 5%, whereas hysteria incidence in Baoding City, (Hebei province, China) is 0. 16%. The difference between SDQ and hysteria Hysteria Age Education level Sex Personality Cause Mechanism of motion Incidence Aim Nature of motion Emotion Consciousness Ending Time After SDQ 50 high school (60%) more for males(70% ) 2/3 for introvert MMPI in normal range on increasing health and medical wish “breathing scatter pathogenic focus” 93.8% active, will dominating over physiological relaxation, quiesc- ence clear spontaneous several ten minutes comfortable, fresh 16 to 30 illiterate(52 %) more for females more for extrovert, 67% for T value high in 1,3,7 clinical scale 73.4% of mental stress — suggestion 0.3% passive, avoiding reality pathological emotional unclear involving suggestion up to hours or days tired, somnolent It would hamper the development of qigong , if SDQ is mistakenly identified as hysteria. In this paper we examined the mental disturbance of 5 cases--3 hysteria and 2 schizophrenia after ° 125° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001 -1 the qigong excercise. At present all of the gignog schools have emphasized that people with hysterical trait or with history of psychosis are not suitable to practise igigong . Based on this information, we were led to hypothesis that qigong may potentiate hysteria and schizophrenia. The present study demonstrated that the relaxing and calming state achieved during the gigong excercise is different from common sleep, hypnosis, artificial hibernation or twilight State. It is a fresh and functional state of the human body, and it may activate conscious activity, thereby making certain qualitative changes at the conscious level. Such changes may link conscious activity with the internal environment of the human body and thus transform the unconscious processes into conscious ones. SDQ may regulate the mental activity by amplifying the expression of automatic reflex and primitive rhythmical |actions. These actions belong to the range of unconsciousness and depressed potentiality. There are many similarities between the idea of consciousness——u consciousness and the consciousness level in the psychoanalysis theory. The expression of hysteria is a symbolic manifestation of unconscious thinking process. The unconscious wish of hysteria is fulfilled in part through practising qigong . Bleuler suggestes that the primary disorder of schizophrenia is the incoordination between thought and affection, and that the link of ideas becomes loose (incoherent idealization). It is possible that gigong may further loose the already loose chain of eas In view of the possibility that gigong may potentiate hysteria and schizophrenia, it is evident that qigong can regulate unconsciousness. By studying these phenomena qigong can bring potential power and unconsciousness into full play. We trust that it is possible to gain a better insights into the pathogenesis, prevention and treatment of mental diseases. Luo Sen, Tong Tianmin, et al. EFFECTS OF “VITAL GATE” Q/GONG ON “TT TUMOUR (Zhejing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou Qigong Hospital, Ha gzhou, China. ) tumours, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma, breast cancer, lun Under the observation in this experiment were 80 patients, with 17 kinds of malignant cancer and gastric carcinoma, their diagnosis was confirmed by cytological and radiological examinations. Within ie this group, 48 were male and 32 females. Most of them had beoh onerated on before +126» | { Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792RP00701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 hospitalization. They were at their I or II stage of the diseases and received radiation or chemotherapy before. These patients were randomly divided into three groups. 30 of them, as the first group, received gigong treatment, the second group, composed of 25 cases, were treated with chemotherapy. And another 25 received chemotherapy combined with qigong exercises learned was called in this experiment “Vital Gate” Qigong , instructed by Luo Sen. Group II were treated by routine drugs. Group III were treated with antimetabolites together with qigong exercises. The parameters adopted included WBC and RBC count, serum hemoglobin and platelet count in blood before and after treatment. T-lymphocyte conversion test ( H* -TdRLT) and urine excretion of 17-hydroxy steroids withing 24 hours before and after the last week of qigong therapy in some of the patients. The total period of observation lasted 60 days. Results are reported as follows. 1. Group I developed a significant rise in their WBC, RBC count and serum hemoglobin after treatment (P<(0. 01). Group II presented a significant lowering (P<<0. 01). Group II showed an obvious elevation of serum hemoglobin, RBC and platelet count (P<<0. 005-0. 01). Their WBC remained at the same level as before the treatment (P>>0. 05). 2. T-lymphocyte conversion test in Group I also gave a significant rise (P<0. 05). It was seen to be maintained at the original level in Group II]. No significant change was noted (P>0. 05). 3. 5 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, after 50 days of qigong exercises, exhibited an obvious lowering in their urine excretion of 17-hydroxy steroids (P<0. 05). This experiment proves that this kind of qigong exercise, by exciting the circulation of gt along meridians and modulating the functions of blood circulation, immune response and endocrine tissues, can minimize the toxic side-effects of chemotherapy and enhance energy supply of the body. This practice is effective in treatment of cancer and supported by confirmed scientific experiment. * 1276 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 i j | | j A CLINICAL STUDY OF Q/GONG BASED ON DIFFERENTIATION OF SYNDROMES( LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION IN 74 CASES) Li Zequan and Liu Lubong. (Guangzhou College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, inn | This is a clinical study based on differentiation of syndromes, by using the left ventricular systolic function as the criterion to evaluate the effectiveness of qigong treatment. an average age of 61+ of 65.3-+3.9. There 1. Subjects; Among 74 cases 57 were males and 17 females by 5.6. The aged group includes 47 cases with an average oe were 60 cases in the control group of the same age. | 2. Differentiation of syndromes and criteria. | was treated by the 3. Qigong patterns; The patients were trained with different types of gigong . According to the theory of differentiation of syndromes deficiency i reinforcing method, excess syndrome was treated by the reducing method, heat syndrome was treated by the cooling method, yin was treated in the yang syndrome, etc. For example, kidney strengthening type qigong is for yin deficiency patients and qt generating type gigong is for yang deficiency patients. e morning by a Model report of LVET PEP/ 4. Criteria; Left ventricular systolic function was measured in t ie RM-6000 Poligram. 8 indices were recorded, but here we only give and PEP, LVET. d. Results; The effects of the gigong treatment on PEP/LVET; sone nen nf Discussion; PEP/LVET is a reliable criterion in evaluation of the function of the left ventricle. The shortened LVET and prolonged PEP can be seen when cardiac function is affected. So, the ratio of PEP/LVET may sensitively indicate the changes of the cardiac function. The results showed that after 3 months gigong training, PEP / er in the aged group, in the cardivascular disease group and even in some abnormal cases vere lower than that in the control or before qigong training. It suggested that the left ventricular systolic function was improved. The normal range of PEP/LVET is 0. 295--0. 345. PEP/LVET dbove 0. 38 is a symble of cardiac disease. This index in our lab was 0. 39. In this study, the mean PEP/LVET in all groups were higher than the normal. After the gigong treatment, the pean lowered to 0. 35. - 128 - | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 In yin deficiency group and the group of qi and yon deficiency it was 0. 345. PEP/LVET in the group of deficiency complicated by excess syndrome lowered sharply from 0. 419 to 0. 37. Changes of PEP/LVET before and after the gigong exercise (X-+SD) 0074 # 009# # 009H # 006 # 009 # OLHA 006# Aged Abnormal cardiac function Cardivascular diseases Yin deficiency Qi and yin deficiency Deficiency complicated by excess Total Aged control (a) Before the gigong treatment, PEP /LVET was higher than that of the control, indicating the pathological state of the groups (* P<0.05, x » P<0. 01) (b) After the gigong treatment, the difference of PEP /LVET between the pathological groups and control group was not significant. (A P>0.05), showing the improvement of the cardiac function. (c) The comparison between the condition before and after the gzgong treatment showed that PEP/LVET was significantly modified (# P<0.05 ## P<0. 01). All of these results indicate that the gigong treatment based on differentiation of syndromes is helpful to the cardiac function. The yi deficiency group got the best result and the group of deficiency complicated by excess got the second best effect. * 129 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
| Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 A CLINICAL STUDY OF THE TAOIST METHOD FOR KEEPING GOOD HEALTH AND LONGEVITY ON THE EVOKED CEREBRAL POTENTIALS IN PATIENTS WITH’ SENIILE CEREBRAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS (AN ANALYSIS OF 40 CASES) Cheng Kezhong, Zhu Ruifen, Zhu Jiayan, Ma Yume Tang Zhanfu, Jing Xinwen, Peng Xiaoju and Cheng Xiushan (Affiliated Hospital, Shandong Medical University, Shandong province, China) Yue Wenhao (Shandong Medical University, Shandong province, China) The method for keeping good health and longevity is one of |the gigong advantages through the clinical practice over 2000 years. But experimental studies are lacking. The evoked cerebral potential is one of the new objective parameters in the study of the cerebral function. Thirty male patients (60-70 years old) of a qigong exercise group, who were diagnosed as having cerebral arteriosclerosis by specialists and 10 contrpls (60-72 years old) were involved in this study. The somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) and visual evoked potentials (VEP) were detected. The results revealed that before doing|the qigong exercise the incubation periods of the N; wave of SEP and N,, P., and N, waves of VEP were longer than those of the controls (P<i0.05 and P< 0. 01 respectively) . pv indicated that the cortical pathways of SEP and VEP were damaged by cerebral arteriosclerosis. In the gigong exercise group, after practising for 6 months, the incubation periods of the P; wave of SEP and Ni, P, and N; waves of VEP markedly shortened than those before practice. The differences were statistically significant (P<0. 01). However, the amplitudes showed no marked difference (P>>0.05) . The authors had randomily selected 15 patients from the 30 patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis of the qigong exer¢ise group. Before and_ immediately after practice their SEP and VEP were detected. The amplitudes had physiological differences but the differences were not significant (P>>0. 05). After enfering the calm state, the incubation periods of all the waves of SEP and VEP had changes. |The incubation periods of N,, P, and N, waves showed marked difference before and after practice (P<(0. 001). This indicated that the practice could improve the degree of myelinization and functional state of the visual pathway. In the 30 patients the incubation periods of all the waves of the SEP, except N; wave of the SEP which was longer than normal, showed no significant difference ° 130° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 from those of the controls. This suggested that the changes of SEP pathway were less marked than those of VEP pathway. During practice the influences on VEP by the calm state and the posturing state were immediately detected, revealing that the incubation periods of N, , P, and N, waves of VEP shortened and the differences were significant (P<(0. 01). This indicated that the calm state could immediately improve the state of cortical VEP pathway. As for SEP, the incubation periods of P, , Ni , P, and N; waves showed a move-up, delay and no change. Especially the N; waves moved up significantly. This indicated that the calm state and the posturing state could promote the excitability of various cortical areas of the SEP pathway, revealing the shortening of the, incubation periods or lower their excitability, revealing the delay or no change of the incubation period. The experimental study indicates that the Taoist method for keeping good health and longevity can improve the cerebral visual pathway. AN EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH OF PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MYOPIA BY “VISION IMPROVEMENT Q/GONG EXERCISE” Lu Shicai, Liu Zhenwu and Li Zhensheng (Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Henan province, China) Bi Lianhua, Chan Jiafu, Cui Ruanlin and Fu Qinglan (Anti-Epidemic Centers of Henan Province, Xin Xiang City, Gi Yuan County, Pingdingshan City, Henan province, China) Myopia is a disorder of higher incidence in teen-agers. Although various treatments have been adopted by the scholars at home and abroad with some effect, yet up to now the spreading tendency of the problem has not been controlled. We have designed the “vision improvement qigong exercise” according to the theories of traditional Chinese and modern medicine. At first it pays great attention to improve the whole-body quality, strengthen the function of the heart, liver, kidney and regulate the meridian system. At the same time it takes notice of eyes' pathological changes, by relieving the spasm of ciliary muscles and improving blood circulation. The exercise is divided into 9 movements and takes 10-12 minutes for the whole process. The 9 movements include; 1. Standing quietly and relaxing for 1 minute; 2. Stretching the body to regulate the meridian system; 3. Swinging arms and © 131. Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 turning eyes for 6 times; 4. Massaging the eyes with the thenar for 3 times; 5. Massaging 6 points with the middle finger; 6. Gazing into the distance from further to nearer, and vice versa for 6 times; 7. Massaging the head and the face for 3 times; 8. Pushing out and gazing into the palms for 6 times; 9. Ending the exercise. Since 1982 we have conducted tests for preventing and treating myopia in 1712 These students were secondary school students in Zhengzhou, Jiyuan and Pingdingshan. divided into two groups randomly; the treatment group and the control group doing “setting-up exercises of eyes” . Under the same condition, the tests of vision 4nd diopter were given before and after the treatment, and evaluation of effectiveness was made after treatment. The total effective rate for Group I was 67.67%. The improvement rate was 73. 21% for functional myopia—a main type in teen-ager myopia. The highest effective was 94.44% and the incidence of myopia dropped to 11.94%. Through three m inths' treatment for 65 myopias at Pingdingshan high school, No.1, the diopter declined to 0] 4678D averagely. All these experimental results proved the curative efffect of the treatment group superior to that of the control group. Results from many districts demonstrate that the exercise is jeffective not only to functional myopia and mild myopia but also to true and serious myopia. On the other hand, it is helpful to normal eyes. THE EFFECT OF Q/GONG EXERCISE (QUIESCENT AND DYNAMIC FORMS) ON THREE INDEXES OF PATIENTS WITH ABNORMAL CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION Zhang Rulin, Wang Hexuan and Yan Yulan (Xinxiang Medical Coliege, Henan province, China) In order to search for the effect of gigong exercise (quiescent dynamic forms) on patients with cardiovacular diseases, thirty-three patients were observed before and after the qigong exercise. Material and Method; 1. Material The subjects were thirty-three middle-aged and old persons with ardiovascular diseases. Among them, twenty-five were males and the rest were females. Te persons’ age was from fifty to sixty and twenty people's from sixty to seventy. Three person: ? above seventy. All of * 132° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080004-1 them had abnormal blood pressure, electrocardiogram and vectorcardiogram. 2. Method ; Before doing the qigong exercise, patients were checked up and their blood pressure, rheoencephalogram and vectorcardiogram were recorded for further study. Then they did exercises from 8-9 o'clock in the morning every day, ten to fifteen minutes for quiescent exercise and then 15 minutes for Taijigong and Taijt sword-playing. Their exercise was done again in the afternoon. Three months later, their blood pressure, rheoencephalogram and vectorcardiogram were examined again. After statistical analysis, we found great changes took place before and after the exercise. 3. Instrument Instrument of rheoencephalgram; JX74-4 Instrument of electrocardiovascular; XQ-1A Instrument of vectorcardiogram, MVC-40A Result; 1. The effect on blood pressure Item Systolic pressure Diastolic pressure] 33 From the above, we can see that after three months of the gigong exercise, the blood pressure is lowered evidently. There is great difference between the two periods. 2. The effect on wave shape of rheoencephalogram Steep and Tripeak Inclined Turning Flating straight wave wave wave . wave wave Before the 42 exercies After the exercise From the above, we can see that after doing the exercise for three months, the inclined wave and turning wave in seven cases turned into the steep straight wave and tripeak. wave. «133° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 3. The effect on vectorcardiogram The effect on the moving time of QRS cycle The author also made the experiment of the effect on the theoenvephalogram's dicrotic wave, the effect on the tising time, the effect on the wave amplitude, the effect on the speed of flow and the volume of flow and the effect on the difference of the wave amplitude between the two sides. The P value of them was less than 0. 05. The experiment of the effect on the amplitude of vibration of ORS cycle, the effect on the long and wide specific value of T cycle, the effect on ORS—T cyale specific value with instrument of vectorcardiogram were also done. There was great differpnee between the two periods. Discussion ; | We compared thirty patients! blood pressure, rheoencephalgram, véctorcardiogram before and after the exercise. The result handled by statistics showed great difference between the two periods. For example, blood pressure lowered, the wave shape of rheoencephalogram dicrotic pulse became better. The amplitude increased and the rising time| shortened, the speed of flow volume increased. The difference in percentage of the two sides of amplitude became less and the running time of vectorcardiogram reduced. The amplitude of vectorcardiogram of all sides increased and the specific value between QRS cycle and T cycle reduced. It shows that the qigong exercise has obvious curative effect on cardiovascular diseases, But its mechanism is still unknown. However, according to the theory, of gigong the author assumes; | 1. The gigong exercise can dredge the meridian system, regulate the function of gi and blood, keep balance of ying-yang. | 2. The integrated relationship between nature and the human being} Traditional Chinese medicine holds that the human body is a miniature universe, but it does) not exist alone, and is closely connected with nature. The activities of human beings in the open air may promote the exchange of information between them and nature, stablize the control system of life and restore health. 3. The qigong exercise can adjust the balance of the central nervous system, improve the function of the blood vessels in regulation of it. As a result disorders of blood supply can be * 134+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 removed, the intensity of the blood vessel is reduced, when the elasticity of the blood vessels is strengthened the volume of blood flow is increased, which is a cure to cardiovascular diseases. But the mechanism needs a further study. AN ANALYSIS OF 51 CASES WITH CHD TREATED BY Q/GONG Sun Jiwang, Yuan Rui and Yang Cuifeng (Gansu, China) Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a common and frequently encountered disease. The authors have attempted to treat it by the qigong exercise for two years. The result is reported as follows. Among the 51 patients 40 were males, 11, females; 49 were the kind of anginal and 2, prolonged myocardial infarction. Diagnosis was convinced by ‘symptoms and electrocardiography. Their age were from 51 to 75 and the average treating course was 8 yeats. After 20 to 60 days! practising of the exercise collectively or individually under the guidance of qigong teachers, all the 51 patients could make qi circulate through the Du _ Meridian. The exercise was done as follows: Paying attention to the heart area while expirating; Leading gi travel towards Dantian (below umbilicus) ; Keeping qi in Dantian; Never using any other method to aid or support when qz begins to circulate naturally; Generating by preservation of q. At the end of the third step, i.e. , when it travels through Mingmen (Du 4) to Xinshu (B 15), qi produced impulse to thé heart. Thus, foci started to react, Reoccurrence of the disease became frequent, but the condition is less severe than before, e.g. angina pectoris did not severely attack but a slight pain. The patients should then be encouraged to continue practising the exercise. When gq: circulated, patients felt lealthy than ever and their intellectual and remembering faculties restored. At this time, they must.confined to the exercise. The effective rate in treating anginal symptoms is 100%. Marked effective is 29 of 51, improvement 22, and that of electrocardiography is 94.12% or 27 and 21 cases, failure in 3 Cases. « 135 » Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 CHD is caused by weak heart yang , stagnancy of qi and blood stasis, which result in pain. | According to traditional Chinese medicine, the fundamental principle of the exercise is to invigorate the functions of the heart, adjust qz and blood, increase blood circulation, cleanse stagnation and relieve pain. The purpose is “to eliminate the root calise while treating the disease. ” | The authors believe that patients shouldn't take any drugs includirig nitroglycerin before and after the gigong exercise. This is convincingly an effective method to treat CHD. | | A STUDY ON Q/ AND SUPERPOWER Hsi-ming Wu (Study and Experiment in Taiwan, China) 1. Preface | In January 1986, the author found a hot energy generated in| the whole body and acquired some special talented skills. Since then the author healed many incurable patients who had been abandoned by many doctors of Western and Chinese medicine, In September of the same year, the author started studying gi and superpower and offering a course on “SM or Chinese Superpower Meditation” . After two years! study and experiment, the author found that either inner or emitted gi not only could be used to cure diseases for oneself or others, but also improve one's physical constitution and produce very peculiar! supernatural ability. This paper will give you an insight of my study and experiment for the past two years. 2. Superpower | The scientific theory of “Superpower” is quite reasonably established , and its practice is available and feasible. The developed countries, such as the USA and USSR, have invested much human resource, materials and finance for the purpose of development and study. “Both of them have acquired remarkable achievements. Although “Superpower” has not yet been accepted by the population, it will become one of the main trends of knowledge in the coming 2ist century. Up to this moment, it has not been widely accepted by the public owing to various reasons. | 3. @+ and Superpower | Superpower is not always generated by qigong training, but it can be acquired through | | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 qigong training for some time. So, there is a close relationship between q+ and Superpower. Qi is a kind of biological energy and the qigong exercise is very popular among the Chinese people. 4. Inner gi and the emitted gz After practicing qigong , one may cultivate his inner qi. The inner q2 cures the trainees! own illnesses and the emitted gi can help to heal others’ diseases. Qi emission is very difficult to be trained, but “SM or Chinese Superpower Meditation” can help the trainees not only to acquire the ability of emitting their gz to cure others’ diseases, but also to produce more peculiar abilities. They can emitted gi to a body of people. (The author has made an experiment of giving his emitted gi to a thousand peoplle at the same time). 5. Qi generation without mind control In more upgrade phase, gi energy can generate an uninterrupted hot energy felt by anyone around. The author has such capacity. 6. Side-effects of the gigong exercise and superpower in the qigong exercise Side-effects may result from the qigong exercise. However, the practice and study of “qi -energy” is very helpful to human beings. So it should not stop training just because of a little trouble. It should be settled by wisdom. 7. Examples of anti-aging effect of the superpower meditation There are many actual cases of anti-aging effect of the Chinese Superpower Meditation. It really can be proved that training of qigong has effect. 8. The Self-healing effect of the superpower meditation & healing by the emitted qi of the instructors About one thousand pupils have been successfully trained by the Chinese Superpower Meditation, 90 percent of the trainess who had taken the whole course have acquired the talent of curing his own diseases within two years. In this section the author would testify the actual curing cases, i.e. gastro-enteritis, liver ailment, renal disease, fever and cold, insomnia, skin disease, brain and neurologic disorders, baby crying in the midnight, cancers, ear, nose and throat syndromes, urogenital disorders, blood pressure disorders, cardiovascular disorders, rectification of the deviation of training, strengthening of physical constitution and etc. of 17 categories. 9. The result of superpower acquired from the Chinese superpower meditation training The training has made some pupils acquire peculiar talent such as emitting their gi ’ diagnosis with fingertips, remote transmition of qi, spiritual response, preperception, qt emission to a group of people, operation of will-power and etc. © 137° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 10. Conclusion According to our study and experiment in the past two years, iwe have come to the conclusions as follows; 1. We can assure that the training of gigeng has a positive, miraculous and undeniable effect in strengthening physical constitution and curing of diseases. 2. We should pay attention to whether any deviation in gigong training may happen. So, we should attend the class and learn from’ the qualified | itutors and avoid self- teaching through books. . 3. The training of gigong should be based upon scientific and bnictiv basis without mingling with the colors of superstition. | 4. In the process of training, pupils should not expect good result! within a short period. Otherwise, it will offense the rule of training. 5. It can be assured that the training of qigong can produce snstpowe but it should be stated on the scientific and objective basis. | 6. The world-wide development of training of gigong will benefit the health of human beings. | 7. The science of gigong and Superpower will be the main trend of the 21st century and may become a new knowledge and power of human beings. SEX EXISTS TOGETHER WITH LIF E+ A STUDY OF Q/GONG IN TREATMENT OF IMPOTENCE AND ITS WONDERFVL EFFICACY | Huang Chengmo (Director, Unique Cultural Features Service of Inner Strength Skill, Taiwan, China) 1. Correction of sexual concept Sexual desire is a part of human nature. It is pure and natural and connected with the sacred mission of continuing the family line by producing a male heir. | | Just as one theologist says, God is almighty. If tabooing sex, God would not have cr cated the wonderful sexual organs for males and females and all owned them to have sexual intercourse. Therefore, his maxim is “for all things created by God without feeling ashamed, people should not be afraid of talking about it. ” Based on this principle, I would like to discuss this important but relaxed topic with serious attitude. + 138 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 2. Three big sexual troubles of human beings _(1) It's unable to break through sexual concept; (2) Sexual efficacy is not strong; (3) Venereal diseases ate rampant. The sexual concept has been improved because of the strengthening of the sex education. The conventional sexual diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis, etc. have been controlled because of the invention of antibiotics and development of medical sciense and technology. But weak sexual function still cannot be solved by Chinese and Western medicine. 3, Normal sexual life can increase happiness and prolong life. As the common saying puts, “When the yin and the yang are in harmony, the fertilizing rain descends, and it's a sign of long life when the old is still romantic.” According to my study, the normal sexual life has the following advantages; 1) Sexual love can promote the human body's hormone balance to prevent aging. 2) Desirable sexual life is a symbol of good health. 3) Sexual life is a good remedy to prevent and treat heart ailment because it can release mental depression and pressure. 4) Good sexual life can increase the sentiment and harmony of a marriage life. 5) Making love is a kind of good exercise. 6) Making love can relieve life boredom and prevent suicide. 7) Sexual love can make life optimistic, active and struggling with success — the intelligent and brave Solomon King said, happiness is the good mental medicine, but strong liquor can devitalize bone; he only loved beauties but not strong liquor. 8) Sexual love can increase happiness and longevity which has been proved in medical sciense that a married person can have a long life, but an unmarried person dies eatly. Therefore, one poet said, “We nust love, or die. ” 4. the cause of impotence and the treating efficacy of qigong There are complicated reasons for male's sexual weakness like impotence and immature ejection. They include mental and physiological disturbances, related to cultural characteristics and family background, especially the sexual companion's indifference and uncooperative impact. Up to now, there has been no effective therapy in Chinese and Western medicine. The Western medicine places emphasis on mental haunting and on psychoanalysis, but it's helpless. The Chinese medicine holds they are caused by deficiency in the kidney and advises to noursh the heart and soothe the nerves thus tonics are given, but it is only little helpful for those with weak physical make-up. Only the qigong therapy together with the mental and physiological treatment has 100% efficacy. It has experienced more than 30 years since 1947 ° 139 + Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 when I started to treat impotence with the gigong therapy in Taiwan. Now I can guarantce to refund if it's ineffective. The approaches are as follows; (1) Using ai flow in the qigong therapy and the contracted movement of sexual gland nerve to strengthen the control of the spincter muscle in the private part, and to promote endocrine sexual gland nerves by stimulation of the male's ketones, and increase confidence. 2) Massage is applied to promote metabolism, strengthen blood circulation, reinforce sexual ability, and also increase the nervous function of the brain and kidney to successfully eliminate headache, blurred vision, lowback pain, impotence and immature ejection. 5. conclusion The youth's sperm barrier is insecure and sensitive to eject easily. The middle-aged and old men cannot raise up firmly with too little power to do thing as they | wish. Only receiving my simple training of qigong exercise, they can get remarkable effet, Please believe me; “the silkworm will not exhaust its silk until it dies, and the candle's tear will not dry until it has been burned into ashes. Take a good care of your youth, and then yout sexual ability can be maintained until death. It's absolutely correct that sex exists together with life. ” i i THE PRESENT CONDITION OF Q/GONG IN JAPAN Mashanori Yamamoto (Japan Qigong Academy) | In the long history of exchange with China the Japanese have learned a lot from the Chinese people, including Buddhism, architecture, painting, calligraphy, acupuncture and culinary art. Recently modern science has been introduced to Chind from Japan. It is necessary for the prosperity and welfare of both sides in any times. Now, we are learning qigong science from the Chinese people. Countries in Asia used to have a better understanding of qt 5 but in Japan qi has only been a part of Wu-sku or martial arts and Buddhism, and there is no} existence of medical gigong . Chinese gigong has its unique exercise patterns and it may prothote health and exert self-cure effect after practice, which has epoch-making significance. It is known to all that everyone concerns health in Japan and therg is an enthusiasm of health-preservation among the masses. Patients used to consult doctors of Western medicine, but a lot of difficult cases cannot be cured. People having doubts of Western medicine begin + 140+ | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 to seek help from alternative medicine. Since people have more spare time and income it is certain that they try every way to improve their health. For example, the young prefer to take Western physical exercise therapy--a dynamic pattern and the quiescent pattern including breathing exercise, meditation and Zen. Since 1970 some people began to practise qigong exercise, but the popularity of qigong only started from 1985 when the mass media, such as TV, newspapers and journals actively worked on it. Because there had never such a word as qugong in Japan, it is necessary to wait for sometime to allow people to have an understanding of gigong . In the past three years there has been constant increase of people learning gigong exercises. When we compare the number of people learning qigong this year with that of the previous year we will find an enormous increase in number. In the days to come, we should clarify the mechanism of qigong to the masses, telling them why qigong exercise can prolong life and cure diseases. For the purpose of winning popularity of qigong among people, I believe that when it is expounded on scientific basis and free from mistery gigong must be universally popular among the people, and this will be a world trend. It is significant to convene the First World Conference for Academic Exchange of Medical Qigong . A few months ago an international symposium of qigong science was held in Shanghai. There will be an international symposium of “ Qi and Human Society” to be held in Tokyo this November to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the sign of the Japanese-Chinese Peace and Friendship Treaty, for which a Chinese delegation of 15 members will be sent. “ qi and psychosomatic medicine”, “ gi and physical culture and Wide-ranging topics, such as martial arts” » “effects and application of medical gigong ”, “scientific measurement of qi ” and “ gi and religion, philosophy and art” will be discussed on the meeting. The Japanese participants are scholars who are of great attainments in qigong and other sciences, and work in the forefront of these fields. In recent years qigong has begun to be popular alongside the increased concern about qo in the world. People used to understand gigong by personal experience, but now an epoch of scientific understanding of qigong has begun. Qigong science emerged in China has spread to the world and taken roots internationally. It is expected that qigong as a new branch of science in. the 21st century will make great contributions to the human health and social development. * 141+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
i Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 THE ACTUAL ANALYSIS OF Q/ BY KINSHINDAN-HO (THE MUSCULAR-DIAGNOSING THERAPY METHOD) AND THE MANIPULATIVE TREATMENT OF IT | . i Kono, Tadao, Hoshino, Minoru, Yamabe, Yoshihiko (Association of Musculat-Diagnosing Therapy of JAPAN) If we give the definition of the medical treatment of qigong ag the therapy by the practical use of gi , I can say with much confidence that the Jing Luo (theridians) therapy by accupunture is also the same therapy. The KinShindan-Ho, a kind of acupuncture I have originated may be regarded as the new qigong systematized as a method of medical treatment. Until now, we have various applications of magnetism used in medical instruments or other healing products and methods because of its healthy usefulness or some kind of medical effects. But science has not proposed any complete explanation as to why and how the magnetism appears or affects the case of treatment. This is the very similar circumstance about the essential recognition of gi , so called whether “inner qi” or “emitted qi”, that is lacking the physical reality with scientific substantiation. | As it is beliveed that in proportion as the magnetic force increases the efficacy will rise, there is a remarkable tendency to use stronger magnetic tablets to put ont the affected part for treatment. On the other hand, we know the tendency that the capacity of inner gi is one of the most important conditions of a gigong doctor. It is interest but questionable for me as to whether this tendency has missed the mark. | At any rate, it is no use to say that to build the relationship filled with confidence between doctors and patients and to make a self-effort of patients to realize the earlier cure are the most important and indispensable conditions, for gi makes the full bse of the real ability when the gi of a doctor forms in response to that of patients, that is hot one way effective from the doctor’s side on the wide concept of treatment with qi . On our point of view, the efficacy is not in proportion to the magrtetic force (numerical value of gauss), though there is no question that the magnetism of tablet we use for stimulation or relaxation operates physically to living objects. I could get the same efficacy I expected when I used a tablet of both 800 gauss and 160 gauss. . | From this result, we can guess it is neccessary for patients to take magnetism as an information, enough to promote the circulation of inner gi , not magnetism itself. If magnetism itself makes an important contribution to efficacy to meridians, there leaves * 142° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 no room for the manipulative treatment of KinShindan-Ho, on which we use no apparatus. We may discuss if our manipulative treatment should be comprised in the category of the emitted gz treatment. But it is sure that hands and fingers can radiate something in common between magnetism and qi. Until today, we have come to proof that hands and fingers show the ‘nature’ which correspond to magnetic poles, though it is needless to say that hands and fingers are not magnets in that they cannot attract iron or any other metals. I give it the name as “Finger Magnet”, for it does the part of our magnetic apparatus for diagnosis. We introduce, as follows, the law and the way (proceeding order) and use of the manipulative teatment of the KinShindan-Ho. And we pick up certain relations with a treatment of the emitted gz to consider or dispute. 1. A subject lies in a face up position to take an abdominal diagnosis. A manipulator pushes in at the points of abdominal diagnosis by the tip of the mid- finger and to guess extraordinariness of meridians, asking a subject if he feels pain or not. 2. A manipulator examines if extraordinary tensions appear by an operation. of touching diagnosis on diagnostic muscles which are counterpart to each meridian. 3. A manipulator givés a conclusion of abnormality of a meridian by the symptoms of both pain of a point of abdominal diagnosis and tensions of diagnostic muscles of the common relative meridian. 4. The abnormal meridians are classified into four groups; yin meridians of hand, yin meridians of foot, yang meridians of hand and yang meridians of foot. A-‘manipulator selects only one meridian from each group for the meridian to treat, so we appoint the four meridians to treat. 5. A manipulator decides the side to treat, either right or left and selects only one point from the probable points. 6. A manipulator stimulates the healing point in the case of weakness or relaxes, the healing point in the case of excessiveness on each meridian. Now we have to show the precondition when we assign the N or S pole role to each hand and fingers. Right hand of man; S (minus) -pole to palm, S-pole to thumb, N (plus) -pole to forefinger and S-pole to middle finger. Left hand of man; N-pole to palm, N-pole to thumb, S-pole to forefinger and N-pole to middle finger. « 143° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
i | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 Woman's are exchanged from the right to left of those of man. | We can therefore do the mainipulative therapy by using this fdrce. A manipulator examines if the extraordinary tensions of diagnostic muscles will disappear, while he puts his fingers gently and lightly on the point of abdomen by the other hand, this manipulation is the way to decide the weakness or excersiveness. | For example, a male manipulator makes muscular diagnosis on the lett hand if there is a reaction, when he touches the point of the abdomen by the forefinger of his right hand (N- pole role). If there is a reaction, it shows weakness of the meridian. Next, we give the name N (plus) -S (minus) ring that is a finger rig made of the tip of the thumb and the tip of forefinger or middle finger , Man's N-ring is made of the right thumb and the forefinger and of tHe left thumb and the middle finger. Man's S-ring is made of the right thumb and the middle finger and of the left thumb and the forefinger. Woman's are exchanged from the right to left of those of man. Using these law, when manipulators and patients make a mutual aid, | they can know the weakness or excessiveness clearly, accurately, and more rapidly than ordinary cases. This is to say; | 1. For example, a male manipulator, left N-ring, pushing on, into a point of the abdomen by the tip of the middle finger of the right hand, if| there is a vanishing reaction of pain, this is a sign of weakness. ‘2. Left N-ring of a patient, straightening the elbow. joint and turning the forearm inward, while a menipulator takes diagnosis on the points of the abdomen or diagnose muscles, if they get a vanishing reaction, it shows the weakness of the left side of yin meridian of foot. | . Left S-ring of a patient, the rest of the same proceeding condition, it shows the excessiveness of the left side of yin meridian of foot. The case of the right N-ring of a patient is to show weakness of the right. | 3. Left N-ring of a patient, straightening the elbow joint and turning the forearm outward, while a manipulator takes disagnosis on points of the abdomen or diagnoses muscles, if they get a vanishing reaction, it shows the weakness of the left side of the yang meridian of foot. The followings are the same as above. 4, Left N-ring of a patient, right angle bending the elbow joint and turning the forearm inwatd, while the manipulator makes a diagnosis as above; if they get a vanishing reaction, it shows the weakness of the left side of the yin meridian of hand. The followings are the same as above. | 2144 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 5. Left N-ring of a patient, right angle bending the elbow joint and turning the forearm — outward, while the manipulator makes a diagnosis as above; if they get a vanishing reaction, it shows the weakness of the left side of the yang meridian of hand. The followings are the same as above. Now we believe you understand the whole system of the manipulative treatment, especially about the cooperative way between patients and manipulators on- the diagnosing process. By the way, on these process of finger magnet, from beginning to the decision of the side to treat, the manipulator uses a gentle touching method on the points. But on the points to treat, the manipulator may use a hard touching method for the stimulation or relaxation. In this case, each pole role turns to opposite nature. That is to say, when male manipulators use a hard touching method, the finger magnets play the role of woman's ones of gentle touching method. Female manipulator's finger magnets have the contrast to man!s. Now I will show the alternative treatment of our own method. When a male manipulator wants to make the stimulation to the point to treat, you may touch or set your left palm (2 inches down the Pericardium Meridian of Laogong (P 8), near the root of the middle finger) afloat facing to skin until 3 cm above it. If you set your palm more than 3 cm, you may relax to the point. In this method, there is no need to use psycho-attention. The right palm makes the opposite phenomena to the above. A female manipulator's palms play the opposite role. I don't believe that the law of the KinShindan-Ho has universal validity through the generality of the emitted q2 treatment, for it seems there are some considerable differences between them. For the cases of treatment with the emitted gz, it is important to harmonize the radiation to breathing and with the psycho-attention. Otherwise, as the emitted gz treatment does not have a system to decide weakness or excessiveness of meridians in its own scale, neither have a general method to stimulate or relax on. the points. Though we easily find something in common between the manipulative treatment of the KinShindan-Ho and the radiation treatment of the emitted gi, for example, by which we get remarkable efficacy without any apparatus. As I am not a doctor of gigong but only an acupuncturist, I have not been trained to radiate gi. But when I explain our manipulation, I dare say qi plays a great part in our conception of treatment; i.e. the qi of the hands of a manipulator's is counterpart of that of the patient’s body surface. We want profitable suggestions from the Chinese gigong doctors. © 145 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 A TREATMNET METHOD TOWARDS FUNCTIONAL DISEASES OF THE KNEEJOINT Shigeo Nakagawa (Kansai Qigong Society, Japan) In Japan, from former times, headache, lumbago, and having a stiff shoulder have been the most common and daily pains. But with the progress of means of transportation and popularization of private used motorcars becoming too convenient, more and more persons are | worried about a disease of knee joint. Recovering of this is not easy. Especially in case of high aged persons, they sometimes arrive to loss of walking function. The averege life span of Japanese is now top of the world. But disease with pain in the aged will increase in near future. For such trouble like that, we need safe and easy home treatment, i.e to treat by the patients themselves or with their families and friends. I studied Sotaido (“Body treatment method” designed by Dr. Hashimoto) 10 years ago, and 4 years after, in 1983, meeting with gigong . After that, I studied Sotaido and qigong for five years, and found various effective treatment methods. | Toward the kneejoint problem, it contains a method of moving-diagnosis (named “circle- diagnosis method” and etc. ), press-diagnosis for finding out the diseased muscle, and treatment techniques. Now I'll introduce these method as follows. 1. The function of the knee is not only to bend and straighten, but to turn, draw circles or twist like a screw. My “circle-diagnosis” is developed based on it. The patient lies and his legs t are moved to draw circles. He is asked when he is most uncomfortable. | 2. For knowing which muscle in the knee is diseased, the patient is asked to bend or extend his knee, and to find the most uncomfortable position, and the unusual point press tense muscle. 3. In many case, any muscle connecting the knee has bad influence on the kneejoint. When I find the inner conection another treatment is applied. It is a way to find unusual tension of the leg, and relax, regulate that unbalance point. 3 4. In treatment, the doctor touches the diseased point with one hand and emit his gi to let the patient move his knee from most uncomfortable posture to comfortable posture, after that, proper pressure is given by the other hand. The patient is advised to relax his body when he « 146+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 breathes out. Repeat this 1 or 2 times. AN IDEA OF INNER DIAGNOSTIC METHOD Mashakashu Kazhuda (Japanese Oriental Medicine) O-ring test has been developed by Dr. Keishou Omura. The strength of the O-ring formed by the thumb and index finger of the right hand of the subject is tested to decied if the drug held in the left hand is good or not for the subject's illness. From tests I have found that when the subject thinks of a drug in Yitang (Extra 1), the same purpose may be reached. Method, For example when the abdominal diagnosis tells there is a pain and distension in the chest region, the patient is instructed to touch his Qimen (Liv 14) with his left index finger and the O-ring test is conducted on the right hand. Radix Bupleurt is good for pain and distension in the chest region. But for determination of the best prescription in which Radix Bupleurit is included, different ones are applied to Yintang (Extra 1) . When the best one touches Yintang (Extra 1), the O-ring formed by the patient cannot be separated. By using this method, even no drugs are applied to, one can decide the best prescription. It is thought that in the O-ring test the subject is influenced by electric field and magnetic field. Why does mental application of drugs produce the same effect? If the qz of the performer can affect the patient? No matter what reason it is, the above observation is presented to you for consideration. AN OBSERVATION ON SKIN THERMOGRAPHY DURING Q/GONG NEEDLING Lin Maomei (Sino-Japanese Institute of Qigong , Nagoya, Japan) ‘No matter whether we are performing gigong necding, emitted gz therapy or psychotherapy with arousing of qi (vital energy), the exchange of q2 between the performer and the patient, the solicitude and encouragement given by the performer to the patient and the respect and confidence shown by the patient to the performer can in various degrees lead to positive therapeutic effect physically and mentally. When I carry out the therapy of qigong ° 147° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 needling, I give full consideration to the entirety of the human body with respect to the mental and physical state, just as to the current principle of “wholistic therapy”, which has been highly valued internationally. | For years, I have been in charge of a Sino-Japanese therapeutic clinic engaging mainly in acupuncture treatment and a Sino-Japanese Institute of qigong engaging mainly in gigong treatment in Japan. Since 1981, I have innovated a method of treatnhent which integrates acupuncture and gigong and carried out the clinical observation in this respect. My paper “The Integrated Application of Qigong and Acupuncture” was published in | 1983 in a Japanese medical journal (Journal of All Japan Acupuncture Society) and met with attention and enthusiasm. As I have practiced gigong , especially the qigong mimicing a wild goose and shadow boxing for ten years, my patient will have a sense of comfort whenever my hand keeps close to the diseased part of his body. In 1986, I began to treat 66 patients with the method of gigong needling (during treatment the needle was held in the hand of the performer but not inserted into the body of the patient and sometimes two fingers were used instead of a . needle to release qi externally) . 60 of the 66 patients experienced the receiving of qi. Among them, 12 experienced a heat sensation, 10 a mobile sensation, | 8 an electric current sensation, 6 a heavily pressed sensation, 4 alleviation of pain and distress and 20 other sensations such as needle pain or pulsation of blood vessels. | In order to obtain some scientific data, thermography was performed simultaneously during the treatment. The results are shown in the figures. During the gigong needling (the needle was held but not inserted) and finger needling (the middle finger Iwas used instead of a needle and directed at a distance towards the acupuncture points Laogong (P 8), Hegu CLI 4) etc. ). The skin temperature of the treated part was elevated to varying degrees. In general, the skin temperature rose one to two degrees. It is thus shown that qigong needling or finger needling has definitely produced effect. | It is not necessary to demand the patients to have experience of practicing qigong in order to be treated with the gigong needling. However, if the patient has this kind of experience and has confidence in the performer, the therapeutic effect would be better. A more important fact is that through my experience with the qigong needling and finger needling, I have perceived that the.space between the performer and the patient was full of an invisible but effect producing substance. The exchange of qi and idea is, in fact, a kind of medical art carried out by the performer and the patient as well. | However, there are still some problems such as the therapeutic indications of the qigong needling and finger needling, the physical and mental state of the patient, the patient's * 148+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080004-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 experience of practicing gigong , the effect. of psychiac suggestion etc. awaiting for further observation and investigation. NEW Q/GONG —AN ESSENTIAL TOOL IN HEALING AND PREVENTION OF CANCER Chung Siu Wong (Dawn Valley Qigong Health Center, U.S. A) For the past 18 years, new qigong has been taught publicly and has proven its effectiveness in the prevention and treament of common chronic ailments, such as heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and inflammatory diseases. The effectiveness of this new qigong not only regards the healing of many chronic diseases, but also it is beneficial to the immune function of cancer patients in the early, middle, and last stages. This unexpected healing result has drawn the attention in many countries. Now, there are many cancer patients coming from different countries to receive qigong treatment. New gigong's major theoretical basis is traditional Chinese and Western medicine and physiology, especially the Chinese meridian doctrine by strengthening the immune function. 1. The internal reason for cancer is because the body is unable to adjust the seven emotions, the five zang and six fu organs; and the external reason for cancer is because of the changing of weather and improper diet. But the external reason is decided by the internal reason. The body becomes so weak that it loses the circulation of qi or life force and blood throughout the body. Obstructions of gi and blood can't be removed, and thus there is no way to balance yim and yang . Qigong can prevent and cure cancer. This is because the practice of gigong directly strengthens the body's gi and thereby strengthens the immune function. Qigong practice also regulates the metabolic function, the body's adaptation to the environmental influences, ‘thereby maximizing the body's physiological functioning. Since qigong facilitates good circulation of gi and blood throughout the body, obstructions of qz and blood can be removed, and thereby increasing the power to resist cancer. . 2. Bodily weakness or injury, environmental pollution or the weakness of the liver and kidney will gradually become cancerous. Practice of gigong is the best way to strengthen the body and prevent cancer. 3. The effectiveness for those who have practiced gigong for 6 to 9 months; 1) Body strengthened, appetite increased and sleep improved, more energy and better « 149 - Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 spirit, colds prevented and cured, chance of cancer decreased. | 2) Regulating red and white blood cell: from abnormal to normal. | e.g. White blood cells from 1700 to 7800 | Platelet from 51000 to 157000 Hemoglobin from 5, 2 gram to 14.3 gram 3) Enabling a person to revitalize the basic energy which strengthens the entire body, healing headaches, spitting of blood and obstruction of the gullet. 4) Side-effects due to chemotherapy and radiation (vomiting, dizziness, headache, insomnia, loss of appetite, etc. ) dramatically reduced. | 5) Softening the lump and the subjective symtoms disappeared. | 6) By practice of the New Qigong , not only cancer can be in alleviated, but also other diseases can be healed. It stimulates the flow of qi throughout the body. The following statistics show in the treatment of various forms of cancer (Report from a certain district) Name of Cancer No. of People Effectiveness | Ineffectiveness Breast Cancer 93 83. 6% Lung Cancer 75.1% 24.9% Colon Cancer 72 68.2% | 31.8% Nasopharyngeal 65 64.4% | 35.6% Cancer 16.4% It is also effective with other cancers, such as, esophageal cancer , stomach cancer, rectal cancer, throat cancer, lymph cancer, primary liver cancer, leukemia, uterine cancer, ovary cancer, etc. EFFECTS OF Q/GONG ON PSYCHOSOMATIC AND OTHER EMOTIONALLY-ROOTED DISORDERS | Richard R. Pavek (U.S. A.) SHEN, a specific form of qigong , has beneficial effect on psychosomatic and other emotionally-rooted disorders. A review of 25 selected cases show that Shen qigong is highly . | * 150° | Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 effective in ending these disorders. The cases further demonstrate that there is a body-site relationship between the background emotions involved in these disorders and the organs or other body parts that have dysfunctioned. The mechanism behind disorders such as the irritable bowel syndrome, premenstrual distress, chronic non-biologic psychogenic pain and migraine has been poorly understood. Many of these disorders have been labelled “psychosomatic”, meaning that psychological or . emotional factors are heavily involved in their etiology. However, while the transpersonal psychological factors that predispose one to these disorders have generally been determined, the. precise, internal mechanism by which these external events convert to biological dysfunction has remained a mystery. Because of this, effective treatment methods for these disorders have remained elusive. At the Shen Therapy Institute we have found that applying specific Shen qigong protocols can result in positive, permanent improvement for a number of these disorders. Some of the disorders successfully treated with Shen qigong include menstrual and premenstrual distress, migraine, irritable bowel syndrome, cating disorders and chronic low back syndrome. More specifically we find that; 1. Applying appropriate procedures of Shen qigong to patients suffering from premenstrual distress has resulted in nearly complete amelioration of the grosser and most debilitating symptoms in the majority of cases treated. . 2. Applying Sken qigong procedures to over 40 patients suffering from migraine not only ended most episodes of the disorder but has revealed the psycho-emotional underpinnings in much of this condition, which had not previously been determined to be of psychosomatic origin. Many who had suffered from this complaint weekly or biweekly and received a short series of Shen Qigong treatments now report episode intervals of a year or more, In several of these cases no further migraines have occured. 3. Shen qigong treatments given to a large number of sufferers of unremitting chronic low back pain, both pre-surgery and post-surgery resulted in a high percentage of permanent reduction of pain, considerable improvement in range of motion and an increase in emotional well-being. 4. Additionally, we find Shen qigong procedures to be extremely useful to those who do not present psychosomatic symptoms. Shen qigong treatments have been found useful to patients «151° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 suffering from anxiety, depression, blocked grief and sleep disorders. Shen qigong is useful in accessing and releasing troubling suppressed and repressed emotion and, | sometimes, memory of debilitating early life events. Release of these emotional factors has frequently led to positive behavioral changes. Furthermore, we have demonstrated that Shen qigong procedures can be taught successfully to most health professionals and that the majority possess enough natural gi to be effective. Thus, Shen qigong gives evidence of being a uniquely useful therapeutic modality for a broad range of formerly difficult-to-treat disorders, specifically those disorders where repressed and/or suppressed emotional factors are involved. These discoveries considerably extend the previously known range of qigong treatable disorders. QIGONG AS A PUTATIVE TREATMENT F OR IMMUNO-DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES | Philip S. Lansky (U.S. A. ) This paper will explore the concept of immuno-deficiency syndromes in light of traditional Chinese medical theories. The Western concept of immune system capability will be related both to the concept of wei chi, i.e. the protective energy, as well as to the physical seat of the immune system, i.e. the marrow, as a specific inner “sed,” an aspect of the energy system of the kidney. In light of this conception, the reality of AIDS, as well as such “softer” immunodeficiency syndromes as the chronic picture associated with long standing Epstein Barr virus infections, will be related to specific treatment strategies involving qigong as well as adjunctive herbal treatment. The paper will also describe the author's clinical experience in teaching gigong to patients with AIDS and related syndromes, Finally, the entire matter of building up the body resistance therapy (i.e. qigong and herbs) for immunologic problems will be explored in the modern context of clinical psychoneuroimmunology, an interdisciplinary field gradually emerging in Western medicine. * 152° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001 -1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 INDIAN YOGIC PRANAYAM AND CHINESE QIGONG —A COMPARATIVE STUDY AND ITS APPLICATION IN. TREATMENT OF ASTHMA S.A. A. Ramaiah, M.A. (Se.), A.A. (America) (Babaji Yoga Holistic Hospital, Athanoor, India, and Faculty, Atizona Western College, U.S. A.) Introduction----Historical Research----Yoga and Pranayam (Indian @igong) ptactised from Cape Comorin (Kumari Munai) to Amarnath Himalayas since pre-historic times. Pranic energy (Shakthi) and Qi; A comparative study----Three sources of energy----Air, sunlight and food with six tastes. Asthma (Kanai Noi) ----Yoga Pathology----Deficiency of Pranic energy--—--Vivid description of the pathology of asthma and its aetiology. Yogic Therapy for Asthma; 1.. Kriya Dietotherapy--—Avoid ice-cold material and use warm cooked food with yang pranic energy. 2. Kriya Holistic therapy----Use of sunlight and sun treatment (Jnayuru maruthivam) to increase yang heat energy and kill the virus and germs; use of herbs in India and China for the treatment of Asthma 3. Kriya Hatha Yoga Treatment; Live demonstration of. yogic techniques like Pranayam CIindian Qigong) ete: - , | - Purna Shuddhi Pranayam. . Mooligai Pranayam. . Astham. Pranayam-—--three types. . . Matrika Pranayam - Adhara Vibareethakarani (Supported Topsy Turvy Pose) Paathi Meenasanam with sleeping (Thooka) Pranayam. non &® WH Fe Purna Save Shanthi Asanam and finally Pakka Vasa Shanthi (Idathu) Asanam (left side down) to increase yang energy. Conclusion--—-Indian Pranayam and qigong are better than drugs with contraindications and drug dependency for the treatment of astham---HOLISTIC HEALITH FOR ALL BY 2000 A.D. THROUGH PRANAYAM AND QIGONG ! « 153 + Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 . QIGONG SPIRAL TREATMENT—-SUDARSANA RESEARCH BETWEEN 1978-1987 | Vuokko Raakel Rahtu-Etiainen/Ming-Xi Hua (Finland) | Sudarsana--—- Qigong treatment, is based on my experiments ahd studies concerning Indian Qigong-Yoga in different forms. It is most effective in a combination of Bhakti-Yoga and traditional Chinese medicine. . The gigong treatment I use is very easy to practise, although it has to be done properly both in technical ways and in the right mood of the patient and therapeutist. In theory this treatment appears to be very difficult. But in right circumatances it is easy. I use references, proofs to motivate my treatment from many directions. Here I will take up five of them. 1. Ayurveda, an Indian way to see the energy of a human being in big spiral-formed wheels, the Ayurvedic medicines are herbs with a living spiral energy. 2. Traditional Chinese medicine, with its yin/yang, five elements} diagnostics of eyes, tongue, 13 zang/fu pulses and 28 symptoms of the pulses, asking » listening, looking, palpation and observing the smell of the patient. | 3. From the Western medicine I use anatomy, neurology and psychology and the function of the internal-secretion organs. I slao use the nursing science in my treatment. 4. Free studies by using available books about the function of the br the differences of the right and left hemisphere. 5. Through studies of the book Spiraali-Ympyra I have found proofs for my hypothesis, that anti-clockwise spiral treatment is materializing the energy in the body. The clockwise treatment relieves the body from muscle pains and contractions. Sudarsqna gigong treatment is a way to adjust the internal strength in a human being and also is of high scientific value. I divide my treatment into three sections; 1. the analytical phase | 2. the technical performance 3. the Indian gigong phase I consider that I and my students can turn a disturbing antisocial person to a social one * 154+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 and that we can get the optimum health to an individual by an average of 2-3 treatments. The following diseases have been cured by activating the self-healing system, such as glaucoma, pus running from the ears for 28 years, general neuraglia, headache and so on. Observings; . The patient before the first treatment; The patient was often bloated, talked too much with many other complaints. During the first treatment most patients could not relax very nicely. Moxibustion is usually applied to the acupoints, warming or sometimes burning the acupoints. After and during the second treatment, the patients started trusting in the therapeutist and mostly had been recovered after that. After the third treatment, the patients felt deeper and deeper relaxation. Rememberance had become better. The patients should keep good living habits and have to balance the time between work and rest and have to do systematical home-exercises properly taught by the therapeutist. More and more foreigners are interested in it. When my students follow seriously a clean way of living then they can get optimum results in their treatments. Women's energy is the best in healing because a woman is of earth-power, and when the body is touched, she works with earth. QIGONG IN AUSTRALIA—— AN EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST STRESS Jack Lim ( Qigong School of Australia, Australia) Qigong has but a short history in Australia, and I am proud to say, my Qigong School of Australia has played a pioneering role in introducing qigong to Australia. Besides generally contributing to improvement of health and well-being, qigong is becoming known in Australia as an efficient means to overcome stress. The number of people suffering from stress in the Western world is enormous. The tempo of life is becoming ever faster, however, in order to survive, everyone must keep pace. Therefore there are very few indeed who do not feel this pressure, whether it be at home, at school or at the workplace and in the business world. We have had many students suffering from such symptoms as increased heart beat, physical exhaustion and insomnia while - 155° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
i Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080004-1 some further suffered from peptic ulcers, high blood pressure and heart disease which are telated to stress. More than 50% of the qigong students had been suffering form stress. We carried out a study of 400 students who had been enduring such stress. They were from various fields and occupations; 18% of them were doctors, computer specialists, artists, business executives and lawyers etc, and this category had the most serious symptoms. 12% were students, 45% were workers and other employees, and the remaining 25% were housewieves or retirees. In the teaching of gigong , it has been important to give detailed éxplanations as to how qigong works and to introduce the historical background to the art. This is to help the students have full confidence in gigong and persevere in practising. Dynamic gigong was integrated with quiescent qigong . All the four hundred students in the survey reported marked improvement in their condition. There were 22 cases of high blood pressure among students at the time of their enrolment, and all have experienced gradual lowering, such that fifteen; are no longer in need of any medication and all other cases have seen improvement. | i ; Those who suffered from impaired sleep are now sleeping well. Student are more efficient in their learning and teachers are more relaxed, which has brought about a more cooperative and responsive class of students. | Conclusions ; We have therefore reached the conclusion that gigong is an effective means to combat stress, and its beneficial effect is enjoyed not only by those students directly learning and practishing qigong , but is also experienced indirectly by those who are in constant contact with those students. All these students feel profoundly grateful to the ancient Chinese sages ‘who discovered and developed the art of gigong and to all the qigong masters and scientists in China today who are carrying on and developing this art of longevity | bring well-being and * happiness not only to the people of China but also to the people of the world. * 156 - Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1 THE USE OF THE EMITTED Q/ IN Q/GONG AND ACUPUNCTURE IN THE TREATMENT OF FOOD ALLERGIES Chu Chow (Canada Qigong Health Clinic) Modern technological progress unfortunately has been accompanied by a number of new illnesses that did not exist before. Among them is the problem of food allergies. This is becoming a common problem difficult to cure. Western medicine does not yet have a cure and traditional Chinese medicine also finds this problem difficult to treat. Many food allergy patients become progressively limited in the kinds of food they can eat. Often they are limited to two or three kinds of food for sustaining life. They lose weight, become severely depressed and become progressively weaker and weaker. Typically, these patients have a hungry and depressed physical appearance. Although there are no harmful side-effects from the use of Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of this condition, improvement is minimal with herbs alone. Because of this, the writer decided to eliminate herbal medicine and use a combination of gigong and acupuncture for treatment. 52 food allergy patients were treated by the writer using these techniques. All but two showed some improvement in their condition. The details of the treatment procedures are as follows; Procedures ; Of the 52 cases treated 10 were males and 42 were females. Their age ranged from 9 to 45 years. All had medical diagnosis of food allergy problems with a duration from 1 year to 25 years. All had been previously treated by Western medical techniques without success. Treatment methods; The major treatment consisted of qigong ptojection. This was supported by acupuncture techniques. Acupuncture was used mainly in the early stages of treatment and gigong was used in the later stages. Acupuncture Points Used 1. Ganshu (UB 18), Pishu CUB 20) - 157° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000701080001-1