Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 maintains itself at the border between order and chaos. The living being appears as a highly complex self-organizing chemical system provided by program, and attractor in the phase space, and orbitation of dynamic regimens of energy exchanges and of chemical transformations, that maintain itself,constructing its proper order and dynamic stability with the function of feed-back intervention and modification of the sur- roundings after a personal history of interactions. The self- -ordering structures and the func- tional rhythms are maintained alive from the continual flow, incessant exchange of informa- tion particles; this is the “glue” that maintains the dynamic linkage of life in the living be- ings, ‘The individual cells in the human organism work cooperatively organized coupled from communication mechanisms and at-distance correlations mediated from coupling structures; dynamical networks, patterns, functional designs, configurations that are conformed with interferential modality. Human organism is an organically working superposition of all these networks , all these patterms, intercrossed in particular points following the interferential relation between them ; these points are very important points for intervention (diagnostic or therapeutic) into the dynamic of flows,of the dynamic of networks generating them. The stability of the global system depends upon the continuity and constancy of the inte- grated flows of the material components and the connecting information particles between the various parts of the organism. The armonic union and creative cooperation of these fields together maintains in the hu- man being the physical, the mental and the psychic health: the “global metabolism flow sys- tem 7; e the “mental flow system”, “the psychic-spiritual flow system”. Alterations and | blocking of the metabolic flow of one of these three fields provokes correlated alterations in. the other two fields as well as in all the being; this is the sickness, the disease. An extension of the dynamical hypothesis in the construction of the vital, proposes to integrate the field of gi and the field of consciousness in the quantistic-relativistic theory of | the fields: the action of the forces that interacts between the material bodies is mediated by the “glue” the messenger particles, that for the qi field we propose to call qi-ons. All that the human being lives and experiments with his consciousness in the physical reality comes through the mediation of the qi-ons, in this relation only the human personality | being able to intervene modifying creatively or destructively the natural relation flows. The general program of diagnostic and therapeutical intervention on which we are work- ing from many years, foresee the means of intervention towards a strategy involving all the layers of the sick person. The coupling is fundamental in the communication; the transmission of the energy of in- formation, occur only if the transmitter and the receiver are structurally and rhythmically resonant. We search for the most accurate specificity of the coupling; the love from the heal- *70° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 er towards the sick-man; the qigong action to reequilibrate the disharmony in the qi-ons flows of the control energy; physical means communication with accurate geometrical struc- ture, the proper pattern and the harmonic frequence to ensure the modulatory activity of the physical flows (photons, solitons, chemical substances, etc. ) to contro! the biological tis- sues equilibrium. 1—4 A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF HEALING BY QIGONG Kazu Mori, Yujiro Ikemi,Chai Jinyu Meiji College of Oriental Medicine Hiyoshi-Cho Funai-Gun, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan 329-03 Research Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine Shanghai Qigong Research Institute Qigong which has spread all over the world as a method of treating or preventing dis- eases and promoting health is one of the fields of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and has been established on the same fundamental theory or the same principle of clinical effects as acupuncture and herbal medicine. There is no exaggeration to say that the questions such as “what is qi?” or “what is qigong?” might be the same as to ask “what are human beings?” Thus, considering qigong as a “medicine of qi” ina broad sense, we tried to reveal the mech- anism of clinical effects in TCM including qigong through scientific approach. Subjects were 200 persons in total, consisting of healthy adult volunteers and patients with various diseases. Methods such as examination of the literature, neuro science, nuclear medicine, image technology and metric medicine were used for scientific approach to principle of clinical effects of qigong to perform comprehensive analysis and discussion. The following results were obtained; (1)Examination of the literature such as, among others, The yellow Emperor's Cannon of Internal Medicine revealed that “Mind control” is the fundamental principle of qigong and acupuncture therapy. Mind control is the key concept of TCM, which suggests that it is the most important element for clinical effectiveness of therapy to control functions of the brain as the center of the inner qi both in the mental and physical aspects. (2) Aiming at scientification of mind control, the effect of acupuncture stimulation on the cerebral functions was analyzed by using EEG topography and positron CT (PET). Changes in EEG topogram caused by acupuncture stimulation could be observed all over the cortex, though they were prominent in the area from the frontal lobe to the parietal lobe. Positron CT images indicated that acupuncture stimulation temporarily activated from the paleocortex to the neocortex, affecting a wide range of the cranial nerve cells including Ajo nerve. ; * 71° Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 (3)Considering mind control as a multidimensional phenomenon pattern involving com- plicated factors, we performed multivariate analysis of complaints of patients with chronic pain to establish a theoretical model common to pain control and mind control. It indicated that this theoretical model of mind control was not only the principle of healing of TCM in+ cluding qigong but also a fundamental principle of recovery from illness of religious therapy. 1—5 THE INFLUENCE OF QIGONG TRAINING ON COHER- ENCE OF EEG DURING ONE YEAR PERIOD Yang Sihuan, Yang Qinfei, Shi Jiming, Cao Yi* Institute of Qigong Science, Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 100029 Beijing In this study, we analysed the coherence of EEG to observe the trainees’ EEG regular- ly. The young students, who were 17 to 20 years old, had been practicing “Zhanzhuang Gong” for one year. We try to find out the effects of the qigong training period on coherence of EEG. 32 persons in the qigong group and 35 persons in the control group were involved in! this experiment. During one year period of observation, the subjects of the qigong group practiced qigong for 40 minutes every day. The EEGs of the qigong group were analysed ev- ery half year in meditation, and the EEGs were also recorded before learning qigong. The students in the control group did not take part in the qigong training and the EEGs of them were investigated at rest twice with an interval of one year. In the test, eight channels of EEGs were simultaneously processed by a computer on line for 20 minutes. The program, “computer evaluation system for the qigong state” was provided by the “Laboratory of Bio-| Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University”. After one year of qigong training, total coherence between the left and right frontal re- | gions increased from 0. 84-0. 07 to 0. 87-LO. 06 (p<0. 05). Before qigong training, the total! coherence between the left and right occipital areas was 0. 68-0. 14. After half year's train- ing, it increased to 0. 7940. 10, and after one year’s training, it was 0. 760.10. Self com- | parision showed the probability was less than 0. 001. The total coherence between the left. and right temporal areas before qigong training was 0. 48+0. 17; half year after qigong train- ing it was 0.550. 13, compared with that before qigong training (p<0. 05). One year after, qigong training it was 0. 64-£0. 12, compared with those before qigong training and half year after qigong training (p<0. 001). Qigong training had no significant influence on coherence. between the left and right central regions and between adjacent anterior and posterior brain. regions (F,-C,, F,-C,, C.- O,,C,-O;). It had no significant difference between the gigong group without learning and the first recording of the control group at the same time. The da-' ta from the two tests of the control group showed that the total coherence did not change sig- * 726 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 nificantly between the left and right corresponding brain regions and between the anterior and posterior adjacent brain regions. The results showed that qigong training had affected coherence of EEGs between the two frontal regions, between two occipital regions and between two temporal regions of the qigong group in meditation; The most significant is that, with the increase of training peri- od, the total coherence value between the left and right temporal areas went up. It seems that there is certain dosage-effect relationship. It is suggested that the value of the total co- herence between the left and right temporal areas should be comparatively sensitive and ob- jective parameter of meditation. This study was supported by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine * Laboratory of Bio-Control Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University 1—6 MEASUREMENT OF PHYSICOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND OTHERS OF QIGONG MASTERS UNDER THE QI- GONG STATE Yoshio Machi Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Denki University It is quite important to measure the physiological and engineering phenomena of qigong masters for analyzing the qigong mechanism. In this report, we used the following measure- ments as much as possible; EEG topograph, three dimentional display of brain wave by us- ing an IBVA, heart rate and blood pressure by a Finapres BP Monitor, breathing rate moni- tor through his nose by using a microphone to his nose, thermograph and also far-infrared signal detection as a function of time from qigong masters. Dynamic qigong case When the surface temperature of his face and hands measured went up under the qigong state, the change came out from the effective spots by applying moxa. Also his heart rate and blood pressure increased about 26% and 40% respectively compared with his normal condition. At the same time, his breathing rate increased about 247%. Although the experi- ment time under the qigong state was only 90 seconds, a special oscillation about 1Hz in his , far-infrared radiation was detected from his palm,but it was not detected before and after. The oscillation signal wave could not pass through a 2 mm thick aluminum plate and also a 5 mm thick cardboard plate. In this case, a and 8 waves in his right side brain worked actively compared with his left side. Static qigong case ° 738 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6