Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 time domain. First data are suggestive of a significative modification of the energy pattern in- duced on stomach,as a response to a passive listening of the digitalized continuous sound re- produced on a tape recorder. More incisive pattern is instead obtained by the direct vocalization of the sound as sup- ported by classical qigong exercise ,recorded with an Orthogen equipment ,on some student of Li Xiaoming. ‘Final work will be sustained by more subject investigation and statistical and graphical analysis will be proposed. 1—25 THE EFFECT OF QIGONG ON THERAPEUTIC BALANC- : ING MEASURED BY ELECTROACUPUNCTURE AC- CORDING TO VOLL(EAV) Kenneth M. Sancier , Qigong Institute, East West Academy of Healing Arts, 450 Sutter Street, San Francisco,CA 94108 Electroacupuncture According to Voll(EAV)was used to monitor the effects of qigong on therapeutic balancing of subjects. In EAV the electrical conductance of the skin above an individual acupuncture point is measured using a blunt metal probe and a low current. Diag-. nosis depends on measuring the maximum electrical conductance and its time dependence. | The conductance is measured by a meter that is calibrated from 0 to 100. A reading of 50 in-: dicates that the organ associated with the acupuncture point is free of pathological problems. | Higher readings (higher conductance) are associated with inflammation and lower readings : (lower conductance) with degeneration of an organ. In EAV, “indicator drop”is an important ; diagnostic criterion of a functionally disturbed organ. Indicator drops occur when the conduc- tance of a given acupuncture point decreases from an apparent maximum value and then lev-- els off. EAV measurements were made before and after eleven subjects practiced qigong. Mea- surements requiring about 5 minutes were made of the conductance properties at 24 acupunc- | ture points at the ends of the meridians of the fingers and toes of a subject. The instrumental test parameters were:1. 25 volts d.c. output voltage, 12. 7 microamperes current output at full scale, and 95,000 ohms resistance at midscale (50). Tap water was applied to the skin | surface in the region of the acupuncture point before pressing a brass probe (1/8" diameter) gently onto the acupuncture point. The subject held the other electrode in one hand. The computer was programed to provide information on twenty organs an physiological functions of the body for the right and left side of the body. . Two series of EAV measurements were made by the same operator and equipment. In both series, the subjects were asked to perform a qigong exercise of their choosing, usually . 90 . Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 meditation or moving qigong. In the first series four subjects were examined by EAV before and after qigong exercise. Three of the subjects were experienced qigong practitioners. The fourth subject was balanced by one of the qigong practitioners. The results show that qigong practice decreased the average meter readings of the four subjects taken as a group from 70. 8+4.8 to 52.742. 4. The average change was -25. 5-14. 9% with a statistical significance of p=0. 004. Indicator drops that were observed for all subjects prior to qigong decreased in val- ue after qigong practice. For example ,the sum of all indicator drops for each of three subjects decreased in value from 20,22 and 53 to zero,respectively,and for the fourth subject it de- creased from 129 to 28. The second series of measurements was made six months later with seven subjects. Each of the subjects was examined by EAV three times , but the subjects did not reveal until after- ward whether they had practiced qigong before the second or third examination. This “blind” protocol insured that the operator did not know when a subject had practiced qigong. For four subjects the average EAV readings were decreased by qigong practice from 72. 34:7. 6 to 53. O+9. 8(-27. 347. 6%)and increased for three subjects from 66. 5+12.7 to 73.1410. 4¢+ 10. 35.7%). When indicator drops were present in a subject's EAV before qigong ,they de- creased or became zero after qigong practice. The results of this preliminary study indicate that EAV is responsive to changes associ- ated with qigong practice. Therefore, EAV may provide basic information on how qigong bal- ances body energy and affects specific meridians or organs. 1—26 QIGONG:BALANCING BIO-ELECTRICITY BY BREATH- ING BEFORE BIO-KINETICS R. Lindsay Anglen 1300 Fieldcrest ,Columbia, MO 65203 USA In this study 4 subjects were evaluated in an effort to determine if performing a specific breathing gigong would actually effect the bio-electric levels of the body. All subjects were e- valuated before and after peoforming meditation to see what changes had occurred ,if any. For sake of ease and objectivity an instrument called the electro-meridian imaging unit (AKA Ry- odoraku , Tokigraph,etc)was used to evaluate the source points of each individual. The source points or/and wrist points were used for standardization. When the pre-and post evaluations were compared, improvements,in regards to balancing of the individuals bioelectric levels, were noted in almost all instances. Ole Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 1-27 EFFECT OF QIGONG ON PERSONALITY Tang Cimei, Wei Xing Institute of Psychology ,Chinese Academy of Sciences » Beijing, 100012,China It is well known that personality and health are closely related. For example, the i inci- dence of CHD is associated with type A behaviour pattern (TABP) ; several psychosomatic diseases are usually associated with neuroticism and so on. So if these types of personality could be modified by practising qigong ,it should be useful to prevent and cure some diseases. ‘In the first part of our research, the effect of qigong on personality was investigated with the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ)and Type A Behaviour Pattern Questionnaire. in One hundred and twenty-two subjects who have practised qigong more than two years by a mean age of 65 were used as the experimental group. Ninety subjects aged over 60 who had never practised qigong were used as the control group. The results showed that the N score was significantly lower in the qigong group than that in the control group. The persons of TABP amounted to 39.3% in the qigong group,51,1% in the control group. In the second part of our research,all of the subjects were college students aged 21. Fifty subjects. had practised qigong more than two years, and 97 subjects had never practised qigong. The results were similar to the first part of our research,i.e. ,N score of EPQ andi percentage of TABP were significantly lower in the qigong group than those in the controll group. These results suggest that qigong can relieve neuroticism,and TABP can be changed by practising qigong. As a great number of subjects were investigated in these researches’ mentioned above the results should suggest that qigong is beneficial to correct the unhealthy: tendency of personality to certain extent. But because of the cross-section study ,it was diffi-. cult to exclude the factor of self-selection, then the longitudinal study was carried out by us. In the third part of our research,the data of EPQ and TABP were collected from 158 college students when they started to practise qigong. Two years later, EPQ and TABP were mearsured again. There were 33 subjects who had persisted qigong exercise during the two: years »but 83 subjects only for several days and 42 subjects for a few months. The N score of EPQ i in the perisistent group decreased from 13. 45.1 to 11.1+4. 9(p<0. 02). No signifi-: cant change of N score was observed in the third group (83 subjects,N score from 13. 24.7 to 14. 2:5. 2). In the persistent group, TH score of TABP decreased significantly and CH score decreased slightly. In the third group,both TH and Ch score had no remarkable change between two measures. All of these results suggest that qigong has positive effect on regula- tion of the unhealthy tendency in personality. +926 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 1—28 THE ROLE OF QIGONG ON MENTAL HEALTH Wang Jisheng Institute of Psychology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences This study includes three experiments. I. Evaluating the role of qigong on mental health by the symptom check list 90(SCL-90) 1. The effect of qigong on mental health I evaluated mental health condition in 27 persons who had exercised qigong for four months by using the of Symptom Check List 90(SCL-90). My research results indicate that gigong has good effect on the 13 items. Statistic test reaches remarkable level except the average positive item and the depression item. 2. The effect of exercising time on the mental health Table 1. Qigong effects on mental health M2SD M=+SD group of exercising group of cxercising item t P qigong for less than qigong for more than two years(153 cases) two years(119 cases) | Total Scores 1. 5680. 447 1.43740. 361 2.91 | <0. 01 TTT ————— — Mumbers of positive items 31. 88418. 59 26. 96+16. 86 2.28 | <<0. 05 =f ____| Average positive items 2.560, 618 2.3940, 56 2.39 | <0. 05 Somatization 1.56740. 661 1.4520. 49 1.65 | 20. 05 Obsessive-compulsive 1. 882-0. 598 1. 7240. 59 2.28 | <0. 05 | ___ Interpersonal sensitivity 1.7190. 607 1.5640. 49 2.52 | <0.01 Depression 1. 6070. 57 1.480. 43 2. | <0. 01 Anxiety 1. 490-60. 555 1. 340. 45 2.38 | <20. 05 Nostility 1. 578-20. 517 1. 46+0. 47 1.87 | =0. 05 : ; Phobic anxiety 1, 3292+ 0. 45 1.220, 43 1.98 | <0. 05 Paranoid ideation 1.48240. 514 1.40. 47 1.3, | 0. 05 Psychotism 1. 491-£0. 443 1. 3140. 36 3.5 <0. O01 — Others 1.6240. 577 1, 4540. 55 2.39 | <0. 05 The results of the research indicate that the group of exercising qigong for more than two years is lower than the group exercising qigong for less than two years on total scores, numbers of positive items ,average positive items and ten factors scores. Statistic test gets re- markable level except somatization and paranoid ideation. The research results indicate that the longer people practise qigong the better their men- tal health is. I. The role of qigong on type A behavior pattern «© 93 « Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 I studied the gigong group and the control group by a questionnaire of type A be- haviour pattern. There are 89 cases in the qigong group and 144 cases in the control group. My research results indicate that; 1. The qigong group's percentage of type A behaviour pattern is 22. 43 percent. The control group’ s percentage of type A behavior pattern is 51. 39 percent. The qigong group's percentage of type A behavior pattern is remarkably lower than the control group. : 2. Taking 30 scores as the standard, x’ test of the result of qigong and the control | group indicate that x?=17.05,P<0. 001. The difference is remarkable. 3. The average and standard of the qigong group is 24.517+8. 516. The average and standard of control group is 29. 813-47. 696. The test of average of qigong and control group indicates that t=4. 784,P<0. O1. The difference is remarkable. According to my research results,I think »Sticking to qigong is helpful to change type A behavior pattern. IL. The role of qigong on symptoms of psychosomatic disorders I have designed a questionnaire of 40 problems to see the role of qigong on symp- toms of psychosomatic disorders. The effect of qigong on these symptoms is divided into six grades. Qigong makes the symptoms much heavier ,heavy ,no change, light ,much light ,dis- appearance. I investigated 100 cases of psychosomatic disorders, including coronary heart dis- ease, hypertension, gastric ulcer and neurasthenia, etc. They all exercised qigong. They only answered some. items about the symptoms they had. These 100 cases were divided into two groups; the first qigong group practising qigong for more than two years and the second for less than two years. : The Research results indicate that; 1. The curative effect on the symptoms of psychosomatic disorders is from 50 per- cent 'to 80 percent. 2. The curative effect of qigong on most items of psychosomatic disorders symptoms. is from 20 percent to 45 percent. 3. The curative effect rate and cure rate on most items is higher in the first group than the second group. I also studied 33 cancer patients by the aforesaid questionnaire. I got the similar re- sults. According to this research,I think ,qigong has a good curative effect on psychoso-: matic disorders. *O4e¢ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 |
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 1—29 A SURVEY OF INTERRELATION BETWEEN QIGONG CONCERNING 1-23 FACTORS OF INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY IN YOUNG PEOPLE Liu Tianjun, Zhang Li Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine , Beijing 100029,China The aim of the experiment is to survey if qigong gives influence on factors of intelligence and personality of young people. Method; The experiment surveyed two groups of students in th Beijing College of Tradi- tional Chinese Medicine who had done qigong exercise or not during one year with the Raven’ s Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and Edwards’ Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) for two times. Result; As to SPM, the difference of scores between the two groups were not remark- able whether from self-contrast survey of EPPS of the group who had not practised qigong, the scores of the third item (ORD) were higher obviously (first time 13. 18114. 838,second time 15. 394-3. 733,p<0. 05) and the seventh item (INT) was lower remarkably (first time 16. 788-E5. 561,second time 14. 697+3. 748,P<0. 05),and the difference of other surveys were not remarkable. Discussion; According to the survey of SPM, it shows that qigong can‘ t influence the logic thinking capacity of young people. As to the survey of EPPS, the second group was higher in ORD and lower in INT but the first group did not make such changes. It shows that qigong can stabilize some factors of personality of young people. 1—30 INFLUENCE OF QIGONG FOR INTELLIGENCE ON UNI- VERSITY STUDENT MEMORY Pan Keliang, Wang Fanglin ,Wu Liuzhen Qigong Research Section, Shaanxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xi- anyang 712083,China Seventeen university student volunteers took part in the qigong exercises and experi- ments. Observations one month before and after qigong practice were compared and handled by statistical management. There was significant difference. The results showed that: (1) Those who had seriously practised qigong improved their memory in various aspects (di- rection ,ynumerals ,order ,ete. ). (2) Memory of various fields was improved, lasting for 24 hours and more. (3) It not only indicated that the memory was improved after each time's practice of qigong, 958 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 but/also had its significance when the improvement was applied to“stress reaction”. (4) The qigong sets employed can really improve student memory ,easy to learn and popular- ize, ' 1—31 ASTUDY OF THE BLOLOGICAL EFFECT OF THE EMIT- TED QI ON MICROBE Liu Zirong,Wang Jinshen,Ren Jianping, Yuan Hua Microbiology Department ,Shandong University , Yuanji Study Research Institute, E Zhou , Hubei Province ,China The emitted qi was produced to act respectively on prokaryote- -Staphylococcus aureus } Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus cereus, eukaryote — saccharomyces sp. and biological big molecules — seven pectin enzymes. After 13 times of repeated experiments, the physical property of the emitted qi was proved from the following aspects. ‘Firstly »Staphylococcus aureus was treated by it for 8 minutes,the lethal rate was 76% , 1. 29 times as effective as that of the bactericidal rate of 2% carbolie acid in equal time. ‘Secondly ,it had different lethal influence on different bacteria. For example ,the lethal rate on Bacillus species was 41.9% ,while on non-Bacillus species was 72.9%. The former was lower than the latter. It was also different in microbe’ s different growing period. For ex+ ample the lethal rate on vegetative cells of Bacillus cereus is 50% (mean of 4 times’ experi- ments) and it was 41.3% with regard to the resting spore. Thirdly ,it had lethal influence on not only prokauyote but also eukaryote. For example, the lethal rate on Saccharomyces carlbergensis was 34%. Fourthly, it could lead to changes of the resistance of Staphylococcus aureus, Pseu- domonas aeruginosa to 22 different kinds of medicines. | Fifthly,it had obvious influence on pectin enzyme activity. \Sixthly , it could act through some glass obstacles, which showed its strong penetration and direction. In brief, the biological effect produced by the emitted gi on microbe is much similar to that produced by physical and chemical factors. Therefore, the identification of the physical property of the emitted qi is reliable and convincible. (96+ Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001 6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 1—32 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EMITTED QI AND PHYSICAL — CHEMICAL FACTORS ON THE PROTO- PLASMIC MUTAGENESIS OF MICROMONOSPORA ECHINOSPORD . Liu Zirong,Ren Tao,Ren Jianping ; Zhang Zhixiang ** , Yuan Hua‘ * Dept. of Microorganism ,Shandong University Yuan Study Research Institute, E Zhou , Hubei Province ,China Micronomicin is a new antibiotic. People are getting interested in it for its low poi- sonousness. Since its fermented liquid only consists of 69% micronomicin,the cycle of post- preparation is long with high cost, restriction in popularisation is imposed. We have proved, the materiality of the emitted qi;we used UV —8MOP, laser and the emitted qi to treat the protoplast of micronomicin-producer. The ultraviolent light in the presence of 8-methoxypso- ralen (8 MOP) was used to inactivate and mutate the protoplast ,irradiating for 30 sec. 60 sec. 90 sec. and 120 sec. respectively,and the death rate after treatment was 13.7%, 66. 7% ,82,4% and 85. 6% respectively; 5mJ and 8mJ of laser was used to mutate the proto- plast,and the death rate after treatment was 83. 7% and 87.6%. The emitted qi was used’to treat the protoplast for 5 min and 8 min ,the death rate was 91.67% and 85.5% respectively. The differentiation of the regencration strain was also dif- ferent. After treatment by the emitted qi the differentiation was the more obvious than oth- ers,and its positive mutation was the highest in the three methods, the GMC2b content of UQ—5—32 mutant strain was 75%. We can conclude that the emitted gi has these features ;ability of killing microorganism ; ability of changing strains properties . The ernitted gi can be applied to industrial breeding. 41—33 THE REPEATED EXPERIMENTS BY USING THE EMIT- TED Qi IN TREATMENT OF SPINAL CORD INJURY Wan Sujian,He Yuzhu,Hao Shuping”* ,Liu Yuding* » Yu Chuan ** Qigong Institute, Beijing Military Region Hebei Langfarg People’s Hospital , Beijing Agricultural University 18 small test pigs were used in this study. They were divided in three groups (Group A, B,C). Spinal cord injury was made by the Allen’s method with straight drop strength 400gcf (50 X 80cm). Group C was the control group. The clinical effect of treatment and its mecha- nism were observed in the acute stage of spinal cord injury treated by the Ba Gua Induction O78 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6 Qigong 2-3 times per day. After 89 days treatment, the paraplegic pigs in Group A all could walk, the nervous function recovered to some extent. The nervous function of 83% of the pigs in Group B were recovered. Not any one in Group C could stand . The result showed ob- vious difference (P<0. 01). The autopsy revealed that the degree of paraplegia was propor- tional to the atrophy and adhesion of spinal cord. This study proved that the Ba Gua Induc- tion Qigong could produce a biological effect in regulating qi and blood,as well as the meridi- ans. It can improve the regional circulation, remove blood stasis with calm and analgisic ef- fect. In conclusion,the Ba Gua Induction Qigong has good effect on ESCI. 1—34 MODIFIED EFFECT OF THE EMITTED QI ON CLOSE- | OPEN KINETIC PROCESS OF SODIUM CHANNELS OF RAT CULTURAL NEURON CELL Liu Anxi,Zhao Jing, Zhao Yong ,Du Zhiqin Department of Biology ,Nankai University , Tianjin 300071 The action of the emitted qi was tested on axon diaphragmatic and culture neuron cell of rat by using the voltage clamp and patch clamp technique in electrophysiology. The excitable activity of the emitted qi was determined by the single sodium channel. The results are sum- marized as follows. 1. Under the condition of the voltage clamp , holding potential= —50mV,Vm= —10mV, | the peak inward sodium current INa=—0. 46+0. 02 uA. cm when the emitted qi was applied to the left or right hand at a distance, 0.5 m for 12 min. INa=-0. 7040.01 uA.cm. The peak of sodium current increased by about 40% ,the control was by about 2.7%. : 2. The sodium channel of culture neuron had one type of magnitude. Single channel cur- rents had conductance of 10. 6-E0. 01 pS in normal. The open-time of the sodium channel was’ usually 2. 1+0. 02 ms. When the emitted qi was applied directly to the culture neuron mem_- brane with the hand at a distance 0.5 m for 14 min. »conductance of 16.740. 02. pS. The open-time of the sodium channel increased by the emitted qi was not modified. 1—35 SPECTRUM ANALYSIS EFFECT OF THE EMITTED Qi ON EEG OF NORMAL SUBJECTS Li Desong , Yang Qinfei, Li Xiaoming, Shi Jiming Institute of Qigong Science , Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine , Bei- jing 100029,China It is still a disputable question if a qigong master can emit qi to influence others without any psychological suggestion. The spectrum analysis is a mature technique for the study of brain function. In these experiments the EEGs of a qigong master and subjects were syn-| chronically recorded ,and one qigong master and twelve normal subjects took part in the ex- e 98 . Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000400430001-6