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USE OF SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAM TO EXAMINE
THE EFFECTS OF THE INFRATONIC QGM ON ELEC-
TRICAL ACTIVITY OF MUSCLES, A DOUBLE-BLIND,
PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY
Richard H. Lee ,B. S.
,
U. S. A.
, Wang Xiaoming
Emitted qi from qigong doctors is a fascinating phenomenon and its study will provide an
insight into qi and contribute to modern medicine. This phenomenon is difficult to study with
scientific protocols in the clinical setting because of the problem of human involvement in the
experiment. In the present study
, and electroacoustical device that simulates the aspects of
emitted qi(the Infratonic QGM) was used because
it provides a much greater level of control
than would a protocol that involves qigong doctors.
For many years Surface Electromyogram (SEMG) has proven to be a versatile tool in the
evaluation
of
chronic
pain syndromes
and
in
the documentation
of extent
of
injury and
progress toward recovery.
A total of 57 subjects were tested. Subjects first filled out a demographic questionnaire?
then proceeded to the testing room where their right shoulder was marked at the selected
treatment
point. The skin surrounding
the mark was abraded with an alcohol wipe and
SEMG was then measured.
Each patient was then treated for ten minutes by either the Infratonic QGM or by the
placebo device. The treatment room administrator was entirely unfamiliar with the QGM and
had no idea which device was the real Infratonic QGM and which were the placebo device.
Once the treatment was completed the subject returned to the testing room where the SEMG
of the shoulder was retested as before.
Of the 57 test subjects
, three left before completing the post test. Of the 54 test subjects
for whom the data set was complete, 27 were in the placebo group and 27 in the Infratonic
QGM test group. The data from SEMG readings of these two groups are as follows
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SEMG (Microvolts)
Before
After
%Change
Placebo
16. 6+ 3. 2
17. 2+ 2. 6
+ 3. 6%
QGM
16. 3+3.
13. 3 + 2. 4
-18. VA
The SEMG readings for the subjects who were treated by the placebo device increased
by
3. 6% whereas the readings for the group treated with the Infratonic QGM decreased by
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18.4%. There
is
a
difference between the two groups
of 22%. The observed
decrease
in
SEfylG indicates that an effect of the Infratonic QGM
is to lower electrical activity of mus^
clesi
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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES ON MEDICAL QIGONG VO-
CALISATION
Gilberto Gori (I>
, Li Xiaoming
(J)
, Giovanni
Gatti (,)
, Valerio Genitoni (,)
, Antonio
Dorigo
(1)
, Nicola Andreano t3) ,Clarbruno Vedruccio
(4)
, Cristina Cavina (4) .Corrado
Bornoroni <!)
.
(1)
Superior Institute of Olistic Medicine Urbino University .Italy
(2)
Beijing College
of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The People's Republic
oi|
China
(3)
European Association of Qiqong (E. A. Qi Go. )
(4)
Engineer
, Hill Electronics , Bologna
, Italy
(5)
President, Superior Institute of Olistic Medicine, Urbino University
, Italy
We have started analysing original recordings of vocal tones performed by taoistic mas-
ters and measuring the frequencies of the notes, we were bewildered from the spectral pure-
ness
|
of the tones, from their perfect correspondence
in the riproducibility even after some:
months and from their incredible stability.
The analysis at the oscilloscope of a sound vibration .commonly named" vocal print of the
word"
, it' s a vibration characterized by damped waves, while the taoistic vocal tone vibration
is ve^y different .because it's characterized by waves of high spectral pureness mono-frequen-l
cy aijd
it
is costant in the time. This last type of waves are, with no doubt
, sinusoidal vocal
wavejs
, stable during time.
It is clear that a person not properly trained ,is not able to maintain the vocal tone of the:
specific wave-length costant during time, but also
is not able to form a sinusoidal character,
j
meaning of a sufficient spectral pureness.
It's probably this ascertainment the foundation of the sacrality of the revealed word in
the ihitiazion traditions.
We have observed the abdominal area: the navel
is in costant temperature in
all the ex-
amined subjects. The area under the navel in these subjects shows certain distinctive charac-
ics,in comparison to the controled subjects
: there is a romboid area marked in the center
*ld spots probably corresponding to the acupuncture points jGUANYUAN (Ren 4) ,SHI-
MEN|(Ren 5),QIHAI(Ren 6).
Then we have started to practice the vocalisation's tecnique of the specific tone in men-
tal peace. After a few minutes of practice the areas under the navel start showing a stronger
terist
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intensity of thermic emission and the subjects felt a heat sensation; then the first paramedian
hot spots appear and their intensity increase during time, tending to come together in a more
spread area.
The ancient discoverers of these energetic tecniques must have been
in possession
of
highly developed knowledges concerning the hierarchy of complex working and the correla-
tion existing between the mechanic and cinetic vibrations and the production and preservation
of energy expleiting methodologies
, that are still not quite clear. We hope that these exercises
will be more and more taught and spread in order to really Use preventive and curative tec-
niques, effective and cheap for treatment of affections.
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STOMACH VOCAL SOUND STIMULATION AND E. A. V.
MEASURE OF ZUSANLICst 36)
V. Genitoni
(I) ,Li Xiaoming™,G. Gori
(1) ,G. Gatti
(1)
, A. Dorigoa) ,C. Bornoroni
( * ,
(1)
Istituto Superiore di Medicina Olistica e di Ecologia-University of Urbino-Italy
(2)
Bejing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
, China
Vocal sounds are part of ancient traditional Chinese medicine and are known to be one of
the Taoist secrets.
Our work has tried to demonstrate the ability of the human voice to induce an organ en-
ergetical
reaction
, in order to establish
a normal pattern
of
qi
in acupuncture
points and
meridians.
The vocalization of Li Xiaoming has been recorded with a digital equipment in a second
time, the recording has been rearranged in a professional musical studio in order to obtain 10
minutes of a continuous sound. This has been possible through a sophisticated mixing dupli-
cation technique based on vocal computerized sampling.
We chose, as a vocal reference
, the healing sound of the stomach. This sound has been
proposed for several minutes to 10 voluntary subjects, in a silent room, lying on beds, with
eyes closed.
Measures of ZusanliCst 36)on the left leg of the voluntary subjects was obtained with a
cybernetical equipment named Orthogen 200 built in California ,U. S. A.
This equipment
is based on the old technique proposed by the German doctor Voll in
1957, now rearranged in a more sophisticated computerized version.
Many studies, also developed in China, have been enhanced to detect electrical potential,
recorded on the skin of patients but, in this instrument, the measure is very accurate and con-
sent to determine the exact amount of energy present in an acupuncture point related also to
the time necessary to induce distant organ reaction level. That means, in other words, to ob-
tain the vascularization of the organ through the chemical-physical reaction measured in the
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domaln - First data are suggestive of a significative modification of the energy pattern
inL
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.
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
( l°Wer 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 {joints 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
sjcale , 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
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