Fn earn menses ececerrecmemercacmacn ccc eracasaaamamaaacaasacaaaasacaccaaaacaaaaaaaasasasaaaaaaaaacasaasaacaiaiaaaaial Approved For Release’8b685768" ClA-RDP96-00792R000200370005-1 PAGE: 0046 TNQUIRE=D0C 12D ITEM NO=00547079 ENVELOPE CDSN. = LGxX670 MCN = 90314/14650 TOR = 903140745 RTTUZYUW RUEKJCS1520 3140746-UUUU--RUEALGX. ZNR UUUUU eee R AODT TasaQ@or 50) EM JOINT ASHINGTON DC R 100042Z NOV 90 FM FBIS OKINAWA JA TO AIG 4581 RUEADWD/DA WASHINGTON DC//DASG-MIR// RUEORDF/DIR AFMIC FT DETRICK MD//IS// ACCT FBOW-EWDK BT CONTROLS UNCLAS IL - SERIAL: 0W1011004290 BODY PASS: | COPY TO PROD TEP COUNTRY: PRC SUBJ: TRADITIONAL. CHINESE MEDICINE. ALLEVIATES AIDS PAIN SOURCE: BEIJING XINHUA IN ENGLISH 1514 GMT 9 NOV 90 TEXT: ((TEXT)) BEIJING, NOVEMBER 9 (XINHUA) -- WHEN 50 AIDS PATIENTS WERE TREATED WITH TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE IN TESTS CONDUCTED BY THE OREGON COLLEGE OF ORIENTAL MEDICINE, THEIR CHRONIC PAIN WAS GREATLY LESSENED, AND THE COST WAS REDUCED BY 30 PERCENT TO 50 PERCENT. DR. FREDRIC COLLEY GAVE THE INFORMATION TO THE CHINESE PARTICIPANTS AT THE CURRENT SINO-AMERICAN AIDS SYMPOSIUM. IT IS NOW A FACT THAT TRADIOIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE HELPS TO ALLEVIATE THE PAIN OF SOME AIDS PATIENTS AND TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE, HE SAID. PROFESSOR WU PINGBO OF THE INSTITUTE OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE SAID "TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE HAS ITS SPECIAL THEORETICAL SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT." THE TREATMENT OF OVER 3,000 AIDS PATIENTS IN AFRICA DONE BY WU AND HIS COLLEAGUES HAS PROVED TO BE VERY EFFECTIVE: THE LIVES OF THE PATIENTS WERE PROLONGED AND THEIR SYMPTOMS ALLEVIATED. ACCORDING TO THE THEORY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, AIDS IS CAUSED BY HIV INFECTION, WHICH CAN LEAD TO A DEFICIENCY OF OI t (VITAL ENERGY) AND BLOOD. CHINESE DOCTORS ARE NOW. TRYING TO USE QIGONG “(DEEP BREATHING EXERCISES), ACUPUNCTURE “AND ‘TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL HERBS TO CURE THE DISEASE. “tik MAIN PRINCIPLE OF CURING AIDS BY QIGONG IS, BY WAY OF SELE. PRACTISE AND. SELF-ADJUSTMENT, TO STRENGTHEN EN THE ORGANIC FUNCTIONS. AND “IMMUNITY SO AS TO SUPPORT THE VITAL ENERGY AND EXPEL THE UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000200370005-1
Approved For Releas® 3665759/)$=5c1A-RDP96-00792R000200370005-1 ae PAGE: 0047 EPIDEMIC VIRUS," SAID CUI JINCAI OF THE TIANJIN MEDICAL COLLEGE. PROF. JIN SIYUAN OF THE SINO-JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL HAS FOUND THROUGH EXPERIMENTS 14 KINDS OF CHINESE TRADITIONAL HERBS WHICH ARE EFFECTIVE IN CHECKING THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS. "MOST WESTERN MEDICINE, ALTHOUGH PROVED EFFECTIVE IN TREATING AIDS, HAS SIDE EFFECTS OR IS POISONOUS. CHINESE TRADITIONAL HERBS, EVEN WHEN THEY ARE USED OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, WILL NOT LEAD TO NEGATIVE RESULTS," THE PROFESSOR SAID. ' PROFESSOR YANG WEIYI OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE SAID THAT TRADITIONAL REHABILITATION MEDICINE, WHICH INCLUDES THERAPY, ACUPUNCTURE, BREATHING EXERCISES, PHYSICAL EXERCISES, DIET, PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY, CAN INHIBIT HIV REPLICATION, REINFORCE AND REGULATE THE PATIENT'S IMMUNITY AND PREVENT SECONDARY INFECTIONS. CHINESE DOCTORS HOLD THAT AFTER ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT, THE IMMUNE SYSTEM OF AIDS PATIENTS IS ADJUSTED AND THEIR ABILITY TO RESIST DISEASE IS RAISED. ADMIN ENDALL) 091514[ ———ft011.015 MY 10/0043z Nov SG1I ( BT #1520 NNNN UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000200370005-1