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2013年11月1日 星期五

在沒有污染,空氣清新,環境優美,青山綠水,氧氣充沛,負氧離子豐富的度假村,或者海濱林區或綠地原野,認真修練健身抗癌養生Guolin.Qigong郭林氣功,能助晚期危癥癌瘤患者早日福康

在沒有污染,空氣清新,環境優美,青山綠水,氧氣充沛,負氧離子豐富的度假村,或者海濱林區或綠地原野,認真修練健身抗癌養生的郭林氣功,能助晚期危癥癌瘤患者早日福康。

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郭林氣功guolin qigong 健身抗癌養生,對各種癌癥患者手術及化療放療后康復有很多驗效實證

郭林氣功guolin qigong 健身抗癌養生,對各種癌癥患者手術及化療放療之后的康復,40多年以來海內外積累有很多驗效實證。
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健身抗癌郭林气功 [平装]

陈秀坤 (作者)

請參看北京人民體育出版社《健身抗癌郭林氣功》,商務印書館香港繁體字版《抗癌養生郭林氣功》等有關書刊和中外文網頁。
參考資料:《健身抗癌郭林氣功》,《抗癌養生郭林氣功》

香港防癌會-賽馬會癌症康復中心 郭林氣功班 (初班) 日期:2013年11月19日

AntiCancer GuoLin Qigong@HKACS- Jockey Club Cancer Rehabilitation Centre
香港防癌會-賽馬會癌症康復中心
郭林氣功班 (初班)
日期: 2013年11月19日
地點: 香港黃竹坑南朗山道30號
Tel: 3921 3833, 3921 3825
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郭林氣功班 (初班)
日期:2013年11月19日
地點:香港黃竹坑南朗山道30號

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2013年7月25日 星期四

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2013年7月15日 星期一

中国医科院肿瘤医院副院长王建璋教授:病人练郭林气功后,提高了健康水平,增强了免疫功能。


郭林新气功抗癌的机理

http://kf.cnhelpca.com 资讯来源:互联网 资讯作者:张成成 发布日期:2012年12月11日
资讯导读:癌细胞是厌氧细胞,因为缺氧造成它各种功能的改变,以至不断地生长。如果能大量供给它氧气,是可以抑制它的生长或消灭它。郭林气功治癌强调大量吸氧,这是完全合乎科学的......
郭林气功经过40余年、千百万人的亲身实践,证明它的确是一套行之有效的”辨证施治、动静相兼、简明易学、不易出偏“的抗癌防癌、强身健体、延年益寿的优秀气功;并且得到了很多医学家、科学家的关注与肯定。1998年,郭林新气功被国家体育总局首批评审为”健身气功功法“,把郭林气功列为对抗肿瘤康复行之有效的运动,并在全国推广。
中国医科院肿瘤医院副院长王建璋教授说:“病人练郭林气功后,提高了健康水平,增强了免疫功能。郭林气功作为肿瘤治疗的一个方面是可以考虑的。”
王建璋教授结合临床病例及癌症患者的康复经验,提到郭林新气功抗癌具有以下机理:
1.癌细胞是厌氧细胞,因为缺氧造成它各种功能的改变,以至不断地生长。如果能大量供给它氧气,是可以抑制它的生长或消灭它。郭林新气功治癌强调大量吸氧,这是完全合乎科学的。
实验证明:一个每天练郭林气功3-5小时的人,身体含氧量比不练郭林气功的人要高出20倍,而人体只需要吸收比平时多8倍的氧就可一直治癌、防癌;且大量吸氧,可以增强人体新陈代谢,有益强身健体、延年益寿。
2.情绪和生理功能有密切的关系。生活紧张、情绪压抑能造成免疫功能的减低,同时改变各种荷尔蒙分泌及皮肤电阻的降低,这些现象都有科学的报道。现在有些研究发现,癌症病人在发病前很多在精神上都遭到某种打击,或闷闷不乐,对生活不乐观等。如果针对这些现象,改变心理状况,则肿瘤有时会突然消失。气功治癌强调松静自然,心情平静,不受任何刺激,这是完全合乎科学的。
3.肿瘤的生物电不同于正常细胞组织。我们的工作发现肿瘤的点位总比正常低,例如肝癌,癌的部位是副电位,像电池一样,这种电位差别可以导致它能优先争取得到营养,不停地生长。如果用正电治疗,可以消灭肿瘤。练气功的人能放出一种磁场或静电,这又说明气功治癌是有科学根据的。
4.练功的癌症病人比不练功的病人,免疫球蛋白含量有明显提高,白细胞与吞噬细胞也有明显提高。由于免疫细胞活性增高,可诱发人体产生干扰素,而抑制癌细胞的分裂,使癌发展成为睡癌,吞噬细胞强大免疫力提高可使癌瘤消失。人体免疫因素在肿瘤的发生、发展、治疗、康复中有着重要作用。练郭林气功大量吸氧,动作协调,心安神静,达到心身俱佳的状态,从而能提高内分泌和免疫功能。

中医肿瘤专家郁仁存教授说:“郭林气功启发病人的主观能动性,在肿瘤的综合治疗中有利于肿瘤的治疗


肿瘤专家郁仁存:郭林气功为癌症体疗最佳选择

http://kf.cnhelpca.com 资讯来源:互联网 资讯作者:张成成 发布日期:2012年12月12日
资讯导读:几十年的实践证明,参加群体抗癌练郭林气功,会得到知识、力量、勇气、希望,会迅速渡过“否癌期”与“恐癌期”进入“平衡期”,这也是郭林气功具有强大生命力的源泉......
郭林气功是气功大师郭林根据自己练功10多年的实践,汲取古气功的精华,依据中医的经络、气血理论,并结合现代医学科学而创编出来的一套抗癌、防癌、健身气功。经过40余年、千百万人的亲身实践,证明它确是一套行之有效的"辨证施治、动静相兼、简明易学、不易出偏"的抗癌防癌、强身健体、延年益寿的优秀气功;并且得到了很多医学家、科学家的关注与肯定。1998年,郭林新气功被国家体育总局首批评审为"健身气功功法",把郭林气功列为对抗肿瘤康复行之有效的运动,并在全国推广。
坚持练习郭林气功能使放化疗的癌症患者增加食欲,增强免疫力,恢复白血球正常指标,为癌细胞转化为正常细胞创造条件等,是癌症患者恢复体能,实现康复的最好的运动方法。
北京中医医院肿瘤科主任、我国著名中医肿瘤专家郁仁存教授根据多年的医疗实践说:“郭林气功能安定病人情绪,增强病人信心,启发病人的主观能动性,它起到了一些医药起不到的作用,在肿瘤的综合治疗中,有利于肿瘤的治疗似乎已毋庸置疑。”
对于郭林气功的抗癌机理,郁仁存教授也给出了他自己的一些观点:
一、能调动病人的抗癌精神因素。人得了癌症,容易悲观失望,丧失信心,一句话:怕死。不少患者过早死亡,不完全是癌症致死的,而是被吓死的。人的情绪、精神因素与癌症的治疗效果有着密切的联系。郭林气功为广大的癌症患者提供了一个自己能够参与治疗康复的手段,由被动无望转变为积极抗争,特别是经过一段时间的练功在饮食、睡眠、体力等方面都有所改善后,就会树立气功康复的坚强信念,精神的解放是战胜疾病的首要条件。癌症患者心理状态的三个期:一是否癌期:自己不想承认得癌的现实,总是怀疑诊断是否正确,家人也不告知实情,这很容易延误了治疗的时机,后悔莫及。二是恐癌期:得知自己患癌的真实情况,立即陷入到绝望、恐惧、悔恨、悲伤心理状态,异常的心理导致了生理的紊乱,表现出食欲不振、失眠恶梦、精神恍惚。在这种状态下最容易出现复发转移、病情恶化。三是平衡期:能正确面对得癌的现实,主动学习抗癌知识,走出家门参加群体抗癌练郭林气功,能以主动抗癌的积极乐观心态与癌症抗争。心理处在前两期的患者,康复的希望是极小的。只有进入到“平衡期”的患者才能有康复的希望,平衡期的多数人能战胜癌症。几十年的实践证明,参加群体抗癌练郭林气功,会得到知识、力量、勇气、希望,会迅速渡过“否癌期”与“恐癌期”进入“平衡期”,这也是郭林气功具有强大生命力的源泉。
二、能提高人体的免疫功能。通过血液检验表明:练功的癌症病人比不练功的病人,免疫球蛋白含量有明显提高,白细胞与吞噬细胞也有明显提高。由于免疫细胞活性增强,可诱发人体产生干扰素,而抑制癌细胞的分裂,使癌发展成为睡癌,吞噬细胞强大免疫力提高可使癌瘤消失。人体免疫因素在肿瘤的发生、发展、治疗、康复中有着重要作用。练郭林气功能大量吸氧,动作协调,心安神静,达到心身具佳的状态,从而能提高内分泌和免疫功能。
三、能吐故纳新,促进新陈代谢,起到整体治疗的作用。郭林气功的调息(吸吸呼)是特殊的呼吸方法。先哲们的时代,是无法分析空气里具体的元素成分,而用自身实践与体验,悟出人的呼吸是代谢的过程,于是提出了“吐故纳新”之说,并利用吐纳导引术来强身健体。先哲们用“气”来揭示人与自然的关系,“气”为阳,是天地之清气。“米”为阴,天地之气所生的水谷。人的生存能量有赖于二气。人的饮食量是有限的,而天地之清气可大量吸之。在有树有水的环境中,练功者大量吸入大自然中清新空气,促进机体的新陈代谢。在研究中发现,正常细胞如果缺氧,就会产生变异。经检测,练郭林气功3个小时,就可吸入超过常人20倍的氧气,这可大大加强机体的新陈代谢,血液中含氧量高,血液流速加快,就有防癌治癌的作用。癌症病人的共同特点是食欲减退、身体消瘦、体重下降,出现不同的并发症。通过郭林气功的操练,普遍反映食欲好、睡眠好、体重增加,这是由于练功使肠胃蠕动加快、消化液分泌增加以及身体代谢系统的改善。而人体各系统是统一的,练郭林气功能提高人体各系统功能是毋庸置疑的。练郭林气功的患者,在放疗、化疗中各项指标大都能保持正常,而不练功的患者很多往往不能完成规范治疗。
四、“交替运动”能使患者机体全部系统的潜能得到充分的开发。现代医学研究证明,构成生命整体的每一项生理机能都有很大的潜力,而人生一世只利用了其中的一半以下。因为每个人都在一个特定的环境中习惯于某种单一的生命方式的运动模式,因此对全身不同程度的存在着偏用和偏废现象,进而导致过早地出现各种疾病。郭林气功练功者在“悟外导引”、“松静自然”的气功态中,配以“风呼吸法”的各种行步功,不但改变了行走(运动)的类型和节律,更重要的是改变了呼吸的类型和节律,这种表里相应的“交替运动”练功,使许多被手术切除部分脏器的患者通过练功能较快建立代偿或侧支系统,并使整个机体得到明显的改善,都得益于自身机体潜能的开发。肺活量是检验人体生理年龄的重要指标,练郭林气功的人肺活量明显大于同龄的非练功者。
五、能改变患者不良生活方式。精神过于紧张、身体缺乏锻炼、饮食营养过剩、服用药物过滥,这是目前社会导致疾病最重要的因素。当今社会各阶层的人都不同程度的存在缺乏体育锻炼、错误饮食、嗜好烟酒及不良心态等,错误生活方式会潜移默化地影响体质,直接使致癌物质侵害机体。练郭林气功可以逐步改变不良生活方式。以行功为主的郭林气功治癌功法,要求到野外去练,到傍水多树、空气清新的地方去练,并要求患者在治疗期间每天练功时间不少于3小时。郭林气功要求练功者避免“七情”干扰,悟外导引或“以一念代万念”加以良性诱导,以达到“恬淡虚无”的境界。郭林气功还明确规定“三个不准”即不准抽烟、不准喝酒、不准吃强烈刺激性食物,主张多吃新鲜蔬菜水果。这样患者在劳作、心理、饮食、嗜好等方面改变了不良生活方式,就可能从根本上逐渐改变患癌体质,最终战胜癌症。

2012年12月22日 星期六

How Chi Gong Works on Cancer-Fighting Cancer with Your Body's Internal Energy -Guo Lin Chi Kung

web digest: How Chi Gong Works on Cancer-Fighting Cancer with Your Body's Internal Energy 

Fighting Cancer With Your Body's Internal Energy - Guo Lin Chi Kung
[Excerpt from Paul Dong's book, Chi Gong: The Ancient Chinese Way to Health,  Paul Dong and Aristide H. Esser, 1990, Marlowe and Company] Haughtiness invites ruin; humility receives benefits.

-I Ching (The Book of Changes)

Paul Dong has a personal interest in the effect of chi gong on cancer which he explains as follows:

Because several of my relatives and friends died of cancer, I always felt particularly fearful of cancer. When I came across a Chinese book on five chi gong exercise techniques and discovered that chi gong can cure cancer, I became highly interested and started collecting materials on this subject. I also went to China in 1984 to see for myself, and found that it is definitely true that chi gong is being used to cure cancer. In the eleven years since 1979, the Chinese have cured hundreds of cancer victims through chi gong, and thousands upon thousands have used chi gong to achieve improvement and to prolong their lives. When news of this spread outside China, many medical professionals from other countries came to mainland China to observe. Members of the staff at Harvard Medical School have shown great interest in this area and have been to China twice to observe the practice. According to the article "Cancer Does Not Mean Death" by Ke Yan,1 an American oncologist (the article doesn't give the doctor's name) visited China and requested an interview with the pioneer of chi gong cancer treatment, Mrs. Guo Lin (1906-1984). Guo Lin said, "Even if I tell you about it, you wouldn't believe me. You'd better find a patient of mine to talk to." The oncologist found quite a few of her patients in the Beijing district chi gong cancer class, spent four days talking with them, and saw the facts for himself



Doctors have taken two contrasting approaches to cancer. The first approach is to consider the cancer to be an isolated condition localized at one spot in the body and to attack it directly using chemicals, surgery, or radiation. The second approach, which is gaining more and more prominence today, is to consider the condition of the whole person as the environment for the cancer, and to strengthen the body's resistance to cancer. This may come under the modem heading of psychoneuroimmunology (discussed in chapter 13) and relies on many factors, including exercise, diet, and mental imaging to combat the disease. Chi gong is part of this second approach.



The use of chi gong cancer treatment in China originated with Ms. Guo Lin, a Chinese traditional painter, mentioned above. In 1949, she was afflicted with uterine cancer and had it removed by surgery in Shanghai. The cancer recurred in 1960. This time it had metastasized to the bladder, and she had another operation in Beijing to remove part of the bladder that was cancerous. When she had another relapse, the doctors gave her six months to live. However, she did not give up hope, and in her struggle against cancer, she remembered that her grandfather, a Taoist priest, had taught her as a child to practice chi gong. She determinedly began to research and practice chi gong, hoping to recover her health in this way. After initial practice with no effect, she turned to the ancient chi gong texts willed to her by her grandfather and created her own exercise schedule. She practiced diligently for two hours every day, and in half a year her cancer subsided. She was strongly convinced of chi gong's ability to cure diseases, and in 1970 started giving lessons in what she called New Chi Gong Therapy. According to Cyrus Lee, Master Guo's therapy is not based on the external energy (wei chi) of others, but upon the inner energy (nei chi) of the patient (for these distinctions, review chapter 1, "Special Section on Chi"). Her therapy combines "active and passive exercises in three stages: relaxation (sung jing), concentration (yi lian), and breathing (tiao hsi)."2



By 1977 Master Guo had achieved spectacular results and proclaimed publicly that chi gong can cure cancer. Cancer victims from all over immediately streamed into Beijing to take part in the chi gong cancer therapy class she had organized. Each day three hundred to four hundred people studied chi gong techniques for cancer treatment with her. Until her death in 1984 she worked tirelessly, curing hundreds of cancer patients, while easing the pain and prolonging the lives of thousands more. Mrs. Wong Chung-siu, a student of Guo Lin's currently living in Fremont, California, told Paul Dong that Guo Lin's pinnacle of success came in 1982. Aided by nine assistants she had trained, Guo Lin held nine cancer classes of seventy students each, meeting three times a day. With her nine assistants to help her, she was able over the next two years to travel all over China to twenty provincial capitals to teach and lecture at the request of many local health care and medical departments, and she became a national celebrity before her death in 1984 (twenty years after her life had been given up by Western medicine).



Because Guo Lin had demonstrated that her chi gong techniques were able to cure cancer, people trained in other styles of chi gong were eager to see if they could achieve the same results. Among these other styles, quiet gong and movement gong also demonstrated the same ability to achieve cures or alleviation of cancer. Paul Dong judges from the Chinese literature that movement gong is more effective in curing cancer. The technique used by Guo Lin combines both movement chi gong and meditation chi gong (movement first and quiet gong afterward).



One type of movement gong is Flying Crane, which is quite popular in China. According to reports, it has cured many cancer patients. In a journal Qi Gong of the flying Crane, published in Beijing, an article "Fight Cancer with the True Qi", written by Xie Hau,3 states that the Beijing Flying Crane Club invited eleven cancer victims to participate in an experiment. After three months of practicing chi gong, they showed varying degrees of improvement. Among them, Li Shan-cheng showed the most notable effects. Li, fifty-nine years old at the time, had cancer of the esophagus and was unable to eat; in fact, he couldn't even swallow water. He was emaciated. Then he watched a report on TV about chi gong curing cancer and joined a Flying Crane therapy class. After practicing chi gong for ten days, he had a check-up and discovered that his tumor had become smaller, and he was able to eat again. With this encouragement, he practiced chi gong an hour at a time, four times a day. After three months, he had made a complete recovery and went back to work as usual. He credited chi gong with saving his life.



In Hebei province's Tianjin University, the chi gong class for the fourth quarter of 1983 included fifteen cancer victims (the categories were cancer of the liver, the stomach, the mammary gland, and the rectum). After six months to a year of practicing chi gong, not one of them had died. Their conditions showed various levels of improvement, and all of the patients experienced the triple benefit of eating, sleeping, and feeling well. They were also firm in their conviction that "to exercise right is to survive." The styles of chi gong that they practiced were Standing-On-Stake and meditation gong, which will be described in chapters 8 and 12 respectively.



All kinds of cases regarding the cure of cancer with different styles of chi gong are frequently reported in chi gong magazines. The conclusion may be that no matter what chi gong style is used, it is possible to cure cancer. The simple truth is that every style of chi gong adheres to three principles: (a) achieving a state of tranquility, (b) relaxation and release of tension, (c) commitment and development of willpower. And each of these principles is important in one's fight against cancer. In addition, we think that the reason Guo Lin's chi gong was especially effective is because she had her patients train in groups. Group practice is the best way to arouse interest and bring good cheer. Interest helps one concentrate on doing the chi gong exercises, and cheerfulness produces a beneficial effect on the organism. As the first step in curing cancer, Guo Lin had the patients come together as a group and swear an oath to resist cancer, for the purpose of increasing their fighting spirit. Willpower was applied as a healing technique. In a large group of patients (Guo Lin's cancer therapy groups usually consisted of seventy people), there would be one or two of a more sensitive disposition, achieving the beneficial effects of chi gong earlier than the others. As soon as one or two patients had shown good results, the rest of the patients would be encouraged to have greater confidence, and as we know, a positive attitude plays a role in curing disease. Also, if people practice chi gong exercises alone and then fail to achieve results, they are more likely to become discouraged.



One reason for the negative impact of failure acknowledged in Western medicine is that the feeling of helplessness appears to suppress the immune system's ability to resist tumor development.4 On the other hand, fostering positive images appears to strengthen immunological competence.5 Lawrence Leshan has pointed to psychological factors in cancer causation since the fifties.6 Specific methods to fight cancer successfully with visualization techniques were introduced in the U.S. by Carl Simonton, M.D., in the early seventies. 7 Thus there are reasons to think that a positive attitude improves and negative thoughts decrease the immune mechanism's ability to defend the body.



Much, but not all of chi gong's effect is based on entering a state of meditation. In meditation, there are no distractions, depressing thoughts, or worries. The body's functions are able to return to normal by relaxation, which is the key to balancing the circulation of the chi and the blood. In Chinese traditional medical theory, stimulating the circulation of the chi and blood is the main healing method. Additionally, a sense of happiness is achieved in meditation, and that is a major wellspring of increased confidence and fighting spirit.



The several effects described above are important mechanisms for treating any disease. As the term psychoneuroimmunology implies, these mechanisms include both psychological and physiological elements. As we know, the psychological and the physiological aspects operate in interdependent ways. From the physiological point of view, the Shanghai Institute of Medical Science's Institute for the Combined Use of Chinese and Western Medicine has conducted a study on the effects of chi gong and tai ji chuan on elderly people's endocrine systems (the pituitary, thyroid, and sex glands). They invited forty-seven elderly people of the same age, sixty-six years old, to perform chi gong exercises regularly. After doing this for several weeks, the capabilities of their pituitary, thyroid, and sex glands were shown to have increased. This strengthening and stabilizing of the endocrine system can have a beneficial regulating effect on the vigor of the whole body's metabolism.



This is not to suggest that we understand the extent of chi gong's effects on cancer. We do know that practicing chi gong exercises influences many of the body's mechanisms. For instance, it not only raises the capabilities of the endocrine system, it also has a regulating effect on cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). These two substances play a vital bioenergetic role in phosphorylation, which is the key to respiration and thus the oxygen provision for all of the body's cells. As we will review below, oxygen prevents cancer growth. In addition, cyclic AMP is familiar as an intracellular signal transforming stimuli from outside the cell into a response by the cell, and therefore could play an important role in our immune system.



In a recent study, Wang Chong-xing and collaborators at the Shanghai Institute of Hypertension reported at a world conference on chi gong on improvement in the ratio of cAMP/cGMP within one year of chi gong practice.8 It is claimed that the concentration and physiological stability (expressed in a stable ratio) of these two enzyme messengers play major roles in the normal regulation and maintenance of health. It is assumed that cancer cells thrive when the blood cAMP content is low. Ding Shen and other investigators, reporting at the same world conference, have found that the practice of chi gong, among other beneficial effects, increases the cAMP content of the blood which may explain part of chi gong's effect on cancer.



Another important factor in cancer growth is whether or not the body's oxygen content is sufficient. Beijing's Qi Gong and Cancer Research Unit has conducted many experiments on this aspect. When the body is deficient in oxygen, cancer cells grow; and when the body is rich in oxygen, cancer cells die. One explanation for the sense of serenity produced by entering a state of deep meditation through chi gong is the increase in the absorption of oxygen. In ancient China, Taoist priests chose to meditate underneath the pine tree because they had discovered that the pine exudes the greatest amount of oxygen.



The above points are possible explanations by modem science of several mechanisms by which chi gong cures cancer. From the point of view of Chinese traditional medicine, chi gong has the functions of activating the body's vital forces (chi), strengthening the blood's circulation, balancing the yin and the yang, stimulating the conductivity of the meridians and improving the psychological state. Chinese medical theory emphasizes that chi is the driving force of life. The body's health is determined by the strength or weakness of its chi. As soon as the chi is weakened, the "blood is clogged," the yin and yang lose their balance, and disease will result. Research by the Bei Dai He Chi Gong Clinic indicates that after doing a chi gong exercise for a certain period of time (we judge this to be approximately forty minutes), the body's internal regional blood volume increases by 30 percent and the body temperature rises two to three degrees Celsius. For the Chinese, these facts demonstrate the way that chi gong acts to clear the meridians-unclog the blood-and moderate the chi and blood. In other words, when the chi and the blood are flowing freely, the body will maintain physiological balance (the balance of yin and yang), and diseases will disappear of themselves.



In recent years, scientists and medical specialists have been turning their attention to the immune system for the purpose of fighting disease. China took up this point more than two thousand years ago. As The Emperor's Classic state in "Questions and Answers": "Be imperturbable and the true chi will come to you; concentrate the inner spirit and well-being follows." This signifies that if the body's energy is at its full level, it will not sicken. Chi gong exercises bring out and mobilize the body's latent strength, raise the body's energy level, and activate the cells of the immune system, causing a feeling of well-being.



Many studies have demonstrated that people suffering from emotional damage, tension, a low level of energy, depression, and irritability have a markedly higher rate of cancer occurrence. Through the practice of chi gong, especially when reaching the level of the deep meditative state, a whole set of beneficial psychological and spiritual conditions emerge, including emotional well-being, spiritual happiness, stability of mood, and complete relaxation of the body. This directly inspires the patient's confidence of defeating cancer, as well as benefiting the body's dynamic balance, and as a consequence makes a positive contribution to the healing and comfort of the body.



Besides one's own practice of chi gong, another method of treating cancer is through the use of a chi gong expert who can provide relief by transmitting external chi from his body to that of the patient, thereby purportedly killing cancer cells. Dr. Feng Li-da, vice-president, General Hospital of the Chinese Navy, Beijing, and professor of immunology, Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has done many experiments in this area. She reported that by transmitting external chi for one minute, a chi gong expert can destroy 90 percent of colon and dysentery bacilli, and in ten minutes 60 percent of a flu virus. In sixty minutes, the rate of destroyed uterine cancer cells is also around 60 percent, and that of destroyed gastric cancer cells 25 percent. A twenty-gram tumor on a mouse disappeared within a five-week period of external chi treatment. A few of the experiments referred to above were reported in the following press release of November 28,1983, by the New China (Xinhua) News Agency:



A meeting for the evaluation and demonstration of the action of chi gong on certain bacteria had recently been held, presided over by Feng, Li Da, deputy superintendent of the Navy General Hospital and director of the Immunology Research Division. Test tubes filled respectively with coliform bacillus and dysentery bacteria, golden and white staphylococcus, and virus were handed over one by one to a chi gong master, who held each of the tubes firmly in his hand for a minute to release external energy (chi) at it. A projector displayed the image of each experimental sample on a screen. Under an electronic microscope, the bacteria were shown to be expanding, cracking, and dissolving, being killed by chi gong. From the immunological standpoint, Feng has thus demonstrated that chi energy is an objective reality. Furthermore, she has confirmed that chi gong is effective to a certain degree in treating B-hepatitis. There is also encouraging preliminary evidence of the therapeutic effect of chi gong with respect to the treatment of guinea pigs suffering from ascites ( an accumulation of fluid in the abdomen) caused by cancer. Dr. Feng declared that in mainland China chi gong has now advanced from the prescientific phase to a new epoch in which modern methods are employed in its study. The study of chi gong has been conducive to the development of immunology and other sciences.



Another example: A Japanese cancer victim, Ansei Shonin, who had a tumor in the lower part of his head, deeply imbedded in his nasal cavity. Made a special trip from Japan to Beijing's General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army to undergo external chi treatment. A chi gong expert performed twelve days of external chi treatment, and as a result Ansei Shonin's tumor, as large as an egg, shrunk, and his pain was distinctly eased.



Why external chi works toward strengthening of the cells and the immune responses of the body in the case of healing a disease, and appears to kill or otherwise interrupt and reverse the growth of cells (or bacteria) in the case of cancer (or the influencing of bacterial cultures) is not known. To the best of our knowledge, it is due to the different intent of the qi gong master. This may be similar to visualization or imaging therapy, as applied in Western alternative medical approaches. As part of the therapy, the determination is made in advance whether the patient will visualize growth of healthy or destruction of cancerous cells in his or her own body.



In conclusion, then, cancer victims apparently can achieve effective treatment by practicing chi gong as shown by Master Guo. But one might suggest that if the patient is too weak or for other reasons unable to practice chi gong regularly and vigorously, external chi should be tried as a cure or used as a supplement to chi gong. Finally, as described in the previous chapter regarding practices in the Bei Da Hei Clinic, combinations of "internal" and "external" chi with dietetic therapy and Western medical science may all be attempted when looking for a cure for cancer.



Notes



1. Ke Yan, "Cancer Does Not Mean Death," Beijing Literature, July 1982, 43.



2. Cyrus Lee, "Qi Gong (Breath Exercise) and Its Major Models," Chinese Cukure 24 (September1984): 71-79. The description was Guoted by Prof. Lee from Guo Lin's book Hsin Qigong Liao Fa (Hofei: Science and Technology Press, 1980), 4.



3. Xie Hua, "Fight Cancer with the True Qi," Qi Gong of the Flying Crane, Beijing, n.d. 4. See for example, M. Visintainer et al. in Science 216 (1982): 437-40.



5. See for example, P Lansky in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 23 (1982): 496- 503.



6. See for example, Lawrence Leshan, You Can Fight for Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer (New York: Evans, 1977).



7. O.C. Simonton et al., Getting Well Again (Los Angeles: J. P Tarcher, 1978). 8. Wang Chong-xing et al. in First World Conference for Academic Exchange of Medical Qi Gong, 1988, 85.



Disclaimer: This sort of energy exercise can be used as an addition to any cancer recovery program. But it in no way should be used to replace any cancer therapy prescribed by your physician. We offer no explicit nor implicit opinion on the effectiveness of practicing Guo Lin Chi Kung for those with cancer. It is just our wish to provide information on this so that those interested can have a resource for learning this style.