Approved For Release 2001 Cl#,- DP96-00792ROO0200100001-4 V A FIRSTHAND ENCOUNTER ,VATH THE MYSTERY IGONG BY ELIZABETH ROWE The orthopedic doctor picked up my left foot and examined it closely. The lump on top ofthe instep looked twice as big under his scrutiny as it had that morning. Without warning, he dropped my foot onto the table. It hit with a dull thud. "Calcium deposit. Surgery," he said, with an economy of words that would "have made Western Union proud. "Half an hour in the office and six weeks on crutches. A hundred dol- lars." I swallowed hard. Not at the money or the surgery, but at the recovery time. "Six weeks on crutches just for this?" I asked incredulously, pointing at the chicken's egg on my foot. 'Me doctor frowned, a thin array of lines appearing on his tanned forehead. He nodded and closed my folder, signaling that our therapeutic time together was over. "You can schedule the surgery with the nurse on the way out," he said as he gave me a cool, dry handshake. I left his office and the building weighing my options. Having .recently taken a nursing position on an acute-care psychiatric unit, I knew that I wouldn't last long hobbling around the unit on crutches trying to keep up with my very mobile patients. I needed an alternative, but with all my nursing training my roots in traditional Western medicine ran deep. The effective use of other healing methods however, was not unknown to me. On a trip to China when I was eighteen, I was shown pictures of operating theaters in which heart surgery was conducted under the "anesthesia" of acupuncture. While the procedure looked barbaric to me at the time, lopping off this lump on my foot with- out so much as a question as to why it had appeared seemed barbaric to me now. JANuARY'AMMOU For Release 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0200100001-4 65 Elizabeth Rowe, afiormer nurse, is a fteelance writer living in Palmyra, New York. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : Several months prior to the development of my calcium deposit, I had heard about a Chinese woman in Rochester, New York, who had treated several acquaintances of mine for ail- ments ranging from a weak back to asthma. I called her and set up an appointment. Once a week for the next eight weeks, I underwent a fifteen-minute therapy consisting of light touch at different points on my body, particularly my foot. The treatment-performed through my clothes-resem- bled acupuncture without the needles. By the last session, the lump was gone. Thus was I introduced to T@ qigong, another controversial healing phenomenon from the East making its way slow- ly to the West, bringing with it new challenges to the Western model of disease. Like acupuncture before it qigong has been receive@ with suspicion by many West- ern scientists and doctors. It's not hard to see why. N ORDER to understand qigong, one must first understand the Chinese concept of qi, and this is near t ly impossible for those no raised speaking Chinese and living in that culture. The word qi (pronounced chee" and spelled "chi" in the Wade Giles system Of translation). does not have a clear English equivalent, though it is often referred to as "vital force," "life energy," "universal force," or "unseen life force." Good health occurs when this energy is properly flowing through the body. In 77te Web That Has No Weaver: Undeystanding Chi- nese Medicine, author Ted J. Kaptchuk, O.M.D., suggests that qi can be thought of as "matter on the verge of becoming energy, or ener gy at the point of materializing. [Q]i is perceived function ally-by what it does." Such a definition, however, does little to satisfy the Western mind. At one level, qigong is prac- ticed as a yogalike discipline of breathing exercises and pos- tures learned by individuals to improve their own balance of qi. In this way it resembles tai chi, and, like that graceful martial art, it is widely practiced throughout China and said to have a revitalizing effect. (It is believed to have originated in 2500 B.C. as a ritual dance performed to ward off muscle ailments and skin diseases.) More intriguing, however, are the qigong practitioners who have mastered their control of qi and report- (continued on Page 104) C A-RDP96-00792ROO0200100001-4 Bonnie Kwnin photos QIGONG IN CHINA TURNING ON TO THE'HEALING FORCE.' "I'm like a radio station putting out a signal, and patients are like radios," explains Ki Xin Guo, M.D., a traditional physician in the Qigong Research Depart- ment at Beijines Xi Yuan Hospital. In these photographs, taken last year during a group treatment session in Beijing, M works with a patient suffering from ulcers in his esophagus. (Other patients' ailments ranged from steep disorders to brain tumors.) Ki would spend only a minute or so with each patient, moving from one to the next, seemingly in a trance. Before each patient, he would take a position similar to a martial arts stance, his arms extended and hands undulating, his body swaying as he shifted his weight from front foot to back. Then, as if directing ener- gy through his outstretched arms, he would point his fingers in the general vicinity of acupuncture points on the body and lunge forward, He would never physically touch the patient. Directed toward an observer, the doctor's hand actions produced a feeling of dis- equilibrium and the distinct sen- sation of some energy force. These brief sessions of so-called external qigong were comple- mented daily by early- morning exercises performed out- qigong doors by the patients themselves. "By practicing daily exercises," Ki explains, "they'turn on'or become receptive to my healing force." -Sally Swope DURNAL iANuAPMv*,d9For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0200100001-4 67 4 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0200100001-4 IN GOOD HANDS (continuedfrom page 67) edly are able to use the vital energy at another, higher level. And this is where qigong smacks headlong into Western science. These qigong masters, using powers that seem to rival telekinesis, reportedly are able to send the life force out of their bodies to heal others. To the observer, they seem to be merely performing certain hand move- ments near their patients or perhaps gen- tly touching them at key points on the body. But through this ancient practice the qigong masters have reportedly treated ailments ranging from cardiac Tgeles AMANA diseases to neurological disorders to cancer. In a 1986 article for The New York Times, reporter Edward A- Gargan described a qigong master's treatment of a paralyzed patient in Beijing: ,Slowly at first, as if plumping an invis- ible pillow, the doctor's hands explored the air before him. Gradually they began a silent minuet, turning, tumbling, twist- ing. Now, as if shaping a clump of clay, his hands pounded, then undulated across an invisible surface. On a table before him, the legs of a prone patient, his eyes closed, rose slowly, first one, then the other, as if in response to the doctor's motions. For fifteen minutes, like limbs of a string puppet, the patient's 0M a ew N Age is dedicated to publishing legendary works from past cen- turies, as well as new books from the cutting edge of'coincin- porary thought. From Buddhism to feminism, from psychology to paranormal experience, Arkana covers the Nvidcst raliLyc of, New Age subjects-and features the most respected autfiors in every area. 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Along the meridians are points that can be manipulated to regulate the flowing qi, which in turn influences the functioning of the patient's major organ systems. But whereas the acupuncturist uses needles at these points to influence the patient's flow of qi, the qigong masters say they rely upon only the powers of a united mind and body. "The qi is like body electricity," explains Honolulu qigong practitioner Lily Siou, author of Ch'i Kung: The Art of Mastering the Unseen Life Force. "I send energy and they receive it." Siou, in fact, says she can fill a room @vith qi and thereby affect two or three patients at a time. Sonia Young, the qigong practitioner I visited in Rochester for my deformed foot, explains that she penetrates the body with qi and then "reads" the return- ing qi for information on how the patient's systems are functioning. In her fifteen- to thirty-minute treatments, Young uses her hands, particularly the fleshy portion at the base of the palm, to "impart the qi energy." During my ses- sions, I experienced a sensation similar to that of a small electric vibrator being applied to my skin; other clients said they felt similar sensations. Like other alternative treatments, qigong is more effective on some disor- ders than others, Young says. And, despite the perceived antipathy between ancient and modern medical practices, Young is a proponent of Western medicine and sees the two complement- ing one another. "I am definitely not against Western medicine," she says. "You should take advantage of what it offers. Many times I say to clients, Take the phone right now and call your doc- tor.' Often, it is combining qigong with Western medicine that can give you the est cai Others purporting to be qigong mas- ters are less humble, however, and the problems for consumers trying to make sense of the field promise to get worse. The potential for fraud is particularly troublesome to those who take qigong seriously-both researchers and practi- tioners. "I am quite irritated with a lot of people in the so-called qigong field and other fields who indiscriminately say, 'I can cure that, yes,' " says Young. "It makes me mad. I don't believe them." '92ROO0200100001-4 NEW AGE JOURNAL Approved For Releas 7: CIA-RDP96-00 0100001-4 One researcher who has the study of qigong. N been encour- "If qi can be mea- s ' TRIGUING as qigong appears be , research on the aging jist such a cross-culturalsured and harnessed subject is explo- using scientific t o A . radon is David Eisenberg,methods," he noted in u a physician at a recent speech to s t beginning in the West. In j China, however, it has Beth Israel Hospital qigong researchers in been under way in Boston and Beijing, "then for almost fifteen years.instructor in medicine modern medical science According to the at Harvard will likely bene- Beijing Review, the Medical School. Eisenbergfit from this merger country has at least was intro- of ancient and mod- eight magazines devotedduced to qigong in the ern human talent." to qigong late '70s while an research, as well as exchange student at the Satisfying all the scientific ten national qigong Beijing College skeptics, scientific research of Traditional Chinese however, will prove associations and Medicine, an difficult, particularly many similar local groups.'Ibroughexperience he later wrotein light of the seemingly their about in paranormal experiments, the ChineseEncounters With Qi: Exploringnature of qigong. And have found Chinese even those that qigong has applicationsMedicine [See New Age researchers sympathetic beyond journal, to the field medicine, according January/February 1987]. seem to differ as to to the Review: It has Not knowing proper methodology been used by athletes whether what he witnessedfor exploring it. Take, to loosen muscles, in China for example, a enhance circulation, were cleverly forged study recently presented and improve train- tricks or demon- at the ing; by students to strations of an astoundingAmerican Association improve concentra- bodily force, for the tion and memory; and Eisenberg urges the meticulousAdvancement of Science by the military to applica- and at the improve combat ability.tion of the scientific International Bioenergetics laws of inquiry to Medicine As for the practice's health effects, a study by Yan Xuanzou, a professor at the Colle e of Traditional Chinese Beijin g g Medicine, found that people who prac- ticed internal qigong-visualization and breathing exercises-for forty minutes had increased levels of IGA (an immunoglobulin extracted from saliva) and lysozyme activity (lysozyme is an enzyme that destroys the cell walls of bacteria). These two indicators of immune system response did not change in the subjects who simply sat quietly or those who exercised without any medita- tive component. Even the more elusive external qigong has been studied in China. One experi- ment by Feng Li Da, of the Beijing Immunology Research Center, found that a single qigong treatment-directed by a master at tissue . . . . . .- cultures-could kill 30.7 percent of cervical cancer cells and 25 percent of stomach cancer cells. In a second study, mice macrophages---cells that destroy bacteria-were found to have a significant increase in bacteria- destroying activity after a ten-minute treatment by a qigong master. Such studies, notes Daniel Brown, chief psychologist at the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, use the same methods we do to study the immune response: tissue cultures, animals, and humans. 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Ulsiiigy a specially (1(,signcd device hooked to a computer, the subject's arm 111LIsclu clidurallce Was mea-ured before itiid aftur the practitioner performed a (ligong immetiver designed to either strengthen or weaken the subject. With 11 very few exceptions," Sancier reports, the subjects demonstrated "statistically significant" increases in muscle en- durance after the strengthening mancu- ver, and decreases in endurance after the weakening maneuver. Sancier claims the results provide evidence that the mind-in this case, that of the qigong master-can affect the body energy. Sancier's study was blind-the sub- jects did not know the nature of the maneuvers nor the purpose of the lest. But, for some observers, even those pre- cautious are not enough. "A number of biases can affect results, and witho,it a control group you can't say the results AV 1--_ TM _PPIRIT Pkgs@N-Ts TM "I"APHRODITE, THE SPIRIT A NEW AGE CONCEPT IN SELF EMPOWERMENT EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN. 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With scientific vali- dation, the practice could someday have applications as widespread as those of acupuncture-which today is used to treat everything from chronic pain to crack addiction. Notes Michael Maliszewski, director of the behavioral medicine department at the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago: 'We're jLI1,t QIGONG UNITED Is it the of the hough cligong therapy may seem far too esoteric to T appeal to a mainstream Western public, a number of observers compare its present posi- tion to that of acupuncture fifteen years ago. The latter, once-dismissed healing art now has more than five thousand certified practitioners nationwide, and several insurance companies now reimburse patients for treatments. Research that would help establish a similar credibility for qigong has been slow in getting under way in the United States, but there is growing interest in studying the phenomenon. "The current qigong research comes from a network of about twen- ty to thirty individuals within institu- tions nationwide, rather than a net- work of institutions supporting qigong research," explains William C. Gough, founder of the ten-year-old Foundation for Mind-Being Research, in Los Altos, California, which serves as one of the clearing- houses for qigong research. One group that has been actively promot- ing further US interest in gigong is the Wash i ngto n-b ased US-China 0200100004-4--- Nl,'W AG E prove For Release 20OTM3/07 : CIA-RDP96-007?2ROO0200100001-4 scratching the surface." told her she would probably not talk, someone I knew who had had half walk, read, speak, or write again. I removed and was seeing a woman s n'TURNED OU17, Sonia Young's apparent treatment of my calcium deposit was far from unusual. Her A other clients had similar success stories: In 1975, a woman I'll call Anne, a gradu- ate student and mother of four, nearly died in a car accident. Her right ankle, two cervical vertebrae, pelvis, knees, and ribs were crushed; her trachea transect- ed, her vocal cords severed, her spleen ruptured, her liver and fight kidney dam- aged, and her right leg broken. According to Anne, the physicians who at first thought she wouldn't live later INTHE STATES acupuncture ,90s? Peoples Friendship Association, which led its first official qigong research exchange to China in 1983 and sent a public qigong study tour to China last March. This year the association plans to sponsor in China the first world conference on martial arts and qigong. Also spreading the word about gigong is the newly established Qigong Institute, a division of the sixteen-year-old East-West Academy of Healing Arts, in San Francisco. The institute-which has presented papers on its qigong research before such prestigious groups as the American Association for the Advancement of Science-has sched- uled trips to China to explore qigong research and practice, and plans to sponsor the US visits of several qigoiig masters. --Sally Swope For more information, contact the Foundation for Mind-Being Research, (415) 941-7462,- the US-China Peoples Friendship Association---, (,2_0,'2'-)-29641,4_7, or the Qigong jnititute@ East-West Academy of Healing Arts, 450 Sutter St., Suite 916, San Francisco, CA 94108, (415) 788- 2227 or 323-1221. A seven-month hospital stay yielded significant gains, and Anne returned home to continue a long road to recov- ery. But in 1984 she began to wrestle with chronic respiratory problems. Because of the fixed narrow opening of her tra- chea, the result of its being cut in two, fluid collected in Anne's lungs, inviting infection. She found herself more and more dependent on the antibiotics that were working less and less effectively. "In spring 1987, 1 got very bad again," Anne says. "I couldn't even make it to the bathroom. That was when I called a lung for treatment." 'niat woman was Young,'whoin Anne saw three times a week for several weeks, then twice a week for about six months. Her lungs cleared tip, and she stopped taking antibiotics. *In 1988, writer-artist Katherine Denison went to see Young for one of her then infrequent visits to the qigong therapist. "She stated a concern for weakness in my right side," says Denison, remcmbej@ ing the session. "I assumed it was mus- cular, but Sonia said it was the nerves. I C A _N C E R? Before You Undergo Any Treatment, Read My Storv. -.7 - You Do Have Choices. "InDecember, 1982, Iwas diagnosed as ha@,iiig brcast c@inccr.:V ,t c r go i it,, through the tratritia of a mastectoiny, the doctors told mc dut 7 out of I Of my lymph nodes were infected. I'licir i-ccoinnicn(lation \\xs @1 60 week program of chemotherapy. I'm sure you can iniagine iny terror,.it this diogilosis, and.vct, at the Same time, I was determined to find out what othcr ChOiCeS Of ti-CAMC11t I had AS a patient, Fortunately, a friend had heard of the jimovativc work bein't, donc atTlic Livingston Medical Center in San DiCgO.AftCl- COIISL11611,11' "Vith L1161- Staff" I began initial treatment which lastc(l two weeks. It consisted of the Inimu-Shield T"I prograill of vaccilles, ZI sj)ccial dict to build up irly immune system and I)SVChOlOgIC',11 COLHISClill" th@lt @'@IVC 111C the inner courage to fight and win the battle with c,,mccr. I have been free of cancer for 7 years 11OW, feel wondcrful @inol lead a full, active life. During this time I have maintained the heidth approoch I learned through the Intinu-ShieldTM program and return toThe Livingston 1\/Ie(llc 11 Center each year for follow up. NI..y personal physiclon does independent medical tests which confirm mv fi-cedom f1,0111 G11 IccF. I consented to tell my story that it iiwy reich otlici s in the same situ- ation. To tell you there is a choice." I lie Livingston Medical Center CALL TOLL FREE 1(800) 677-6800 3232 Duke Street 0 San Diego, CA 92110 (619) 224-3 i 1 -5 T1je Medical Tecbnology of t1ye 21st Cent-my )or Release 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0200100001-4 107 Matiann Blais Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0200100001-4 X @V /f hen. I Was a medical student in the early '80s, terms of belief but in terms of "animal magnetism." It is own as psychoneurvimmunology. nunolo!, If k, and ite, skin temperature, mind canadsio ,ine, a related d even heard a's known id @ to affect, wfiir instance, un from'a ye@lls a lighted rature in while the lood press4rel-'an -rved:, yojis who are able, to slow their In October 1988 1 had the opportunity to attend the First'. king to;allmosi, zero;International Conference for the in some expqri- Academic Exchange of- @rktecl_in.Westerrk Medical Qigong, in Beijing. Many literature-yogis scientific, papers were .s for-," many as sevenpresented on different types ofqigo days have'sur- ,ng research. 'Much of it, trano; None of these was clinical or anecdotal, and phenomena is, thus explairiaW with hyptki62 n phyAcian with even sis arguments. Some of it, though., a basic knowl- was. not; it generated data .)soman ,cs. that might require an expansion of scienti-&,,thinking. Orke, @f i' to the satrke@ such study involved placing rats category, as intoa.tallk, @wat&r with 9 S_,kl of igo , -Many of these phenomenacan-of cines;,, their rear legs bound, then removingthern at the point ")nt t H4rvard',,`piofessor exhaustion.. [By citing this expert Herbert'Benson, en,.we,are@notcondoning, s, t e- re avation -:'what could be construed as laborator responsei" But in@@'_ y cruelty. The Editors.] [edele 4uffhe bodyVener-gyOne group of rats received an external being 4i Igong treatment, lik, Po' 0. -c i) is,:so@ermitwd,moved from the tan @!t Pr-om a qigong master upon being@re` h k ' ` in Adm6@is@,@ The rats werethen killed. Double-blind kid electron microscop- ihatter gA@' bi: ney 'h, le e _mg-9 f @: wounds.ic examination of the muscle fibers Wheria qigong in' the rats' I demon@ egs er qti @We" -'strated less muscle damage in the,grou @that, received the.@ upuncture points on a p mo __aq ' ' _effc6t_s_,, s that did not receive the,treatment. :hett'6 .- qigong than in the ra:t c_o m para6l 6 - to;.-ihose of`_'. e : ` ' . _ may e ac i-ey Even if this putative projcction,,of energy is unexplained, 'ou "Anterpret"'such, by Western science, qigong rema phenomena as - ris at, the, very least an ' _, , e 'r ordinarily sophisticated system r&- of self- regulation, -T -"would, assei no ener- e o r w ey is )f physi@ Western physicians-and Western platients-shoutdl, hot my',6 Anif leflik-6 overlook its potential. are due, rather, to d fili6-, The, irony in this -view is that ' th@ forefather!'of Philip S. Lansky is a general practitioner mod- based in Iowa Gty,, (17314-18 1 5il - his observations, not wbo specializes in ckusical homeopatby, in and Chinese medicine, explainedi OV%Aof lf%1310%'7 . r%1A mr%m#%#% ar6cuhim was supplementedMesmer's language, not the terminology by of modern psychia- cal-acupuricture, try,, that comes closest to the hypnosis, and Chinese view of qi as a, vital te- multidisciplinaryenergy circulating in the human field that was body. Essentially, ...There is no event observed in medical qigong that could extends what has not be explained in purely hypnotic been learned terms, including the _regul ation-that shrinking of tumors-thanks to psychoneuroinimunology the mind can and brain waves-by and the well-known imagery work with cancer. patients pio- aflect our immune neered by 0. Carl Simonton, M.D., system. (Getting,,Well Again) e and others. Nevertheless, if we fl, [d, was emergingconsider only what is univer- as a way sally accepted in Western physiology,, there -are plenty of 'of _qigong, I was obvious sources of magnetic energy already famil- in the human body. For in-Western medicine instance, we know that the flow about the of electrons generates a th e-body. A person magnetic field. The flow of electrical under hyp- impulses in the nerve, has-been known to trunks, then, can be seen as analogous suffer a to electricity flowing pencil eraser that through a wire. This could cause he or she has the kind of electromag- cigarette. Through netism found in an electromagnet biofeed- formed by the flow of 'one band can be current through steel wires, and lowered more the same could be said of the flow of electrons generated th by blood moving through _t6mp Iekature of e other hand eicep.tional labile the arteries. We can be pretty entity, sure. that magnetism is gener- ly clthation'&- during ated by our physiology-but beyond e course of a that, scientific expla-, th n4"Icircurnstances nations of qigong remain unsatisfactory. vary. Western' NF.'WA(;E'J()LJRNAL