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     SEQUENCE NR: CS390637813 USER- ID: 09856-92APR28/11.20.08/AOI
     TITLE: THE QIGONG ACUPOINT METHOD OF TREATING DISEASE
     DOC REF: CHINA TODAY (BEIJING) (CHTOE), 90, VOL 39, NR 1, 57-59
     INF CTY: PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA (CH)
     INF DATE: 9001
     COSATI: BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES (06)
     CLASSIF: UNCLASSIFIED
     RELEASE: NONE (XX)
     TEXT: EXTRACT. DOCUMENT CONTAINS 3 PHOTOS.
     QIGONG HAS A HISTORY OF MORE THAN 2,000 YEARS THE EARLIEST BOOK ON
     CHINESE MEDICINE, THE @fELLOW EMPEROR'S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE,
     DESCRIBES THE THEORY OF QIGONG IN DETAIL: ONE'S QI, OR VITAL ENERGY,
     TOGETHER WITH ONE'S BLOOD CIRCULATION AND ESSENCE, ARE THE
     FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF HUMAN LIFE AND ACTIVITY. THE BODY IS CRISS
     CROSSED BY A NETWORK OF CHANNELS CONTAINING VITAL ENERGY WHICH
     CONNECT THE ORGANS WITH THE FOUR LIMBS, AND IT IS THIS NETWORK THAT
     MAKES THE BODY A UNIFIED WHOLE. DISEASES COME ABOUT WHEN THE
     FUNCTIONING OF THE NETWORK GOES WRONG AND ONE'S EXTERIOR IS NO
     LONGER IN HARMONY WITH ONE'S INTERIOR. LIU HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CURE
     CERTAIN DISEASES MERELY BY LIGHTLY PRESSING OR TAPPING THE PATIENT'S
     ACUPOINTS WITH HIS FINGERS. WITH MY METHOD, HE EXPLAINS, I COMBINE
     QIGONG AND MANIPULATION OF THE ACUPOINTS. I CHOSSE THE ACUPOINTS ON
     THE NETWORK WHERE SOMETHING IS OBVIOUSLY WRONG; I PRESS THEM TO
     AROUSE THE QI AND THEN I USE QIGONG TO OPEN UP THE ENTIRE NETWORK.
     THIS STIMULATES BLOOD CIRCULATION AND GETS THE QI GOING AT A NORMAL
     RATE ONCE MORE. IN THE EVENT OF ILLNESS, THE QI IS BLOCKED OFF AT
     VARIOUS ACUPOINTS AND THE GENERAL RHYTHMIC BALANCE OF THE BODY IS
     THROWN OFF. WITH THE UP BLOCKING OF THE ACUPOINTS THROUGH A
     COMBINATION OF PRESSING AND QIGONG, RECOVERY MUST FOLLOW. THIS, HE
     SAYS, IS THE BASIS ON WHICH HIS METHOD IS FOUNDED.
     PFN INFORMATION: PART 001
     PERSON: LIU, HENGSHUN
     PERS CTY: PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA (CH)
     PERSDATA: PHOTO, BIOGRAPHIC DATA
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