Ideally Improving and Regulating the Functions of the Circulatory System

It has been observed that a person in a qigong state automatically regulates his blood supply. During a qigong state, one needs less blood, so their blood supply is reduced and their heart gets a rest. When certain parts of the body need more blood, one's blood supply is increased. This is impossible for a non-qigong practitioner to achieve. Qigong can also change the responsive functions of blood vessels, making them very sensitive. When the heart contracts, the vessels immediately dilate, and when the heart dilates blood vessels immediately contract. This response enables vessel elasticity to not weaken with age. In this manner, one can avoid coronary disease, arterial sclerosis, or stroke at a young age. It has also been discovered that qigong practice improves the blood micro- circulation of the whole body. This is effective in maintaining good body shape and tone.

Being in a qigong state or coming into contact with a qigong master can significantly elevate red blood cell count. Guang Ming Daily, a major Chinese newspaper that focuses on science and culture, published a report titled "Qigong is Scientific." It described an experiment conducted by a research institute in Zhejiang province, China. The experiment tested changes in red blood cell counts of patients who had come into contact with a qigong master. After the qigong master emitted qi, a patient's red blood cell count immediately rose and kept on rising afterwards, while the master's red blood cell count decreased. What caused this phenomenon? It has been suggested that the energy level of the external qi emitted by the master was sufficiently high enough to enhance the functions of the blood-generating system, such as the bone marrow. This caused an increase in the patient's red blood cell count. The qigong master's blood count decreased since he was using energy and qi, causing his red blood cell count to decrease. He was only able to recover afterwards through constant qigong practice.

Shanghai Research Institute for Hypertension reported a study on one hundred cases of patients with hypertension. After five minutes of qigong practice, their blood pressure began to

78 Secrets and Benefits of Internal Qigong Cultivation

drop. After twenty minutes of qigong practice, their blood pressure dropped to the level it would normally be three hours after taking blood pressure reducing medication. Ninety seven patients were completely cured and three had relapses.

There are many examples of hypertension patients being cured by qigong. A female army physician suffered from high blood pressure of one hundred and seventy eight over ninety eight, and her daughter asked me to treat her mother's hypertension. I took her watch, went to the sink to get a glass of tap water, and asked her, "do you dare to drink this glass of water?" In China unboiled water is considered unsanitary, especially by people in the medical profession. But she said "I do," took the glass from me and drank it. As soon as she finished drinking, I told her to run home and take her mother's blood pressure. Soon she called and told me that her mother's pressure had dropped to a normal one hundred and twenty over eighty, and her headache was gone as well! Their home was about two hundred yards from mine and the treatment time was about fifteen minutes, indicating that qigong cures hypertension and does it fast.

Qigong can also drop one's blood pressure as low as if one were in a state of shock. A party secretary of Chongqing city sent a group to investigate my typical qigong patient treatment at the Chongqing Institute of Chinese Traditional Medicine. They had been writing about my seemingly miraculous treatments and called me an elf-like physician. This group was specifically sent to investigate my distant diagnosis and fluoroscopy. They asked me to illustrate distant control, and Mr. Chen Yunjong who worked in the City Health Bureau, offered to receive remote treatment from me for the experiment. I told him I might hurt him, but he said he was not afraid. "We have already investigated you, and all the things we heard about you are true. However, people say you can exercise physical control over patients from a distance, and, since I don't believe it, please let me try," he said earnestly. I had him stay in the inside room of the suite while I stayed in the outside room. I told him to stand by the window watching the Yangtze river with an empty mind. After a while, I asked him from my room, "any reaction?" He was ready to pass out, but still

Ten Mechanisms of Qigong Healing 79

pretended that he was all right and said, "Nothing!" Then I said, "good!" As soon as I finished speaking, he shouted, "I feel ;iwful, wait a moment!" He collapsed on the floor. He was soaked with sweat; his face was pale; his pulse was too weak to he felt; and his breath was almost undetectable. These reactions occurred because stimulants in the blood were decreased, causing .1 sharp drop in blood pressure.

Investigators have observed that after practicing qigong, one's blood corticosteroid level rises while beta-estradiol drops. I his condition prevents aging, and also causes a drop in blood sugar. That is why diabetic patients who attend a qigong lecture, or come in contact with a qigong master, achieve normal or significantly reduced sugar levels in their blood and urine.

It has also been found that those who attend qigong lectures and meet the master have the trace elements in their body regulated and improved. Some experiments on aging have found that longevity has little to do with one's nutrition or many of ilic components of blood. The proportion of red blood cells, white blood cells, and hemoglobin are practically the same in young and old. However, old people do have less trace elements than young people. This indicates that trace elements are closely related to the length of life. Among the fourteen trace elements in the human body, zinc is the most essential. According to some experiments, attending a qigong lecture, or meeting a qigong master, can significantly increase one's zinc level. Zinc is somehow related to the activity of the eighty enzymes in the body. Enzymes play an important role in the body's biochemical and physiological processes. Increased zinc levels do more than just prolong life, since the eighty enzymes have many functions. So we say that qigong practice promotes health, nutrition, and effective treatment for illness through I he improvement of those eighty enzymes.

Experiments also show decreased dopamine and beta- hydroxyl levels in blood after qigong practice. Other components can also be modified. Therefore, some say qigong can be effective in treating certain blood or other circulatory system illnesses.

80 Secrets and Benefits of Internal Qigong Cultivation

3. Ideally Improving the Functions of the Respiratory