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Hi,
a new study has just been published:

Assessment of immunological parameters following a
qigong training program Juan Manzaneque, Francisca
Vera, Enrique Maldonado, Gabriel Carranque, Victor
Cubero, Miguel Morell, Maria Blanca Signature: Med Sci
Monit, 2004; 10(6): CR264-270

the abstract is available at url below:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\
ct&list_uids=15173671

the full text article is freely available at url
below:
http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/modules.php?name=GetPDF&pg=2&idm=5189

Claude


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Thanks Claude,

Well designed study and the tracking of immunological
factors was apropos. They did find an "abnormal"
(below normal limits) result(s) that was inconclusive
pertaining to a lowered immunity profile but I would
have like to see what specifically triggered the
reading.  Perhaps more of a physical or medical
profile in the subjects who showed the problem.  COuld
also be a condition not diagnosed but showing up as a
'bleep' on the screen.  More of a followup on those
subjets would be ideal.



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Anyone work with addicts using Qigong systems in the
past?

I'm in the process of launching an authentically
holistic heroin addict recovery program through a
501(c)3 corporation I created.

One of the conceptual "bridges" unifying the discrete
practices found in the Physical-Mental-Spiritual
domains is Chi Kung.

I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has past
experience
in using Chi Kung methods as an adjunct therapy or
protocol when treating addiction disorders.


Posted on the QI Message Board by xan0q
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  1. What specific criteria regarding inclusion and
exclusion criteria do you wish to include in the
protocol?
2. What class/duration level of addiction do you wish
to incorporate?/work with. REALITY:
3. Location of programme: Suburban, urban, country?
a. Creation of data collection forms/instruments-WHo
will do that?
b. Protocol / criteria: who will oversee that
necessary criteria are apropos? Institutional Review
Board?
c. WHo will do statistical analyses? WHo will
report/record data and clean the speciifc elements.
d. What clinical data endpoints will you choose? and
why? All things to consider!

Kevin Chen et al instituted and reported a study
regarding Pangu qigong with positive results. Perhaps
you may take a look at the report and ascertain if
this falls into where you want to position your
project. It is somewhere (not sure) on this site so
that is a good start.


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I taught Tai Chi & Qigong for an urban county addiction recovery program in
Kansas City.  I learned several things:
- You must INSIST on a room that has ZERO distractions, no external noise, no
one watching who is not participating
- The Qigong program must be a REWARD program for those who earn it.  It can
NOT be a compulsory program
- Those who participate, must participate completely.  If they cause trouble
and distrations, they lose their right to participate.
- They don't need complicated qigong exercises.  They need very simple ones
that can achieve quick results.

The first day of the program I asked the group if they'd ever smoked pot.
Most had.  I said, let's do a little experiment.  Some of you may know that THC
the active ingredient in pot that changes mood actually takes a couple of
minutes to pass the brain blood barrier, HOWEVER when you take a hit off a
joint,
you feel a change right away.  This is because it is your BREATHING that is
changing the way you feel and not to pot.

Everyone purse your lips and pretend to be taking a big hit off a joint.
But, first empty the air out of your lungs completely.  Then draw in, draw in,
draw in, completely filling your lungs.  Now hold it, hold it, hold it, and now
as you let that breathe out imagine every cell in your body exhaling that
breath . . . and absolutely letting go.

Good.  Now lets do it again but this time with your eyes closed.  Again,
first empty the air out of your lungs completely.  Then draw in, draw in, draw
in,
completely filling your lungs.  Now hold it, hold it, hold it, and now as you
let that breathe out imagine every cell in your body exhaling that breath . .
. and absolutely letting go.

Very Good, eyes still closed, lets do this one last time. Again, first empty
the air out of your lungs completely.  Then draw in, draw in, draw in,
completely filling your lungs.  Now hold it, hold it, hold it, and now as you
let
that breathe out imagine every cell in your body exhaling that breath . . . and
absolutely letting go.  Every cell in your body is absolutely . . . letting go.

Good, now very slowly and very gently . . . open your eyes.

They will be amazed how they feel.  And now they are introduced to the power
of qigong, and the classes can begin.  I found a sitting qigong exercise I'd
developed to be very effective as a secondary step.  I'd be happy to send you a
CD with it on it.

Hope this helps.

Bill Douglas, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, www.worldtaichiday.org

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  Anyone work with addicts using Qigong systems in the
  past?

  I'm in the process of launching an authentically
  holistic heroin addict recovery program through a
  501(c)3 corporation I created.

  One of the conceptual "bridges" unifying the discrete
  practices found in the Physical-Mental-Spiritual
  domains is Chi Kung.

  I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has past
  experience
  in using Chi Kung methods as an adjunct therapy or
  protocol when treating addiction disorders.


  Posted on the QI Message Board by xan0q

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   1. What specific criteria regarding inclusion and
  exclusion criteria do you wish to include in the
  protocol?
  2. What class/duration level of addiction do you wish
  to incorporate?/work with. REALITY:
  3. Location of programme: Suburban, urban, country?
  a. Creation of data collection forms/instruments-WHo
  will do that?
  b. Protocol / criteria: who will oversee that
  necessary criteria are apropos? Institutional Review
  Board?
  c. WHo will do statistical analyses? WHo will
  report/record data and clean the speciifc elements.
  d. What clinical data endpoints will you choose? and
  why? All things to consider!

  Kevin Chen et al instituted and reported a study
  regarding Pangu qigong with positive results. Perhaps
  you may take a look at the report and ascertain if
  this falls into where you want to position your
  project. It is somewhere (not sure) on this site so
  that is a good start.


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Hello Everyone,
Regarding qigong and therapies for addiction.

There is a healing machine between 4hz to 7hr and rotating cycles meeting
every 15 revolutions was used in the psychiatric wards.  There was immediate
results with these patients with future orders for this device.

Qigong (and other breathing arts) slows wave patterns down and I believe
that you will get the same results for your addict and mental patients.

Your data will contribute to the whole of health care.  And if I can help
it, breathing techniques and associated arts will be in every hospital and
clinic on earth.  Keep up the good work.  As we know, the breath is the
answer to all things.
Love, Monica
(your servant and elder crystal)
PS.  Thank you all for your dedication toward the breath.  I applaud you
all who belong and participate on this yahoo group!


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>I taught Tai Chi & Qigong for an urban county addiction recovery program
>in <BR>
>Kansas City.  I learned several things:<BR>
>- You must INSIST on a room that has ZERO distractions, no external noise,
>no <BR>
>one watching who is not participating<BR>
>- The Qigong program must be a REWARD program for those who earn it. 
>It can <BR>
>NOT be a compulsory program<BR>
>- Those who participate, must participate completely.  If they cause
>trouble <BR>
>and distrations, they lose their right to participate.<BR>
>- They don't need complicated qigong exercises.  They need very simple
>ones <BR>
>that can achieve quick results.<BR>
><BR>
>The first day of the program I asked the group if they'd ever smoked pot. 
><BR>
>Most had.  I said, let's do a little experiment.  Some of you may
>know that THC <BR>
>the active ingredient in pot that changes mood actually takes a couple
of
><BR>
>minutes to pass the brain blood barrier, HOWEVER when you take a hit off
>a joint, <BR>
>you feel a change right away.  This is because it is your BREATHING
>that is <BR>
>changing the way you feel and not to pot.<BR>
><BR>
>Everyone purse your lips and pretend to be taking a big hit off a joint.  
><BR>
>But, first empty the air out of your lungs completely.  Then draw in,
>draw in, <BR>
>draw in, completely filling your lungs.  Now hold it, hold it, hold
>it, and now <BR>
>as you let that breathe out imagine every cell in your body exhaling that
><BR>
>breath . . . and absolutely letting go.<BR>
><BR>
>Good.  Now lets do it again but this time with your eyes closed. 
>Again, <BR>
>first empty the air out of your lungs completely.  Then draw in, draw
>in, draw in, <BR>
>completely filling your lungs.  Now hold it, hold it, hold it, and now
>as you <BR>
>let that breathe out imagine every cell in your body exhaling that breath
>. . <BR>
>. and absolutely letting go.<BR>
><BR>
>Very Good, eyes still closed, lets do this one last time. Again, first
empty
><BR>
>the air out of your lungs completely.  Then draw in, draw in, draw in,
><BR>
>completely filling your lungs.  Now hold it, hold it, hold it, and now
>as you let <BR>
>that breathe out imagine every cell in your body exhaling that breath .
.
>. and <BR>
>absolutely letting go.  Every cell in your body is absolutely . . .
>letting go.<BR>
><BR>
>Good, now very slowly and very gently . . . open your eyes.<BR>
><BR>
>They will be amazed how they feel.  And now they are introduced to the
>power <BR>
>of qigong, and the classes can begin.  I found a sitting qigong exercise
>I'd <BR>
>developed to be very effective as a secondary step.  I'd be happy to
>send you a <BR>
>CD with it on it.<BR>
><BR>
>Hope this helps.<BR>
><BR>
>Bill Douglas, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, www.worldtaichiday.org<BR>
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> past?<BR>
> <BR>
> I'm in the process of launching an authentically<BR>
> holistic heroin addict recovery program through a<BR>
> 501(c)3 corporation I created.<BR>
> <BR>
> One of the conceptual "bridges" unifying the discrete<BR>
> practices found in the Physical-Mental-Spiritual<BR>
> domains is Chi Kung.<BR>
> <BR>
> I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has past<BR>
> experience<BR>
> in using Chi Kung methods as an adjunct therapy or<BR>
> protocol when treating addiction disorders.<BR>
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> protocol?<BR>
> 2. What class/duration level of addiction do you wish<BR>
> to incorporate?/work with. REALITY: <BR>
> 3. Location of programme: Suburban, urban, country?<BR>
> a. Creation of data collection forms/instruments-WHo<BR>
> will do that?<BR>
> b. Protocol / criteria: who will oversee that<BR>
> necessary criteria are apropos? Institutional Review<BR>
> Board?<BR>
> c. WHo will do statistical analyses? WHo will<BR>
> report/record data and clean the speciifc elements.<BR>
> d. What clinical data endpoints will you choose? and<BR>
> why? All things to consider!<BR>
> <BR>
> Kevin Chen et al instituted and reported a study<BR>
> regarding Pangu qigong with positive results. Perhaps<BR>
> you may take a look at the report and ascertain if<BR>
> this falls into where you want to position your<BR>
> project. It is somewhere (not sure) on this site so<BR>
> that is a good start.<BR>
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I agree, acupuncture and qi machines should be used.  However, in addition
addicts also need a self empowerment technique that they can use on their own,
such as qigong, yoga, etc. etc.

Bill Douglas, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day founder

<< Hello Everyone,
  Regarding qigong and therapies for addiction.

  There is a healing machine between 4hz to 7hr and rotating cycles meeting
  every 15 revolutions was used in the psychiatric wards.  There was immediate
  results with these patients with future orders for this device.

  Qigong (and other breathing arts) slows wave patterns down and I believe
  that you will get the same results for your addict and mental patients.

  Your data will contribute to the whole of health care.  And if I can help
  it, breathing techniques and associated arts will be in every hospital and
  clinic on earth.  Keep up the good work.  As we know, the breath is the
  answer to all things.
  Love, Monica
  (your servant and elder crystal)
  PS.  Thank you all for your dedication toward the breath.  I applaud you
  all who belong and participate on this yahoo group! >>

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  Hello %%WORD1% 00aolcom:

Now that ... is some first rate, hands on insight.
Thank you most kindly.

Drop me a PM is you feel like ...
BambooTempleUSA@...

I would like to have an opportunity to "pick your
brain" a bit if you are up for it.

The one method I'm using is not all that complex with
regard to movement pattern ... Taoist 8 Immortals of
the WuDang Mountain region.

What is necessary is persistence with regard to
internal visualization coupled with monitoring of body
... kinesthetic awareness by any other name coupled
with sustained concentration - mental focus.

The second method is fairly complex, the Tid Sin Kuen
as held by the Chun Hon Chung line of H'ung Ga.

They will be in the program a while before learning
this set as it has a pronounced body cavity pressure
manipulation scheme. That's a bit dangerous so they
will be introduced to it strictly on a "case by case"
basis.

Hope to hear from you. Take care.

-------------------------------------------------

  I taught Tai Chi & Qigong for an urban county
addiction recovery program in
Kansas City. I learned several things:
- You must INSIST on a room that has ZERO
distractions, no external noise, no
one watching who is not participating
- The Qigong program must be a REWARD program for
those who earn it. It can
NOT be a compulsory program
- Those who participate, must participate completely.
If they cause trouble
and distrations, they lose their right to participate.
- They don't need complicated qigong exercises. They
need very simple ones
that can achieve quick results.

The first day of the program I asked the group if
they'd ever smoked pot.
Most had. I said, let's do a little experiment. Some
of you may know that THC
the active ingredient in pot that changes mood
actually takes a couple of
minutes to pass the brain blood barrier, HOWEVER when
you take a hit off a joint,
you feel a change right away. This is because it is
your BREATHING that is
changing the way you feel and not to pot.

Everyone purse your lips and pretend to be taking a
big hit off a joint.
But, first empty the air out of your lungs completely.
Then draw in, draw in,
draw in, completely filling your lungs. Now hold it,
hold it, hold it, and now
as you let that breathe out imagine every cell in your
body exhaling that
breath . . . and absolutely letting go.

Good. Now lets do it again but this time with your
eyes closed. Again,
first empty the air out of your lungs completely. Then
draw in, draw in, draw in,
completely filling your lungs. Now hold it, hold it,
hold it, and now as you
let that breathe out imagine every cell in your body
exhaling that breath . .
. and absolutely letting go.

Very Good, eyes still closed, lets do this one last
time. Again, first empty
the air out of your lungs completely. Then draw in,
draw in, draw in,
completely filling your lungs. Now hold it, hold it,
hold it, and now as you let
that breathe out imagine every cell in your body
exhaling that breath . . . and
absolutely letting go. Every cell in your body is
absolutely . . . letting go.

Good, now very slowly and very gently . . . open your
eyes.

They will be amazed how they feel. And now they are
introduced to the power
of qigong, and the classes can begin. I found a
sitting qigong exercise I'd
developed to be very effective as a secondary step.
I'd be happy to send you a
CD with it on it.

Hope this helps.

Bill Douglas, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, www.worldtaichiday.org

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I found that the breath work is the most immediately effective tact, and then
coupled with simple repetitive motions whereby they don't have to mentally
work too hard to grasp it, but rather are extolled to constantly "let go"
"enjoy" and "feel the pleasure" of the simple repetitive motions (I do these
mostly
with eyes closed, so if they are complex at all and non-repetitive, they'll
not be able to do it with eyes closed).  They are under so much mental,
emotional, and physical stress from withdrawal that the qigong needs to be an
internal
pleasure awareness "playtime," and not a mental burden that frustrates them.

Hope that helps,

Bill Douglas, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day

<< What is necessary is persistence with regard to
  internal visualization coupled with monitoring of body
  ... kinesthetic awareness by any other name coupled
  with sustained concentration - mental focus.

  The second method is fairly complex, the Tid Sin Kuen
  as held by the Chun Hon Chung line of H'ung Ga.

  They will be in the program a while before learning
  this set as it has a pronounced body cavity pressure
  manipulation scheme. That's a bit dangerous so they
  will be introduced to it strictly on a "case by case"
  basis.

  Hope to hear from you. Take care.
   >>

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Thanks to all who have made contributions thus far.

Hey Bill, Frances Gander (Three Treasures), an old
friend of mine is doing the acupuncture & herbal
supplement part of the program.  She's recently
relocated out of State but has stated she will travel
to run her protocols when required.

Aube - Thanks for the input.  I'm using audio
technology freely provided by Kelly Howell.  I
wouldn't know Kelly if she walked into the room but I
love her madly.  When I first contacted her a couple
of years ago she said "send me your wish list" from
her CD catalog and I did.  About a week late I
received a box with everything I asked for and she has
never asked for anything in return.  I find that to be
simply awesome.

Check out Frolov as his breathing device is one of the
protocols.  Similarly, Steven Richards, hand picked
successor for the late Dr. Carl Jung's depth
psychology method has some systems that alter blood
chemistry as well.  He comes from the authentic
Tibetan Tantra tradition (as opposed to the many clubs
that front for kinky sex).

As you properly noted, breath is a critical component
of life for us.

Here are some things that might interest you:
http://www.breathing.com/articles/endogenous-respiration.htm

http://www.intellectbreathing.com/

And just how is it you are an "Elder Crystal" my dear?
:smokin

Good stuff "s" and in light of "x" putting forth some
real effort to assist me in this endeavor I've been
compelled to re-evaluate my opinion of him ... same
goes for you.  The slate is clean on all accounts as
far as I'm concerned.

Your contribution is greatly appreciated and if you
choose to add still more that would be appreciated as
well.

"Cost" is not the primary driver in any of the
protocols within the program, x.  The majority of them
are relatively inexpensive with Frances' acupuncture
and herbal supplement being the most costly ... around
$2500.00 per client.  Her fee is very reasonable in
light of the amount of time and effort she will have
to expend.

Most of the paraphernalia based protocol materials
I've purchased out of my own pocket over the last
couple of years so the real outstanding cost is being
able to pay for the services provided by the subject
matter experts.

The R.E.S.T. devices are something else.  I only have
to purchase one and I have a couple of buddies who
will build the others for cost of the materials only.
1 is a Master Carpenter and the other a Master
Plumber.  I'm hooked :lol

The computer training on the job skills end of it is
the most costly but the rate I will be paying for a
Systems Security Specialist as the Instructor is dirt
cheap.  Those guys get paid big bucks just for showing
up in the corporate World.

Thanks once again to all that have contributed thus
far.  This site has proven to be a real gold mine for
quality, experience based information.

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Can Prayers Heal? Critics Say Studies Go Past Science's Reach

October 10, 2004
 By BENEDICT CAREY 



 

In 2001, two researchers and a Columbia University
fertility expert published a startling finding in a
respected med
ical journal: women undergoing fertility
treatment who had been prayed for by Christian groups were
twice as likely to have a successful pregnancy as those who
had not. 

Three years later, after one of the researchers pleaded
guilty to conspiracy in an unrelated business fraud,
Columbia is investigating the study and the journal
reportedly pulled the paper from its Web site. 

No evidence of manipulation has yet surfaced, and the
study's authors stand behind their data. 

But the doubts about the study have added to the debate
over a deeply controversial area of research: whether
prayer can heal illness. 

Critics express outrage that the federal government, which
has contributed $2.3 million in financing over the last
four years for prayer research, would spend taxpayer money
to study something they say has nothing to do with science.


"Intercessory prayer presupposes some supernatural
intervention that is by definition beyond the reach of
science," said Dr. Richard J. McN
ally, a psychologist at
Harvard. "It is just a nonstarter, in my opinion, a total
waste of time and money." 

Prayer researchers, many themselves believers in prayer's
healing powers, say scientists do not need to know how a
treatment or intervention works before testing it. 

Dr. Richard Nahin, a senior adviser at the National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the
National Institutes of Health, said in an e-mail message
that the studies were meant to answer practical questions,
not religious ones. 

"We only recently understood how aspirin worked, and the
mechanisms of action of various antidepressants and general
anesthetics remain under investigation," Dr. Nahin wrote. 

He said a recent government study found that 45 percent of
adults prayed specifically for health reasons, and
suggested that many of them were poor people with limited
access to care. 

"It is a public health imperative to understand if this
prayer offers them any benefit," Dr. Nah
in wrote. 

Some researchers also point out that praying for the relief
of other people's suffering is a deeply human response to
disease. 

The 'Placebo Effect' 

Since 2000, at least 10 studies of intercessory prayer have
been carried out by researchers at institutions including
the Mind/Body Medical Institute, a nonprofit clinic near
Boston run by a Harvard-trained cardiologist, as well as
Duke University and the University of Washington.
Government financing of intercessory prayer research began
in the mid-1990's and has continued under the Bush
administration. 

In one continuing study, financed by the National
Institutes of Health and called "Placebo Effect in Distant
Healing of Wounds," doctors at California Pacific Medical
Center, a major hospital in San Francisco, inflict a tiny
stab wound on the abdomens of women receiving breast
reconstruction surgery, with their consent, and then
determine whether the "focused intention" of a variety of
healers speeds the wound's 
healing. 

Two large trials of the effects of prayer on coronary
health are currently under review at prominent medical
journals. 

Even those who defend prayer research concede that such
studies are difficult. For one thing, no one knows what
constitutes a "dose": some studies have tested a few
prayers a day by individual healers, while others have had
entire congregations pray together. Some have involved
evangelical Christians; others have engaged rabbis,
Buddhist and New Age healers, or some combination. 

Another problem concerns the mechanism by which prayer
might be supposed to work. Some researchers contend that
prayer's effects - if they exist - have little to do with
religion or the existence of God. Instead of divine
intervention, they propose things like "subtle energies,"
"mind-to-mind communication" or "extra dimensions of
space-time" - concepts that many scientists dismiss as
nonsense. Others suggest that prayer may have a soothing
effect that works like a plac
ebo for believers who know
they are being prayed for. 

Either way, even many churchgoers are skeptical that prayer
can be subjected to scientific scrutiny. For one thing,
prayers vary in their purpose and content: some give
praise, others petition for strength, many ask only that
God's will be done. For another, not everyone sees God as
one who does favors on request. 

"There's no way to put God to the test, and that's exactly
what you're doing when you design a study to see if God
answers your prayers," said the Rev. Raymond J. Lawrence
Jr., director of pastoral care at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. "This whole
exercise cheapens religion, and promotes an infantile
theology that God is out there ready to miraculously defy
the laws of nature in answer to a prayer." 

Prayer and Heart Disease 

Proponents of prayer research
often cite two large heart disease trials to justify
further study of prayer's healing potential. 

In one study, Dr.
 Randolph Byrd, a San Francisco
cardiologist, had groups of born-again Christians pray for
192 of 393 patients being treated at the coronary care unit
of San Francisco General Hospital. In 1988, Dr. Byrd
reported in The Southern Medical Journal, a peer-reviewed
publication of the Southern Medical Association, that the
patients who were prayed for did better on several measures
of health, including the need for drugs and breathing
assistance. 

At the end of the paper, Dr. Byrd wrote, "I thank God for
responding to the many prayers made on behalf of the
patients." 

In the other study, of 990 heart disease patients, Dr.
William S. Harris of St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City,
Mo., and his colleagues reported in The Archives of
Internal Medicine in 1999 that the patients who were prayed
for by religious strangers did significantly better than
the others on a measure of coronary health that included
more than 30 factors. Dr. Harris, who was one of the
authors of a paper arguing 
that Darwin's theory of
evolution is speculative, concluded that his study
supported Dr. Byrd's. 

In the experiments, the researchers did not know until the
study was completed which patients were being prayed for.
But experts say the two studies suffer from a similar
weakness: the authors measured so many variables that some
were likely to come up positive by chance. In effect,
statisticians say, this method is like asking the same
question over and over until you get the answer you want. 

"It's a weak measure," said Dr. Richard Sloan, a professor
of behavioral medicine at Columbia who has been critical of
prayer research. "You're collecting 30 or 40 variables but
can't even specify up front which ones" will be affected. 

Dr. Harris corrected for this problem, experts say, but he
then found significant differences between prayer and
no-prayer groups only by using a formula that he and his
colleagues had devised, and that no one else had ever
validated. A swarm of letters 
to the journal challenged Dr.
Harris's methods. One correspondent, a Dutch doctor,
jokingly claimed that he could account for the results
because he was clairvoyant. "I have subsequently used my
telepathic powers to influence the course of the
experimental group," he wrote. 

Still, some religious leaders and practitioners of
alternative medicine argue that because prayer is so common
a response to illness, researchers have a responsibility to
investigate it. 

"We need to look at this with what I call open-minded
skepticism," said Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, the lead
investigator of the federally financed wound healing study
and the director of research at the Institute of Noetic
Sciences, an alternative medicine research center near San
Francisco. 

Questions About Data 

It was a former associate of Dr. Schlitz's, Dr. Elisabeth
Targ, who first helped draw federal money into research on
so-called distant healing. The daughter of Russell Targ, a
physicist who studied extrasensory p
erception for
government intelligence agencies in the 1970's, Dr. Targ
made headlines with a 1998 study suggesting that prayers
from assorted religious healers and shamans could protect
AIDS patients from some complications related to the
disease. 

The findings, and Dr. Targ's reputation, helped win her two
grants from the complementary and alternative medicine
center at the National Institutes of Health - one for a
larger study of distant healing among AIDS patients,
another to test the effect of prayers by outside healers on
the longevity of people with deadly brain tumors. 

Both trials are continuing at the California Pacific
Medical Center in San Francisco, which has a complementary
medicine wing, but Dr. Targ is no longer running them. She
herself died of brain cancer in 2002. 

Shortly after Dr. Targ's death, her methods came under
attack. An article in Wired magazine charged that she and
her co-authors had massaged their data on AIDS to make the
effects of prayer loo
k better than they were. 

Officials at California Pacific conducted an investigation
of the study and concluded that the data had not been
manipulated. Dr. John Astin, who is running the second AIDS
study, said the biggest weakness of Dr. Targ's first trial
was that it was too small to be conclusive. 

But in a letter defending the study, the hospital's
director of research also acknowledged that he could not
tell for sure from the original medical records which
patients had been prayed for and which had not been. 

"Each subject's name, age and date of birth were blinded
with what appears to be a black crayon," he wrote. 

The quality of original data is also at the center of the
controversy over the 2001 Columbia fertility study, which
was reported by many newspapers including The New York
Times. Dr. Kwang Cha, a Korean fertility specialist
visiting the university, was the study's lead author.
Daniel Wirth, a lawyer from California who had conducted
research on alternative
 healing, was his principal research
associate. In the spring of 1999, the two met at a
Starbucks on the Upper West Side to exchange data,
according to Dr. Cha, who provided details of the meeting
through a colleague. 

Dr. Cha had the pregnancy results with him, and Mr. Wirth
had a roster of the women he said had been prayed for. The
two had never shared the information before, and Dr. Cha
was surprised enough by the results that he took them to a
former mentor, Dr. Rogerio Lobo of Columbia, to make sure
the study was done correctly. 

In a recent interview, Dr. Lobo said that the study had
come to him as a "fait accompli" and that he had
interrogated Dr. Cha to make sure his study methods were
sound. He decided they were and helped write the study. 

"We had these results, we didn't believe them, we couldn't
explain them, but we decided to put them out there," Dr.
Lobo said. 

In May, Mr. Wirth pleaded guilty to conspiracy in
connection with a $2 million business fraud in
P
ennsylvania. He is awaiting sentencing. 

Dr. Lobo said he had met Mr. Wirth but knew little about
him or about his contributions to the study. He
acknowledged that the data could have been manipulated, but
said he did not know how. 

"I didn't actually conduct the study, so I can't know for
sure," Dr. Lobo said. 

Mr. Wirth's lawyer, William Arbuckle, said his client was
not available for comment. 

'This Is No Routine Paper' 

One study that many people believe could either bolster
prayer research or dampen interest in the topic has been
completed, but has not yet been published. Dr. Herbert
Benson, the cardiologist who founded the Mind/Body Medical
Institute, began the trial in the late 1990's with $2.4
million from the John Templeton Foundation, which supports
research into spirituality. The Mind/Body Institute,
according to its Web site, is a "scientific and educational
organization dedicated to the study of mind/body
interactions." 

The study included some 1,800 volunt
eers, heart bypass
patients at six hospitals. They were monitored according to
strict medical guidelines and randomly assigned to be
prayed for or not. One doctor who has seen a final version
of the study said it was the most rigorous trial on the
subject to date. 

Other experts say they wonder whether the study will be
published at all, and what is holding it up. 

"He's got nothing, or we would have seen it by now," Dr.
Sloan of Columbia said, referring to Dr. Benson. 

In an interview at his office, Dr. Benson acknowledged that
at least two medical journals had turned down the study
after asking for revisions. He said that the study was
currently under review at another journal and that talking
about the results could jeopardize publication. 

"This is no routine paper," he said. "What you're looking
at obviously is not a typical intervention, not at all. We
are at the interface of science and religion here, and
there are boundary issues that you would not have for
almost
 any other paper." 

Dr. Benson, who has studied the links between spirituality
and medicine for many years, declined to answer when asked
if he himself believed in the effects of intercessory
prayer, saying only that he believed in God. 

"We know that praying for oneself can influence health, so
that's what led us to this topic," he said. 

If researchers are struggling to prove that intercessory
prayer has benefits for health, at least one study hints
that it could be harmful. 

In a 1997 experiment involving 40 alcoholics in rehab,
psychologists at the University of New Mexico found that
although intercessory prayers did not have any effect on
drinking patterns, the men and women in the study who knew
they were being prayed for actually did worse. 

"It's not clear what that means," said Dr. William Miller,
one of the study's authors. 

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I consider this "Group Consciousness" as a closed case.
The Group Consciousness has been proved by experiments.

See the Global Consciousness Project (GCP) :
     http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
is an international collaboration of researchers extending this
research to global dimensions designed to record effects of
events (e.g. 9/11) that stimulate us to integrate as a world-wide
consciousness. The GCP works with a synchronized network of electronic
devices (random event generators) which record data at dozens of
sites around the world and report it via the Internet to central
computers. Their result: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/results.html

     There is also a similar Qi (chi) research paper published done by
Dr. Yan Xin, a famous Qigong master using scientific approach
- http://www.issseem.org/V8N1Abs.html

"Anomalous Organization of Random Events during an International
Qigong Meeting: Evidence for Group Consciousness or Accumulated
Qi Fields?

Research has documented anomalous organization of random events
generated by an electronic random events generator (REG) during
various group situations that promote group consciousness experiences.
A group situation hypothesized to promote an intense group consciousness
experience was an international Qigong conference. Over 2500 invited
guests, scientists and practitioners from many countries attended
the 1997 International Yan Xin Qigong Practice and Research Conference
in New York City on August 30-September 1. Three basic REG predictions
were evaluated: (1) the null hypothesis, (2) deviations from randomness
would be observed during the days and would disappear during the nights,
and (3) deviations from randomness would be observed during the days
and continue during the nights (predicted by Chinese scientists YX, ZS,
and LS to reflect "accumulating Qi over the entire meeting"). Three
days and two nights of FieldREG data were collected prior to, during,
and following the conference. During the conference, a total of 234,412
trials of 200 samples per second reflecting I's and O's (100 I's would
be expected to occur by chance per second on the average) were collected
using a PEAR computerized FieldREG system and stored for later analysis.
When the 3 days and 2 nights were analyzed in terms of trials above
versus below 100, all five segments showed relative increases (p = .023).
These patterns were not observed during the pre and post conference
control days and nights. The data provide tentative support for the
hypothesis that an intense group experience that continues over a
three day period may create a consciousness or Qi field that can be
discerned using the FieldREG paradigm.


dao



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Can Prayers Heal? Critics Say Studies Go Past Science's Reach

October 10, 2004
   By BENEDICT CAREY




In 2001, two researchers and a Columbia University
fertility expert published a startling finding in a
respected medical journal: women undergoing fertility
treatment who had been prayed for by Christian groups were
twice as likely to have a successful pregnancy as those who
had not.

Three years later, after one of the researchers pleaded
guilty to conspiracy in an unrelated business fraud,
Columbia is investigating the study and the journal
reportedly pulled the paper from its Web site.

No evidence of manipulation has yet surfaced, and the
study's authors stand behind their data.

But the doubts about the study have added to the debate
over a deeply controversial area of research: whether
prayer can heal illness.

Critics express outrage that the federal government, which
has contributed $2.3 million in financing over the last
four years for prayer research, would spend taxpayer money
to study something they say has nothing to do with science.


"Intercessory prayer presupposes some supernatural
intervention that is by definition beyond the reach of
science," said Dr. Richard J. McNally, a psychologist at
Harvard. "It is just a nonstarter, in my opinion, a total
waste of time and money."

Prayer researchers, many themselves believers in prayer's
healing powers, say scientists do not need to know how a
treatment or intervention works before testing it.

Dr. Richard Nahin, a senior adviser at the National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the
National Institutes of Health, said in an e-mail message
that the studies were meant to answer practical questions,
not religious ones.

"We only recently understood how aspirin worked, and the
mechanisms of action of various antidepressants and general
anesthetics remain under investigation," Dr. Nahin wrote.

He said a recent government study found that 45 percent of
adults prayed specifically for health reasons, and
suggested that many of them were poor people with limited
access to care.

"It is a public health imperative to understand if this
prayer offers them any benefit," Dr. Nahin wrote.

Some researchers also point out that praying for the relief
of other people's suffering is a deeply human response to
disease.

The 'Placebo Effect'

Since 2000, at least 10 studies of intercessory prayer have
been carried out by researchers at institutions including
the Mind/Body Medical Institute, a nonprofit clinic near
Boston run by a Harvard-trained cardiologist, as well as
Duke University and the University of Washington.
Government financing of intercessory prayer research began
in the mid-1990's and has continued under the Bush
administration.

In one continuing study, financed by the National
Institutes of Health and called "Placebo Effect in Distant
Healing of Wounds," doctors at California Pacific Medical
Center, a major hospital in San Francisco, inflict a tiny
stab wound on the abdomens of women receiving breast
reconstruction surgery, with their consent, and then
determine whether the "focused intention" of a variety of
healers speeds the wound's healing.

Two large trials of the effects of prayer on coronary
health are currently under review at prominent medical
journals.

Even those who defend prayer research concede that such
studies are difficult. For one thing, no one knows what
constitutes a "dose": some studies have tested a few
prayers a day by individual healers, while others have had
entire congregations pray together. Some have involved
evangelical Christians; others have engaged rabbis,
Buddhist and New Age healers, or some combination.

Another problem concerns the mechanism by which prayer
might be supposed to work. Some researchers contend that
prayer's effects - if they exist - have little to do with
religion or the existence of God. Instead of divine
intervention, they propose things like "subtle energies,"
"mind-to-mind communication" or "extra dimensions of
space-time" - concepts that many scientists dismiss as
nonsense. Others suggest that prayer may have a soothing
effect that works like a placebo for believers who know
they are being prayed for.

Either way, even many churchgoers are skeptical that prayer
can be subjected to scientific scrutiny. For one thing,
prayers vary in their purpose and content: some give
praise, others petition for strength, many ask only that
God's will be done. For another, not everyone sees God as
one who does favors on request.

"There's no way to put God to the test, and that's exactly
what you're doing when you design a study to see if God
answers your prayers," said the Rev. Raymond J. Lawrence
Jr., director of pastoral care at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. "This whole
exercise cheapens religion, and promotes an infantile
theology that God is out there ready to miraculously defy
the laws of nature in answer to a prayer."

Prayer and Heart Disease

Proponents of prayer research
often cite two large heart disease trials to justify
further study of prayer's healing potential.

In one study, Dr. Randolph Byrd, a San Francisco
cardiologist, had groups of born-again Christians pray for
192 of 393 patients being treated at the coronary care unit
of San Francisco General Hospital. In 1988, Dr. Byrd
reported in The Southern Medical Journal, a peer-reviewed
publication of the Southern Medical Association, that the
patients who were prayed for did better on several measures
of health, including the need for drugs and breathing
assistance.

At the end of the paper, Dr. Byrd wrote, "I thank God for
responding to the many prayers made on behalf of the
patients."

In the other study, of 990 heart disease patients, Dr.
William S. Harris of St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City,
Mo., and his colleagues reported in The Archives of
Internal Medicine in 1999 that the patients who were prayed
for by religious strangers did significantly better than
the others on a measure of coronary health that included
more than 30 factors. Dr. Harris, who was one of the
authors of a paper arguing that Darwin's theory of
evolution is speculative, concluded that his study
supported Dr. Byrd's.

In the experiments, the researchers did not know until the
study was completed which patients were being prayed for.
But experts say the two studies suffer from a similar
weakness: the authors measured so many variables that some
were likely to come up positive by chance. In effect,
statisticians say, this method is like asking the same
question over and over until you get the answer you want.

"It's a weak measure," said Dr. Richard Sloan, a professor
of behavioral medicine at Columbia who has been critical of
prayer research. "You're collecting 30 or 40 variables but
can't even specify up front which ones" will be affected.

Dr. Harris corrected for this problem, experts say, but he
then found significant differences between prayer and
no-prayer groups only by using a formula that he and his
colleagues had devised, and that no one else had ever
validated. A swarm of letters to the journal challenged Dr.
Harris's methods. One correspondent, a Dutch doctor,
jokingly claimed that he could account for the results
because he was clairvoyant. "I have subsequently used my
telepathic powers to influence the course of the
experimental group," he wrote.

Still, some religious leaders and practitioners of
alternative medicine argue that because prayer is so common
a response to illness, researchers have a responsibility to
investigate it.

"We need to look at this with what I call open-minded
skepticism," said Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, the lead
investigator of the federally financed wound healing study
and the director of research at the Institute of Noetic
Sciences, an alternative medicine research center near San
Francisco.

Questions About Data

It was a former associate of Dr. Schlitz's, Dr. Elisabeth
Targ, who first helped draw federal money into research on
so-called distant healing. The daughter of Russell Targ, a
physicist who studied extrasensory perception for
government intelligence agencies in the 1970's, Dr. Targ
made headlines with a 1998 study suggesting that prayers
  from assorted religious healers and shamans could protect
AIDS patients from some complications related to the
disease.

The findings, and Dr. Targ's reputation, helped win her two
grants from the complementary and alternative medicine
center at the National Institutes of Health - one for a
larger study of distant healing among AIDS patients,
another to test the effect of prayers by outside healers on
the longevity of people with deadly brain tumors.

Both trials are continuing at the California Pacific
Medical Center in San Francisco, which has a complementary
medicine wing, but Dr. Targ is no longer running them. She
herself died of brain cancer in 2002.

Shortly after Dr. Targ's death, her methods came under
attack. An article in Wired magazine charged that she and
her co-authors had massaged their data on AIDS to make the
effects of prayer look better than they were.

Officials at California Pacific conducted an investigation
of the study and concluded that the data had not been
manipulated. Dr. John Astin, who is running the second AIDS
study, said the biggest weakness of Dr. Targ's first trial
was that it was too small to be conclusive.

But in a letter defending the study, the hospital's
director of research also acknowledged that he could not
tell for sure from the original medical records which
patients had been prayed for and which had not been.

"Each subject's name, age and date of birth were blinded
with what appears to be a black crayon," he wrote.

The quality of original data is also at the center of the
controversy over the 2001 Columbia fertility study, which
was reported by many newspapers including The New York
Times. Dr. Kwang Cha, a Korean fertility specialist
visiting the university, was the study's lead author.
Daniel Wirth, a lawyer from California who had conducted
research on alternative healing, was his principal research
associate. In the spring of 1999, the two met at a
Starbucks on the Upper West Side to exchange data,
according to Dr. Cha, who provided details of the meeting
through a colleague.

Dr. Cha had the pregnancy results with him, and Mr. Wirth
had a roster of the women he said had been prayed for. The
two had never shared the information before, and Dr. Cha
was surprised enough by the results that he took them to a
former mentor, Dr. Rogerio Lobo of Columbia, to make sure
the study was done correctly.

In a recent interview, Dr. Lobo said that the study had
come to him as a "fait accompli" and that he had
interrogated Dr. Cha to make sure his study methods were
sound. He decided they were and helped write the study.

"We had these results, we didn't believe them, we couldn't
explain them, but we decided to put them out there," Dr.
Lobo said.

In May, Mr. Wirth pleaded guilty to conspiracy in
connection with a $2 million business fraud in
Pennsylvania. He is awaiting sentencing.

Dr. Lobo said he had met Mr. Wirth but knew little about
him or about his contributions to the study. He
acknowledged that the data could have been manipulated, but
said he did not know how.

"I didn't actually conduct the study, so I can't know for
sure," Dr. Lobo said.

Mr. Wirth's lawyer, William Arbuckle, said his client was
not available for comment.

'This Is No Routine Paper'

One study that many people believe could either bolster
prayer research or dampen interest in the topic has been
completed, but has not yet been published. Dr. Herbert
Benson, the cardiologist who founded the Mind/Body Medical
Institute, began the trial in the late 1990's with $2.4
million from the John Templeton Foundation, which supports
research into spirituality. The Mind/Body Institute,
according to its Web site, is a "scientific and educational
organization dedicated to the study of mind/body
interactions."

The study included some 1,800 volunteers, heart bypass
patients at six hospitals. They were monitored according to
strict medical guidelines and randomly assigned to be
prayed for or not. One doctor who has seen a final version
of the study said it was the most rigorous trial on the
subject to date.

Other experts say they wonder whether the study will be
published at all, and what is holding it up.

"He's got nothing, or we would have seen it by now," Dr.
Sloan of Columbia said, referring to Dr. Benson.

In an interview at his office, Dr. Benson acknowledged that
at least two medical journals had turned down the study
after asking for revisions. He said that the study was
currently under review at another journal and that talking
about the results could jeopardize publication.

"This is no routine paper," he said. "What you're looking
at obviously is not a typical intervention, not at all. We
are at the interface of science and religion here, and
there are boundary issues that you would not have for
almost any other paper."

Dr. Benson, who has studied the links between spirituality
and medicine for many years, declined to answer when asked
if he himself believed in the effects of intercessory
prayer, saying only that he believed in God.

"We know that praying for oneself can influence health, so
that's what led us to this topic," he said.

If researchers are struggling to prove that intercessory
prayer has benefits for health, at least one study hints
that it could be harmful.

In a 1997 experiment involving 40 alcoholics in rehab,
psychologists at the University of New Mexico found that
although intercessory prayers did not have any effect on
drinking patterns, the men and women in the study who knew
they were being prayed for actually did worse.

"It's not clear what that means," said Dr. William Miller,
one of the study's authors.

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Seventh World Congress on Qigong and the 7^th American Qigong Association Conference

November 12 – 15, 2004
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San Francisco, CA.

Medical Qigong (and TCM) for Self Healing

Theme: "Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): Giving Hope Where There Was None" The Ancient Natural Self-Healing Subtle Energy Medicine for the Present and Future

 SAVE THE DATES!  Exhibitors, Sponsors, Donors, and Volunteers welcome!  Earlybird deadline extended: November 9
Make plans now to attend!  For Details: http://www.eastwestqi.com/ 

REGISTER AT:  http://www.eastwestqi.com/html/qigong_congress/online_reg/online_reg.html

This is a “must attend eventâ€� for anyone interested in their own health and in helping others with their healing.  Expand your existing profession or develop a new career. The Congress will be a healing event.  The Saturday Evening Gala Fundraiser with awards and spectacular healing demonstrations and feats of power strength, ending with Qi-dancing is open to others who do not attend the entire Congress.  Bring your friends for an unforgettable, fun, beneficial,  and inexpensive evening!

Previous Congress Attendees have reported â€œQigong has helped me where all else had failedâ€�, "My 15 years of severe fibromyalgia and pain is gone", "I had frozen shoulders and severe pain for 7 years, now I have full mobility and no pain", "I was wheelchair bound for over 10 years   and my doctor said I would never walk again, but at the Congress workshop I got up and walked and danced", “My tumor reduced in size by 75% at the workshopâ€�…

We hear such "miracle-like" glowing reports frequently and about other conditions repeatedly. 

You will learn skills to take home and use.

Over 40 World Renown Qigong Masters, Martial Artists, and scientists will once again preside with spectacular healing and hard qi demonstrations and sound scientific presentations!  November 13 will be proclaimed Qigong Day by the San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newcom.  A few other Highlights:   Assemblyman Leland Yee,  SF Commissioner on Aging Mrs. Veny Zamora, and other VIPs will attend, and many other exciting activities such as.....One Master from Japan will demonstrate removing facial wrinkles within a short time in a day....Another will use a surrogate to carry out distant diagnosis....A surgeon from China will demonstrate eyelid weight-lifting a pail of water, and then stand on eggs lifting weight, then perform the famous “Change of Faceâ€� Shanghai Opera Act.... Another Master will demonstrate instant relief of pain and many more extra-ordinary feats of healing and power.  

Sponsors: East West Academy of Healing Arts, World Qigong Federation, American Qigong Association, American Medical Qigong Association.      Co-Sponsors: Many  including TC Media, Kung Fu Magazine, Pacific Press, NCCAOM, AAOM, AHMA, Campaign for Better Health, Deepak Chopra Center, Friends of Health, ACTCM, AMHA, School of Social Welfare, State University of New York, Stony Brook,  and others.

The Congress is expected to be a springboard for raising funds for Medical Qigong scientific research and part of the proceeds will support Children and Youth for Healing and Peace, as well as the USA Wushu Sports Team to compete in the World Olympics, in Beijing 2008!

Today's world situation, war on terrorism, economic downturn, and health care challenges require more than just a fresh approach. The time has never been better for monumental changes.   The Seventh World Congress on Qigong in San Francisco is a perfect moment to expand our perspectives on health, life, disease and healing and celebrate with like-minded people!

This millennium must focus on healthy lifestyles and better affordable health care. Qigong along with Traditional Chinese Medicine can be a powerful means of achieving this goal. Together we can foster Qigong as a part of the world's life and health care system in which people are given the power to take control of their own health.

 We look forward to seeing you at the Congress!  Call/Email us with any questions.

In Loving Qi and Regards, from Congress Chair and Co-Chairs,  

EFFIE CHOW PhD, RN, LAc, DiplAc (NCCAOM); RUSTUM ROY PhD, USA;  

SHIN LIN PhD, USA; YOSHIO MACHI PhD (Dr. Eng.), Japan

FRANCES BRISBANE PhD, USA; TOM WU MD, PhD, ND, DSc,  USA

STANLEY NGUI Dr. TCM, Dr.Ac, DNM, Qigong Grandmaster, Canada,

ADRIAN FLOREA Qigong Master, Romania; JIAN-DONG ZHANG MD-China

Sampling below from over 40 speakers:

DAVID FELTEN, MD, PhD- Dean, School of Graduate Medical Education, Seton Hall University. “HOW MENTAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL STATES AND MIND/BODY PRACTICES CAN AFFECT THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND INFLUENCE THE RISK OF CHRONIC DISEASES�
EFFIE CHOW, PhD, RN, LAc, DiplAc (NCCAOM), Qigong Grandmaster
Founder and President of East West Academy of Healing Arts Academy, San Francisco, CA. “THE ENERGETICS OF CHOW MEDICAL QIGONG / TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, GIVING HOPE WHERE THERE WAS NONE�
MAY LOO, MD- Assistant Clinical Professor at Stanford Medical Center; Director of a Neurodevelopment Program in Santa Clara County Valley Medical Center Private Practice. Author of East West Healing. “INTEGRATING EAST AND WEST IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (SUBTITLE) THE YELLOW EMPEROR MEETS FREUD AND PIAGET�
TOM WU, MD, PhD, CN, DSc & JANET WU, PhD, ND, DD
Tom is the chairperson of the Wellness Selfcare Center; President of Waitankung Association (USA); member, American Naturopathic Medical Association; Member, National Health Federation, Visiting Professor and Int’l speaker. Janet is the director of the Wellness Selfcare Center; member, American Naturopathic Medical Association; member, St. Mary’s and Sequoia Hospitals, member of National Health Federation and Society of Certified Nutritionists; Visiting Professor and Int’l speaker.
“QIGONG—MEDICATION WITHOUT MEDICINE�
PROFESSOR YONG SI- President of International Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine Qigong, Professor of Qigong at Dougguk-Royal University, Los Angeles, CA. “DEMONSTRATON—INTRODUCTION OF CHI--PULSE THERAPY�
BEVERLY RUBIK, PhD- Professor, Union Institute & University; and President of the Institute for Frontier Science, CA. External Qi was performed by Yong Xiang ZHANG DTCM Qigong Therapy Master, Director of Qigong Master School in Tokyo, Japan, Associate with the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tokyo Denki University, Japan —“ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY OF HUMAN SUBJECTS’ FINGERTIPS PRE-POST EXTERNAL QI TREATMENT�

JIAN-DONG ZHANG, MD (China)—“QIGONG PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE SPIRITUAL, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF SENIORSâ€�—Trained Chinese Liberation Army in Qigong. Chairman of both Taiwan Travelers Hospital and the Red Cross Society of China Hospital; Invited to USA by an organization of American Pharmacists, CA. His focus: treatment of cancer and monitoring health of the elderly, longevity with good health.

SADAO HAYANO, PhD—“QUANTUM GATHERING QI AND DISSIPATIVE BRAIN QI�—Reiki Medical Qigong Therapist, Natural Health Organic Farm, CA.

MELINDA CONNER, PHD—DISTANCE ENERGY TRANSMISSION- supporting the ongoing recovery of a case of T6 Spinal Paraplegia.  A one year retrospective case studyâ€�.

                                    HUI LIU, Qigong Grandmaster, Wen Wu School of Martial Arts – “DAYAN QIGONG UNVEILING THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF MIND AND BODY HEALINGâ€�

East West Academy of Healing Arts (EWAHA) is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization founded in1973 by Dr. Effie Poy Yew Chow, dedicated to integrating holistic Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Modern Western Medicine (MWM) with a special focus on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Qigong. We foster the practice of excellence in promoting optimum health through educational, clinical, and research activities. To do so, we utilize holistic subtle energy healing concepts of Body, Mind, and Spirit connecting with nature. Our goals include bringing the best of health care for all people, giving hope and results for our clients with serious and minor conditions where all else may have previously failed. We celebrate the miracle of life. Our new program, "The International Children and Youth Project for Healing and Peace" will emanate this miracle.

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Sorry for a delayed answer to this question as I am busy with my grants and
works.  I have been conducting scientific study on qigong therapy for
addiction recovery -- both external qi healing and internal qigong therapy
(self-practice), without much funding. Following are some abstracts of my
studies for your information.  Please email me you protocol if you need
detailed suggestions and comments about your study.

1. Li M, Chen K, & Mo ZX, 2002, "Detoxification with qigong therapy for
heroin addicts."  Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. 8(1): 50-59.
Background: Qigong is one of the most effective traditional Chinese medical
treatment systems with special healing and recovery power, but has little
scientific documentation.  We applied both self Qigong practice and
external Qi emission to treat substance addicts, and achieved some
impressive results.   Methods:  Eighty six heroin addicts (all met
DSM-III-R substance dependence criteria) in a mandatory drug rehabilitation
center were randomly assigned into one of the three groups with a 1.5:1
ratio: Qigong treatment group (N=34) practiced Qigong 2 to 2.5 hours per
day, plus received some adjustment by a Qigong master (Qi emission);
medicine comparison group (N=26) took regular detoxification pills
(lofexidine-HCl, 0.2mg) by 10-day gradual reduction method , and control
group (n=26) received basic care only, no medicine.  Blood test, urine
morphine test, ECG test, HAMA scale, and withdrawal symptom evaluation
scale were applied to all pre-treatment and everyday for 10 days during
treatment.
Results: (1) Withdrawal syndrome: Reduction of withdrawal symptoms in
Qigong group went much more rapidly.  From day one, the Qigong group had
significantly lower mean scores than  other two groups (p< .01).  By day
eight, 100% reported no more withdrawal symptoms while other two groups
still reported some at the end of the ten-day study.  (2) Anxiety Symptoms:
Both Qigong and medicine groups had a much lower anxiety score than control
group (p < .01) on the 5th and 10th day of treatment, and the Qigong group
had significantly lower anxiety score than medicine group (p < .01).  The
Qigong group also reported much more rapid improvement in sleep time and
quality.  (3) Urine morphine test:  All subjects had positive response to
the urine test before treatment.  On the third day, 50% of the Qigong group
became negative in urine tests, while only 23% in control group and 8% in
medicine group did so (p < .01). By the 5th day of treatment, all 34
patients in Qigong group became negative in urine test, while the control
group did so by the 11th day, and medicine group by the 9th day.
Conclusion: Qigong can effectively treat heroin addiction.  This treatment
is a safe and effective way for detoxification, and possibly for
rehabilitation, with long-term effect but with low cost or no side effects.

2.  Benefits of External Qigong Therapy on Morphine-Abstinent Mice and Rats
ZHIXIAN MO, MD, Ph.D. KEVIN W. CHEN, Ph.D., MPH., WENWEI OU, A.A., and MING
LI, BS
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine,  9(6), 2003, pp.
827–835.
ABSTRACT
Objective: To effectively exclude possible psychological effects of qigong
therapy in the treatment of addiction, morphine?dependence models need to
be established in mice and rats.
Method: The effects of external qi on withdrawal syndrome were examined in
naloxone?precipitated mice and rats in three randomized control
experiments: Naloxone precipitated test in morphine?dependent mice (n=100
in 5 groups and 20 mice each group); conditioned position preference test
in morphine-abstinent mice (n=30 for 3 groups, 10 each); and naloxone
precipitated test with paired box in morphine-dependent rats (n=40 for 4
groups, 10 each).
Results: These experiments showed that, morphine-dependent mice, after
external qigong (EQ) therapy, had decreased incidence of jumping and
lowered jumping frequencies, and attenuated loss of body weight.  After EQ
therapy, morphine-dependent rats had reduced withdrawal scores and body
weight loss was inhibited.  In the conditioned place preference test, the
time spent in the drug?paired box was significantly shorter for the qigong
group than for the morphine group.
Conclusion: These results suggest that qigong might have an inhibitory
effect on withdrawal syndrome, and reduce the dependence potential in mice.
  Three different designs confirm that the impact of qigong therapy on
morphine?abstinent mice and rats is reliable and substantial.  Further
research on the effectiveness and the mechanism of qigong therapy on
addiction is war-ranted.

3.  A Pilot Study of Introducing Qi-Meditation Therapy into Addiction
Treatment
Kevin W Chen, Ph.D. MPH,  Douglas M. Ziedonis, M.D. MPH, Tony Comerford, Ph.D.
Phillip Shinnick, Ph.D. (Manuscript in preparation).
ABSTRACT
Objectives: to explore the possibility that the benefits of practicing
qigong as a component of addiction treatment suggested in Chinese studies
can be generalized to an American population.
Method: A pilot trial introduced daily qigong meditation to a residential
addiction treatment center, where 120 clients (1/3 alcoholics and 2/3
cocaine or heroin addicts) participated in either qigong meditation or a
standard relaxation exercise (control group) twice everyday during their
scheduled treatment program.  Weekly questionnaires were administered to
all clients to monitor their improvement over time in withdrawal, craving,
anxiety, depressive symptoms and general health, as well as the quality of
qigong meditation.
Results: There were no differences in the outcome measures and motivation
for quitting among the groups at baseline.  Those who practiced
qi-meditation occasionally or daily, without called for compliance, showed
no difference from those who did not practice qigong at all; those who
practiced qi-meditation daily, with basic compliance, showed more reduction
in craving, anxiety, withdrawal and depressive symptoms than the control,
or less compliant groups, and demonstrated significant improvement over the
trial period.
Conclusion: While far from conclusive, the evidence suggests that qigong
meditation may be a valuable addition to the current addiction treatment
program, and can be especially beneficial for those entering treatment with
more distress.

Kevin Chen

At 09:45 AM 10/7/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Anyone work with addicts using Qigong systems in the past?
>
>I'm in the process of launching an authentically
>holistic heroin addict recovery program through a
>501(c)3 corporation I created.
>
>One of the conceptual "bridges" unifying the discrete
>practices found in the Physical-Mental-Spiritual
>domains is Chi Kung.
>
>I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has past
>experience in using Chi Kung methods as an adjunct therapy or
>protocol when treating addiction disorders.
>

Kevin W Chen, Ph.D. MPH
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
     University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
President, World Institute for Self-Healing, Inc. (WISH)
http://www.wishus.org
Tel: 732-235-4345    Fax: 732-235-5818
Email: chenke@...

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I would appreciate information on the best ways to measure the body's
emf or subtle energies.

Thank you.
Linda Lazarus

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=387832

Thank you Linda Lazarus for the pubmed link to the qigong experiment.  These
are the kind of experiments with rigor that must be done to establish
legitimacy to qigong healing projection.  Everything else is anecdotal.

However, the one part I find puzzling and disturbing about these studies is,
as the authors found, the lack of reproducibility.  I'd like to hear others'
opinions regarding the results.
Ken Gray

>   Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:09:48 -0500
>   From: Linda Lazarus <lindalazarus@...>
> Subject: In vitro test of external Qigong
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Dear researchers,
I've read your comments on "In vitro test of external Qigong" with great
interest and would like to suggest an explanation to the not consistent
results.
I've suggested couple of years ago that the gas Nitric Oxide is the carreir
of qi, e.g.
http://www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk/journal/1999dec/12.shtml
If indeed so than it will be influenced by numerous environmental changes
that could affect the data, It will be interesting to influence it on
purpose and demonstrate such relations.
I am enclosing my recent article which was just submitted for publication
and will appreciate your comments.
Yours
Dina

Dr. Dina Ralt
Integrative Health Coach - IGL
Tl: 972-3-5224750
Cellular: 054-6623010
ICQ: 7967080

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Thank you Linda Lazarus for the pubmed link to the qigong experiment.  These

are the kind of experiments with rigor that must be done to establish
legitimacy to qigong healing projection.  Everything else is anecdotal.

However, the one part I find puzzling and disturbing about these studies is,

as the authors found, the lack of reproducibility.  I'd like to hear others'

opinions regarding the results.
Ken Gray

>   Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:09:48 -0500
>   From: Linda Lazarus <lindalazarus@...>
> Subject: In vitro test of external Qigong
>
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Hi,

Dina's theory is very interesting. Hope that one day it can be tested in
laboratory or other conditions.  I have some reservation about the
assumption of Qi.

First, external qigong therapy is not completely about qi, or emission of
something physical, it is about both qi and yi (intention or
consciousness).  Without appropriate intention or yi, the same qi can be
used to accelerate or inhibit cell growth.  One of important elements in
qigong practice is training of yi, to be able to concentrate on one thing
or nothing for a long time....

Second, The key to achieve reproducibility in study of external qi is to
use the same healer at the same condition repeatedly.  Please see the
reproducibility of my studies with one healer:

http://www.wishus.org/research.asp?cat=research&index=9

http://www.wishus.org/research.asp?cat=research&index=1

However, even with the same healer, I had problem reproducing the results
months later as the conditions changed (the healer tried to quit smoking
during the second trial). If you use different healers at different times,
you may have problems in one of the following aspects of external qigong
limitation, no matter how many trials you are going to perform:

1) Not all qigong practitioners know how to emit external qi.  A good
qigong practitioner or a qualified instructor is not necessarily a good
qigong healer who can emit qi.

2) Not all qigong masters or healers are the same, different training or
background may affect their healing ability.

3) Not all qigong masters know how to emit qi effectively unless he or she
has been trained to do so with a lot of practice.

4) For specific experiment, the healer needs time to be trained to perform
the designed study or action consistently, since he or she may forget what
intention he/she used in the previous trial, and use a different intention
that may produce a different result.

5) In order to reproduce the previous experiment result, the researcher
need to take detailed notes on what were involved in both physically and
psychologically, and encourage the healer to do the same, and replicate
immediately before repeating the same study at a later time point.
Especially at the in-vitro or in-vivo study, the healer does not have the
direct intuitional communication with the subject, like he did in patient
healing, he/she needs some established "protocol" to follow in order to
achieve the same "healing" or "affected" result.

6) If multiple healers are required in the study, try to use the healers
from the same qigong school or tradition, or being trained by the same
master so as to minimize the variations due to different qigong training.

Qigong is not created for external use, even although study of external qi
will help us understanding this human subtle energy within. We have very
limited resource involved in qigong study, and we have very few qualified
qigong healers who can effectively emit qi in the laboratory situation.
Therefore, I hope that we will use our resource carefully and effectively.
My review of measuring external qi in China may offer you some insight on
this issue:

http://www.wishus.org/researchpapers/Waiqianalysis.pdf

Please feel free to comment and make suggestions.

Kevin Chen

At 07:36 AM 12/6/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear researchers,
>I've read your comments on "In vitro test of external Qigong" with great
>interest and would like to suggest an explanation to the not consistent
>results.
>I've suggested couple of years ago that the gas Nitric Oxide is the carreir
>of qi, e.g.
>http://www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk/journal/1999dec/12.shtml
>
>If indeed so that it will be influenced by numerous environmental changes
>that could affect the data, It will be interesting to influence it on
>purpose and demonstrate such relations.
>I am enclosing my recent article which was just submitted for publication
>and will appreciate your comments.
>Yours
>Dina
>
>Dr. Dina Ralt
>Integrative Health Coach - IGL
>Tl: 972-3-5224750
>Cellular: 054-6623010
>ICQ: 7967080
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Gray [mailto:Kgray2@...]
>Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 6:19 AM
>To: qiresearch@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [qiresearch] Digest Number 365
>
>Thank you Linda Lazarus for the pubmed link to the qigong experiment.  These
>
>are the kind of experiments with rigor that must be done to establish
>legitimacy to qigong healing projection.  Everything else is anecdotal.
>
>However, the one part I find puzzling and disturbing about these studies is,
>
>as the authors found, the lack of reproducibility.  I'd like to hear others'
>
>opinions regarding the results.
>Ken Gray


Kevin W Chen, Ph.D. MPH
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
     University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
President, World Institute for Self-Healing, Inc. (WISH)
http://www.wishus.org
Tel: 732-235-4345    Fax: 732-235-5818
Email: chenke@...

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>>I would appreciate information on the best ways to
measure the body's
emf or subtle energies.

Thank you.
Linda Lazarus <<

Linda Lazarus,

Many of present technology can monitor manifestation
of 'subtle energies' at the physical level but we are
not sure what we are looking for! If you mean to say,
let us monitor qi, prana, etc then it will be
difficult since we do not know how to identify it.

Increase in hand temperature (loagong?) is one
indicator,
we can use EEG to distinguish a range that alpha and
theta waves/readings dominate (distinguished from a
good practitioner to a better practitioner), PET (to
monitor what aras of brain may register 'some effect'
that would faciliatte a level of qi healing; EMG (to
measure noise in muscle areas and degree of
relaxation),
oximeter (meausring oxygen in blood-does qigoing allow
for better oxygen utilization?),

HeartMathInstitute has been a premier organization in
quantifying and simplify what at times in qigong may
seem 'burdensome'.

I have linked the HeartMathInstitute. They have pdf of
some research that I find apropos.
Much of instrumentation is readily available and
'common' but the essence is the heart/mind complex
(nervous system/sympathetic/parasympathetic) that
translates musch of information processing and how we
interpret these messages.


http://www.heartmath.org/research/research-overview.html

This link has some background resaerch and the
distinction between infrasonic, infratonic,
electromagnetic, etc. Rfeerence is for a macjine:

http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html



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Hello, what is your name?

I am also amazed at this program. I went and ordered their Freeze Frame
   because I notice that there are alot of people out there who do not
understand caring, appreciation or stress/relaxation to begin with. I
have found it extreamly helpful in taking relaxation itself a few
notches up as well as my ability to use my creativity and problem solving.

THe information garnered on this work is huge.  It is definately hooked
into some fasinating research as well as extensive usefulness and the
way they have begun to spread the techniques to many people and
institutes has been amazing to me; teaching kids/ enhancing problem
solving/ health-- yours and my field!  A guy named Stephen Bruhner has
used this information in a vastly different field altogether and his
discussion of the research is well worth the read.  "The Secret Teaching
of Plants" is the name of the book.  He is an herbalist.

I'de love to talk with you about just the findings of this group.

Rozz

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>>>I would appreciate information on the best ways to
>
> measure the body's
> emf or subtle energies.
>
> Thank you.
> Linda Lazarus <<
>
> Linda Lazarus,
>
> Many of present technology can monitor manifestation
> of 'subtle energies' at the physical level but we are
> not sure what we are looking for! If you mean to say,
> let us monitor qi, prana, etc then it will be
> difficult since we do not know how to identify it.
>
> Increase in hand temperature (loagong?) is one
> indicator,
> we can use EEG to distinguish a range that alpha and
> theta waves/readings dominate (distinguished from a
> good practitioner to a better practitioner), PET (to
> monitor what aras of brain may register 'some effect'
> that would faciliatte a level of qi healing; EMG (to
> measure noise in muscle areas and degree of
> relaxation),
> oximeter (meausring oxygen in blood-does qigoing allow
> for better oxygen utilization?),
>
> HeartMathInstitute has been a premier organization in
> quantifying and simplify what at times in qigong may
> seem 'burdensome'.
>
> I have linked the HeartMathInstitute. They have pdf of
> some research that I find apropos.
> Much of instrumentation is readily available and
> 'common' but the essence is the heart/mind complex
> (nervous system/sympathetic/parasympathetic) that
> translates musch of information processing and how we
> interpret these messages.
>
>
> http://www.heartmath.org/research/research-overview.html
>
> This link has some background resaerch and the
> distinction between infrasonic, infratonic,
> electromagnetic, etc. Rfeerence is for a macjine:
>
> http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html
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To Kevin & All:  Would love your responses to my problem. Been
enjoying qigong for a short time,but according to an excellent qigong
teacher,Master He of 5 elememt qigong,anyone with an implanted metal
part in body should not practice his qigong.  I was treated for
prostate cancer 6 years with brachytherapy (radiation seeds with
small piece of silver within each seed for the radiation that
follows) Thanks to my treatment at RCOG,I'll completely cured but now
wondering if I should stop the practice of qigong or are ther certain
exercises I still might do?  I now do a simple qigong called Pan Gu
which seems to work form the outside in and very relaxing. Someone
said that falun dafa works on the outside of the body first? Would
love the wisdom from all of you on any energy system that I could do?
Thanks & Blessings     Lawrence

Dear Lawrence,

Happy Holidays!

According to my consultant with master He, an implant of radiation seed in
a non-critical location should not be a problem for you to practice Taiji
Five-Element Qigong since we have some students in the similar situation
who have achieved significant improvement through self practice of qigong,
since qigong can reduce the side effect of radiation, and rapidly rebuild
the immune system that is the key to defeat cancer.  The reason that those
patients with metal implant are not appropriate to practice qigong is that
the rapidly boosted immune system may soon reject the foreign part in the
body (the implant) and to create serious pain for the patient, but the
small piece of implant for radiation does not have such a problem.  One way
to verify this is to check if your doctor gave you any medicine to suppress
your immune system to avoid rejection.  My guess is probably not so.

As to other forms of qigong, it is not appropriate for me to discuss them
at this forum.  As far as I know, , qigong is a self-training method or
process in which qi (vital energy) and yi (mind or intention) are
cultivated through adjustment of body posture, breathing and mentality to
achieve the optimal state of both body and mind. It is very hard for me to
imagine a form of genuine qigong working from outside in.

All best wishes for your inquiry of qigong therapy.

Kevin Chen

At 04:21 PM 12/22/2004 +0000, lascottca wrote:
>To Kevin & All:  Would love your responses to my problem. Been
>enjoying qigong for a short time,but according to an excellent qigong
>teacher,Master He of 5 elememt qigong,anyone with an implanted metal
>part in body should not practice his qigong.  I was treated for
>prostate cancer 6 years with brachytherapy (radiation seeds with
>small piece of silver within each seed for the radiation that
>follows) Thanks to my treatment at RCOG,I'll completely cured but now
>wondering if I should stop the practice of qigong or are ther certain
>exercises I still might do?  I now do a simple qigong called Pan Gu
>which seems to work form the outside in and very relaxing. Someone
>said that falun dafa works on the outside of the body first? Would
>love the wisdom from all of you on any energy system that I could do?
>Thanks & Blessings     Lawrence
>
>

I would appreciate information concerning the treatment of ADD with
acupuncture or qigong.

Thank you.
Linda Lazarus

Greetings, everyone!

This is my first post in this group. I am a Brazillian physician and I
an planning a trip to China for the secon half of 2005.I intend to spend
at least two years studying there, so I woul really apreciate if you
could send me the addresses or contacts of the best Qi Gong and
Traditional Chinese Medicine schools there.

Yours,
David Veiga Calado