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Qi Dao June/July 2006 Qi Dao Qi = vital energy, link of yin-yang; Dao = law behind everything June/July 2006 Qi Dao, the monthly E-newsletter of World Institute for Self H...

Qi Dao June/July 2006 Qi Dao Qi = vital energy, link of yin-yang; Dao = law behind everything June/July 2006 Qi Dao, the monthly E-newsletter of World Institute for Self Healing, Inc. (WISH: http://www.wishus.org), promotes philosophy and methods of human self-healing and mind power, and shares knowledge and experiences with those who are interested in human self-healing and consciousness power and their applications in health and healing. It is FREE to WISH members, and to those who are interested in the subjects. All contributions are welcome. From the Editor… In This Issue… A number of years ago, I had become ill with Tetanus – a rather scary illness. It was due to a dormant vaccination – not an encounter with open wounds, x Research Updates etc. Nevertheless, it took me over a year to totally be relieved of the x From the Master symptoms. My sister, who cannot work, and I lived on my retirement x Illuminating the Dao income for that time. Since I was not 591/2 I paid large penalties in taxes. x Methods of Better Meditation As a result we could not afford to pay our rent and received an eviction x Citation of the Month notice. From the moment we received it, I told my sister – not one negative thought –not one. We must keep positive. x Qigong Practice x Practical Methods of Self Friends came almost every day to help us pack. They would bring lunch or Healing dinner and we would laugh a lot. We had two people say that we could x Power of the Mind temporarily move in with them and we had scheduled the movers. Three x Food as Medicine days before we had to be out, the movers cancelled. Two days before, our x A Comedy Moment temporary rooms were no longer available. We did everything we could to x What’s New at WISH remain positive, repeating over and over again – “we have a place to live.” We each talked to a friend; one said she would have to talk to her husband, the other said he would have to talk to his wife. The day before we had to move, both responded with a yes, you can come. We chose the closest place, about 18 miles away. We were truly blessed. We were given a mansion to live in for a year. There are two things which I credit for this gift: 1) the power of positive thinking and 2) the power of friendship. We all have these gifts available it us. To make use of them and to see their outcomes is an incredible challenge. Give it a try!!! ________________________________________________________________ The World Institute for Self-Healing (WISH) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting self-healing and mind power through medical qigong via research, education, exploration of new frontiers and practical applications. We would like to work closely with all those who are interested in human self-healing and mind power and its applications in health and healing to form a self-healing movement. Welcome to the Qi Dao newsletter! We wish you a growing experience of self-healing. If you like what you read, please share Qi Dao with others. You are invited to submit articles and comments to the Qi Dao Newsletter. It is a newsletter on mind power and self-healing, and all who have information or a perspective that they would like to share may contribute. We ask that you meet the following requirements: 1500 word maximum, MSWord format. Send in before the 10th of the month. Include your name, address, email address and a telephone number where you can be reached. Articles should be sent to [email protected]. x You are welcome to share Qi Dao with your friends. x To subscribe to Qi Dao, send an email to [email protected]. x To contribute to Qi Dao or contact us, please email to [email protected]. 1 Qi Dao June/July 2006 [Research Updates] Following are a few abstracts from the Fifth World Medical Qigong Symposium (Beijing, June 26-28, 2006). x Physiological Effects of Respiration Method of Inner Qigong – MACHI and Liu (Japan) Qigong has a long history in China and has been used to maintain health and treat diseases since ancient time. Nowadays, fast development of western medicine and other healthcare methods provide effective ways to maintain heath and treat diseases. However, people are still seeking a way to be healthy and long-life without adding load to body. Qigong, as the essence of Chinese traditional medicine, attracts people all over the world. In Japan, Qigong has become a subject of national research and practice as a part of the combined medicine (western medicine and traditional medicine). For the Japanese, herbs and acupuncture are relatively easy to understand because they are somewhat similar to methods of western medicine. However, they are confused about why and how Qigong may maintain health and what effects Qigong may produce. We have carried out research on Qigong on the stance of scientific concept. The number of researchers on Qigong in Japan is increasing and people's understanding of Qigong is deepening. We will describe one of the most importance concepts of Qigong here - The Three Adjustment (i.e. Adjustment of Posture, Adjustment of Respiration and Adjustment of Mental Activities). Our focus of discussion will be Adjustment of Respiration. And we will report some physiologic effects of Qigong produced by 2 to 3 Inner Qigong on the basis of physiology. Standing Posture Qigong: Standing Posture Qigong is a complex method of Qigong based on multiple methods. Fig.1 shows data of brainwaves, brain terrain chart and physical data besides body infrared data. The abdominal that conducts Adjustment of Respiration is very attractive. Its respiration activity is totally different from that before the practice of Qigong. For the still time before the practice of Qigong, there are 15-16 shallow respiration activities a minute. When Standing Posture Qigong is started, numbers of respiration activities are significantly increasing and vibration amplitude of abdominal is also increasing. Abdominal pressure meter shows an abdomen pressure of 3kPa. This status keeps repeated in the practice of Standing Posture Qigong. When staying still, carbon dioxide density of nasal respiration is 4%, wile the number increases to 6% in practice of Standing Posture Qigong, representing that inner movements of the body are increasing. At the same, due to the status change of abdominal respiration, electric potential on R point of cardiogram is influenced by abdominal respiration. For normal respiration, this influence is not evident. For proper practice of Standing Posture Qigong, the change of electric potential on R point is synchronized with abdominal respiration. See Fig.1. Analysis shows that the peak value for 0.05-0.15Hz is LF and the peak value for 0.15-0. 30Hz is HF. LF/HF is the dynamic representation parameter of autonomic nervous system. The result show that activities of sympathetic nerve increase in practice of Standing Posture Qigong. The ration of LF/HF of Qigong masters is 10 times higher than common persons, representing that Standing Posture Qigong is an effective method to regulate autonomic nervous system. Fig.2 shows increasing of blood flowing through neck artery and glabella in practice of Standing Posture Qigong. Increase of blood flowing through brains may prevent aging of brains for aged people. The figure also shows that oxygen density of blood declines in practice of Qigong. Decline of oxygen density means increase of oxygen consumption. Inhaling fresh oxygen may produce overall positive effects for body. The figure does not give a chart on blood pressure. However, blood pressure may increase when autonomic nervous system is active. For aged people, too strong nerve stimulation may produce cerebrovascular damages. Therefore, Standing Posture Qigong must be practiced properly. Six-Word-Practice See Fig.4 and Fig.5 for physical examination results for Six-Word-Practice. Six-Word-Practice is a unique method of Qigong as people make sounds in the practice. Compared with Standing Posture Qigong, the number of heartbeats will increase when making sounds. The figures show shat making sounds are closely related with abdominal respiration. Potential value of R point in cardiogram has not apparent changes when people keep still. However, the value increases significantly with sounds in practice of Six-Work-Practice. See Fig.6. Blood flow through neck artery increase with making sound. The flow of flood is not corresponding to the strength of sound. Increase of blood flow is not very significant for "He". The third word "Hu" is not stronger than "He", but the increase of blood flow is much higher. For "Chui", both the sound and the increase of blood flow are high. Additionally, the maximum blood pressure in practice of Six-Word-Practice is over 160 mmHg, higher than that of Standing Posture Qigong. Although the maximum blood pressure is higher than that of Standing Posture Qigong, 2 Qi Dao June/July 2006 the duration of increase of blood pressure in shorter, which will not bring addition load for aged people. The examination of Six-Word-Practice shows shat oxygen density in blood of end blood vessels keeps decreasing. The decreasing happens in practice of "Chui" and "Xi", showing that the load is much higher in the short time. Cycle change of respiration is synchronized with cycle change of oxygen density in blood of end blood vessels, meaning that level of practice may reflect the coordination level of inner respiration and outer respiration. Fig. 6 shows data similarity of Standing Posture Qigong, Six-Word-Practice, ZhanZhuang without making sounds, Six-Word-Practice with making sounds, abdominal respiration, heartbeats and cardiogram. Nei-Yang GONG: This method of Qigong is created by Liu Guizhen of Bei Dai He on the basis of absorbing some folk Qigong methods. NEY YANG GONG includes two respiration methods: soft (1) respiration and hard (2) respiration. See Fig.7 for physical data. Soft respiration is a process of inhaling-exhaling-stopping. See the figure for the maximum value of blood pressure. As soft respiration delays inhaling, the increase of blood pressure is delayed. Therefore, through repeated practice of soft respiration, blood pressure may be decreased. Hard respiration is a process of inhaling- stopping-exhaling. Different locations of stooping respiration may prevent blood pressure decreasing, so as to increase blood pressure. Fig.8 shows the results for a rather long time examination. The maximum value (the upper limit) represents maximum blood pressure, while the lower limit represents the minimum blood pressure. The figures shows that soft breaking increase maximum blood pressure value while hare respiration decrease maximum blood pressure value. The figure also shows that number of heartbeats is not varied from number of abdominal respiration. But for nasal respiration, the different is obvious. The temperature change of nasal respiration in practice of soft respiration shows that the inner body temperature has limited increase, while the temperature change of nasal respiration in practice of hared respiration shows that the inner body temperature has significant increase, meaning the increase of inner activities. Fig. 9 shows LF/HF status of autonomic nervous system for NEY YANG GONG. The average value of LF/HF for soft respiration is 2.5, while that for hard respiration is 3. Activity density of sympathetic nerve in practice of hard respiration is higher than that of soft respiration. Nei-Yang Gong present effects on adjustment of hypertension and hypotension. It may solve some blood pressure problems especially for patients who need to take medicine for long time. Conclusion: The report describes physical effects of some traditional practice methods of Qigong. May Japanese people believe that taking medicine is the most effective method for recovering from diseases. The healthcare effects of Qigong still need to be illuminated on the basis of scientific data. Introducing Qigong widely is helpful. People shall choose to take medicines or practice Qigong according to their actual conditions. Through long time of observing on people practicing Qigong, we have concluded an evaluation standard of practice. The standard may be helpful for those who want to learn Qigong. We will continue to provide reliable technical theory for practice of Qigong through conducting physical examination. Fig.1 Physiological Data due to Abdominal Respiration at Standing Posture Qigong 3 Qi Dao June/July 2006 x The Effect of the External Qi of Qi-Gong on the Heartbeat of the Toad -- Deying Chu, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. The effect of the External Qi of Qigong (EQQ) on the isolated and perfuse toad heart was investigated by monitoring the change of cardiogram for heartbeat with a bio-information collector RM6240. The changes of intensity and rhythm of the heartbeat were measured to test how External Qi affects the heartbeat. 12 Qigong masters took part in the experiments with in total 117 sessions. 6 volunteers participated in 39 sessions of contrast and simulated experiments. The results demonstrated that the External Qi of Qigong had a distinct effect on the cardiogram of the toad heart including strengthening the intensity and rhythm or abating them with two-way regulation. Eliminating intermission for heartbeat EQQ makes the heart return to its normal rhythm. EQQ can revive the heart on the verge of death to beat again. x The Effect of Baduanjin to the Function of Human Cardio-Vascular -- Li Yuhuan, Li Dongjun, Zhang Haibo, Hou Beichen (Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion , Beijing University of Chinese Medicine We recruited some college students and trained them to practice Baduanjin. Then we monitored systematically six kinds of physical indications. They were blood pressure, electrocardiogram, pulse pressure, degree of oxygen saturation of blood, temperature of the limbs ending skin, the delaying time between heart beat and pulse, and do some contrast experiments, using multi-parameters recording device. At last, we got the data that Baduanjin could improve the body's cardio-vascular function and discuss its effect to the human's cardio-vascular function made by practicing Baduanjin. The result has showed that after 10 weeks' concentrative training, there were some effects to the students in the experimental group, such as the electrocardiogram, the degree of blood oxygen saturation, the temperature of the ending skin, the delaying time from the heart beat to pulse. Statistical significance could be found in these data (P