Report on 21 cases of kidney diseases treated by qigong

Author: Lu Guangjun//Tu Renshun
Affiliation:
Qigong Dept, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China [1]
Conference/Journal: 2nd World Conf Acad Exch Med Qigong
Date published: 1993
Other: Pages: 127 , Word Count: 419


Such diseases as chronic primary glomerulonephritis, lgA nephrosis, chronic nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and renal failure in modern medicine are generally categorized under the heading of kidney diseases in TCM. The feature of the mechanism of such diseases is the excessiveness in the exterior with deficiency root cause, and neither modern medicine nor TCM has particular effective therapy and drugs for them. From October l988 to August 1992, the ward of our department admitted and observed 21 cases of such diseases. All of them had been diagnosed through renal puncture biopsy before being hospitalized in our ward with accurate diagnosis. Modern medicine and TCM had been applied to them without any significant effect. Among them, the case history ranged from 9 months to 18 years, and the age of the patients was from 20 to 68. There were 11 men and 10 women. Diagnosis and evaluation of the qigong treatment applied to them has been done based upon the standards of diagnosis and curative effects of kidney diseases formulated respectively by the Committee of Internal Medicine, China Association of TCM and Practical , Internal Medicine, 8th edition. During the hospitalization, those who had long taken hormones were instructed to reduce the dose gradually. For some patients with exogenous pathogenic factors, qigong treatment was applied with the assistance of medicine. The patients practiced qigong by themselves lasting from 3 to 7 hours every day. The emitted qi treatment was made subsidiary, and it took 20 minutes every day. The course of treatment was from 6 to 12 months. After the patients were discharged from the hospital, investigation in the clinic into each of them was made every two months and it lasted from 6 months to 3 years.

Results: According to the standards of classification of TCM, marked progress is shown in 52.4% of all the cases. 19% of the cases improved, and thus the effective rate is as high as 71.4%; according to the standards of modern medicine .these figures are 53.3%, 23.3% and 76.6%, respectively. Such conclusion is drawn from the above facts that qigong treatment has better effect over western medicine and TCM in dealing with kidney diseases.

Through clinic analysis, it is found that the average time it takes to get significant effect in all the indexes in observation is 112 days, and so it is better to take four months as one course of qigong treatment for kidney diseases. And in addition, qigong therapy, as a kind of comprehensive treatment, can both strengthen the patients' resistance and dispel the invading pathogenic factors, and it is most suitable for chronic patients with excessiveness in the exterior with deficiency root cause.

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