(Minghui.org) Before beginning Falun Gong cultivation practice, I couldn't go on for a month without needing medicine. I have been going to hospitals since I was young. My uncle was a doctor and I was his frequent patient. When I was growing up, all the major hospitals had my records. Even when I was not on any medication, I relied on health foods, vitamins, and herb medicine to keep myself going. A friend laughed at me saying that my body was like a dumpster. A relative said, “It is easier for you to tell people which of your organ is good than to tell them which are bad.”
I often heard thundering noises in the left side of my head. My eyes often became dry and sore, and I could read for only a few minutes at a time. I had sinus problems, so my nostrils needed to be washed with salt water every day. My throat had an infection from frequent speaking as a teacher, and my heartbeat was irregular from time to time. The worst was my digestive system. It was so painful that I often tossed and turned in bed during my high school years. I constantly had diarrhea and needed bathroom visits at least three to four times a day. My rectum often hurt. I had a problem walking. The doctor said that I had congenital abnormality of the hip, and that I would need surgery sooner or later. There were two segments in my spine that caused me pain, and the aching of my entire back made it hard to fall asleep. I bought a $1500 massage chair so I could be a bit more comfortable.
My immune system had problems too. One day, one of my middle fingers swelled, and then the other one as well. Then my ankle swelled. Both of my hands also became numb and lost feeling. I could not sleep well at night, and needed to use the restroom four to five times every night.
With so many illnesses, no doctor could cure me. I could only deal with whatever problems bothered me most at the time. But the side effects often caused me other problems. I found that the medicines could only help with my symptoms, but weren't able to cure me. I decided to abandon Western medicine, and I went to see a Chinese herb doctor. I bought many nutritious herb supplements such as ginseng, astragalus, and wolfberry. Actually, to find a capable herb doctor was not easy. They could not diagnose my illnesses. They only followed my descriptions to prescribe medicine.
I began learning foot massage and did exercises. I jogged and climbed mountains on the weekends. I was rather persistent. I ran 2.5 miles four times a week and won first prize in a 1500 meter marathon. I climbed mountains for about seven to eight years, and did strenuous exercises for about thirteen years. I took all sorts of health supplements, including ginseng, astragalus, wolfberry, vitamins, and propolis. To enhance my blood circulation, I followed a friend's suggestion to drink liquor every day and later became somewhat addicted to it.
My health had some improvement. The time between my episodes of colds increased from one to two months to between three and four months, my muscles were stronger, and I was more energetic. But I found later that no matter how hard I exercised, my internal illnesses persisted, and the aches all over my body did not improve at all. Even with the foot massage, which reduced my dependency on medicine considerably, my illnesses were not cured. I thought that being a human meant I was doomed to suffer, and I returned to my old way of treating symptoms.
July 1, 2002 was a turning point in my life. Through a colleague’s introduction to Falun Gong, I finally began to cultivate. Within a month of practicing, I felt my health had much improved. Many of my illnesses disappeared without my paying attention. Falun Dafa gave me a second life. By cultivating xinxing and doing the exercises, my body changed dramatically. I also realized the true meaning of life and the purpose of human existence, as well as how one should go through the journey of life, leading a conscientious life. One will be truly healthy, calm, and relaxed. I initially told people excitedly that I had not needed any medicine for one to two years. It has now been almost ten years since I have touched any medicine. Such a miracle can only be realized by true cultivation.
My mind is now clear every day. I no longer hear the thundering noise, and my eyes are no longer dry. I once read continuously for five hours on an airplane and did not feel tired at all. My nose and throat are alright now, and my stomach is normal. I can eat anything I want. The numbness in my hands and the back ache are gone, and my massage chair has become useless. In the past, I had a hard time falling asleep, but now I fall asleep in less than a minute. It is no wonder that Teacher said this is something that you cannot buy for millions of dollars.
My eldest son had tuberculosis during his senior year in college. After taking medicine for two and a half months, he stopped, since he began to cultivate Falun Gong. In another month, his health improved a great deal. He gained weight and his facial tone improved. The hospital examined him and found that he was completely healed. My daughter had severe allergy with congested sinuses, and she needed medication to keep her asthma in control. She began cultivating Falun Gong nine years ago, and medication has not since been needed.
In Taiwan, the Health Insurance Bureau loses hundreds of millions of NT (30 NT=US$1) each year.
The fact that people become prone to sickness due the polluted environment, the deterioration of the moral standards of doctors, and the general public are also factors. I know of doctors who cheat the system by using the health card of their relatives to get fees without performing the services. I once told a doctor that I had not used my health card in nine years due to practicing Falun Gong. He surprised me by asking to borrow my health card to use it. I told him that one would be heavenly punished by doing bad deeds, and that Falun Gong practitioners have high moral standards and would never do such things. Some doctors or dentists perform unnecessary procedures. Some people like to get as much medicine as they can since it is free, and some will get lots of health supplements. No wonder the Health Insurance Bureau is losing money.
Falun Gong practitioners help the country save huge amounts of medical expenses. Three people in my household could have incurred a lot of expense for medical care. There are many more practitioners in Taiwan like us who do not need to see doctors and have not used their health cards in the past ten years. Even if they did, the number of times they used it would have been much lower than that of the common person. Falun Gong practitioners follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. They will never try to take advantage of the system by improper means. I suggest that the Health Insurance Bureau collect all the health cards of practitioners, show them to the general public, and award the Falun Dafa Association. They should encourage people to cultivate Falun Gong for good health, a nice family, and a harmonious society.
One cannot completely describe the benefits of Falun Gong in words. Some people may wonder why the Chinese government want to suppress it. As a matter of fact, we cannot use our way of thinking to understand the Chinese Communist regime. It is a completely different social system. In spite of its appearance of being a prosperous society, the fundamental nature of China has not changed. I remember a fellow practitioner who had asked a foreigner wishing to learn Falun Gong, “Why do you still want to learn Falun Gong given that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is suppressing it?” His answer was interesting, “I came just because the CCP is suppressing it.”
The reason that the CCP suppresses Falun Gong is because within merely seven years, from 1992 to 1999, there were close to one hundred million people learning Falun Gong. Numerous practitioners appeared everywhere around China. Jiang Zemin was deeply jealous and afraid that his power would be threatened. He dispatched many spies to “learn Falun Gong” in 1996, hoping to find something wrong with it. But the spies found nothing. Some of them even began to truly cultivate. In 1990, Jiang’s jealousy reached its limit, and he started the savage persecution on July 20. He declared that “beating to death will be counted as suicide,” and that “one did not need to follow the law in treating Falun Gong practitioners.” Persecutors used the most barbaric and cruel measures. They shocked the practitioners’ genitals with electric batons to the extent that they were burned and smashed, they stripped female practitioners and threw them into male cells, they scorched practitioners, and they force-fed practitioners and thrust the tube back and forth through their nostrils. Jiang Zemin devoted one quarter of the national wealth to suppress Falun Gong. The media of the entire country was ordered to publish fabricated false stories to incite hatred against Falun Gong, claiming that practitioners committed suicide, homicide, and conned people for money. The persecution has lasted over ten years. The number of practitioners confirmed to have been killed have reached 3325. There are over a hundred thousand practitioners who have been put in psychiatric hospitals and given forced injections with nerve-damaging drugs. Several hundred thousand practitioners are still imprisoned and jailed. Even more are being forced to stay away from their homes. They have lost their families, earnings, and jobs. Their children were also persecuted since the CCP is punishing them by association.
Each time I see pictures of practitioners persecuted to death that were smuggled out of China by someone who had risked his life, I feel extremely sad, and disbelieve that people can be so cruel. Worse is the CCP’s harvesting organs from living practitioners. Falun Gong practitioners are a group of nice people. The price they pay for being good people is so heavy. This is also the reason why we sue Jiang Zemin overseas. Some people asked me why Falun Gong people were involved in politics. My answer is that we have never been involved in politics. Our Teacher said during the early days that Falun Gong would never be involved in politics. Our suing Jiang Zemin does not mean that we are against China. Jiang Zemin does not represent China. Think about it, if my relative dies from the persecution or has been suffering under the persecution for the past dozen years, don’t I have the right to seek legal help? Other people might be too afraid to speak out, but I have to step up. Einstein said once, “If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.” When Hitler killed Jews, didn’t people say afterwards sadly that the real reason that such a horrific tragedy occurred was because none of them had the courage to step up and say something? Their silence encouraged the boldness of the true criminals. To stop the persecution and save the practitioners in China, we overseas practitioners need to work harder and help the people of the world see the facts of this persecution.
From the Call for Submissions to Commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of Falun Dafa’s Introduction
Category: Health Benefits
