Ngan Suk Fan (From Hong Kong) Occupation: Police Chief Inspector
In 1990 I was found to have a pituitary tumour. After an operation to remove it, I was told that I had to continue to take medicine for the rest of my life to control the residual tumour from growing.
After taking medication, although I did not feel too unwell, my physique had been going downhill all these years: my skin had become extremely dry, I often had red rashes, I had mental and physical fatigue and my weight kept climbing up. These were symptoms that not even the doctors could find a cause for or provide any ways of improving them, but they were all signals of poor health.
In September 2002 I started practising Taiji Five Elements Self Recovery Program (TFESRP). Even in the early practising days, I already felt much better, I became more relaxed, my skin had restored its shine, there were no more rashes, my weight was under control and my stamina was climbing back, even my astigmatism had disappeared. Hence my confidence in TFESRP also rose.
In the past two years, I persisted in practising everyday, and regularly fasted, joined the group practising sessions and in March 2003 I stopped taking any medication after my first qi-gong fasting and air ingesting therapy.
In the initial period when I stopped the medication, the two hormones that were affected by the tumour were higher than normal, my prolactin hormone became elevated to twice as high as the normal range and my growth hormone became three times higher than the normal range. After the second fasting and air ingesting therapy ten month later, all my hormone levels were back to normal and were under control.
Besides, I feel my physique has become better, and I feel much younger mentally. I am not at all worried about SARS, bird flu and Dengue fever which have beset the Hong Kong community in the recent months. Lately my classmate who is practising Chinese medicine felt my pulse and he also said that my pulse indicated signs of good health.
I will continue to put in efforts to practise this qi-gong.
2004
(Special thanks to WISH volunteer Mdm Wanda Lau for her kind translation of the original text)
