The Amazing Health Benefits of Falun Dafa

The meditation practice Falun Dafa became phenomenally popular in China in the 1990s, partly because of its remarkable healing effects. Those who study Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong) and practice its five gentle exercises have reported great improvement in their physical and mental well-being.

The practice was first taught in public in 1992 and spread widely by word of mouth over the next few years. By 1999, an estimated 70 to 100 million people in China were practicing Falun Dafa.

All over China, people who took up the practice reported miraculous recoveries from illnesses, including cancer, arthritis, heart disease, and many others.

In July 1999, fearing the practice’s enormous popularity, the Chinese communist regime began persecuting Falun Dafa and spreading false information in the media to discredit it. Despite the propaganda, many Chinese people still remembered stories of Falun Dafa’s healing effects or had experienced the effects themselves.

In addition, there still existed scientific data that demonstrated the practice’s health benefits.

A survey had been conducted in 1998 on 6,478 Falun Dafa practitioners in Dalian, China, according to Minghui.org, a website that reports on the persecution of Falun Dafa. Over 99.8 percent of those with health problems reported improvement since taking up the practice.

Before practicing, 95.59 percent of participants suffered from illnesses and medical conditions, the survey showed. For 92 percent of them, all symptoms vanished after beginning the practice. 7.74 percent moderately improved, and 0.14 percent did not report any improvement.

In addition, 62.1 percent of those surveyed were 50 to 71 years old, an age when health problems are likely to appear, Minghui noted.

Another survey was conducted in North America, collecting complete health data from participants, according to Minghui.

Of the 235 people surveyed, 224 were found to have marked health improvement after practicing Falun Dafa. Charts in the Minghui article show that many different types of diseases were cured and that most participants reported complete recovery.

A recent study showed that Falun Dafa is very effective at improving the survival rate of cancer patients. A paper on the study was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The 152 patients studied were terminal cancer patients, yet most of them reported complete symptom recovery after practicing Falun Dafa, according to the paper.

According to the report, the 152 patients who were eligible for the study had been expected to survive about 5.1 months. However, their actual survival rate was about 56 months and counting, as 149 of them were still alive as of the report date. Among the patients, 147 reported that they had fully recovered.

The study took other factors into account and concluded that the duration of Falun Dafa practice was the dominating predictive factor behind the patients’ recovery.

Little clinical research has been done on Falun Dafa’s healing effects, likely because of the persecution in China. In the study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, however, the patients’ medical information was verifiable. All of the reports were reviewed by two physicians, according to the paper.

The above-mentioned research data may help explain why many Falun Dafa practitioners refuse to give up the practice even when imprisoned for their beliefs, tortured, or harassed by the Chinese Communist Party. There are other reasons as well, such as practitioners’ firm belief in the three main principles of Falun Dafa: truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.

Perhaps even more remarkable than the scientific data is the sheer number of personal accounts of healing. Hundreds of these are documented on Minghui.org.

Sources:

http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2001/6/17/11524.html

http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2003/3/31/33996.html

http://en.minghui.org/cc/17/

http://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2016.34.15_suppl.e21568