October 30, 2003
(Clearwisdom.net) I am a sixty-one year old woman and have been a physician for over forty years. During my late forties, however, I was tormented by multiple illnesses. In college I contracted an allergic condition and bronchial asthma. Medications could only control the symptoms but were unable to cure the illnesses.
After giving birth, due to poor nutrition and fatigue from work I was under a lot of strain and my condition worsened day by day. Almost every night around twelve o'clock, I would have a fit of dyspnea [breathing difficulty] and had trouble falling asleep. As time went on I was lightheaded and weak every day. I felt sick at the sight of food and suffered from diarrhea when drinking cold water. I had no appetite and weighed only 40 kg with a height of 162 cm. [about 5 feet 7 inches].
I was readily susceptible to the flu and would fall ill after seeing one or two patients. My health deteriorated steadily because my asthma would surface every time I came down with the flu. When I was close to forty years old, my workload as well as my household burdens increased, hence I developed even more health problems. I recurrently suffered from chronic symptoms of asthma and rhinitis; furthermore, I developed hyperthyroidism [an excessively active thyroid function] and rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis encroached upon my joints big and small throughout the body, and the inflammation in both shoulders took turns giving me severe pains. Moreover, my knee joints began to degenerate as in aged people when I was only forty-eight years old, and my lower back continuously gave me problems. I had illnesses all throughout my body and could not get a day of peace.
Menopause hit me at the age of forty-five and the symptoms continued to torment me, even until I obtained the Fa at age fifty-six. The insomnia that accompanied menopause grew more serious each day. It even got to the point where I became frantic at the sight of my bed. Later my doctors discovered that I had a goiter, so I had to take medication while I was working. After a few months the goiter disappeared, but the health-damaging drug caused severe jaundice and damaged my liver function. Hence I was forced to take a two-month leave.
When I turned fifty-five years old, I was forced to retire prematurely. My hands trembled so bad that I had to be hospitalized. I could no longer do calligraphy. The test results came back indicating that I had diabetes and four more goiters. My right thyroid gland had completely stopped functioning. At this point, my digestive system, nervous system, immune system, respiratory system, skeletal system and my connective tissues were all functioning abnormally. I was dizzy, and had headaches and blackouts. I was not able to eat, sleep, walk, sit, nor could I breathe without difficulty. I had to carry the asthma medication with me all the time. I had to take it even walking within fifty meters or else I would be so out of breath I could not take another step. I constantly suffered from a runny nose and nasal congestion. I always caught colds right before menstruation and the cold would aggravate all my illnesses. I felt light-headed each day and all the bones in my body ached. There was never a time when I felt comfortable, which felt more agonizing than the pain of death.
Then an elderly neighbor gave me a book called The Great Consummation Way of Falun Dafa. She told me that a relative of hers regained her health after doing the exercises and that she would like to recommend this practice to me.
After looking through the book I thought the exercises quite nice because they suited my present condition. Since there was a practice site near my home I went to check it out. The assistant received me warmly and handed me a copy of Zhuan Falun. In the process of reading Zhuan Falun, my insomnia took a turn for the better. After doing the exercises for half a month I started having diarrhea over ten times a day, but I did not feel uncomfortable and I knew Teacher was purifying my body. Over a period of ten consecutive days, the diarrhea stopped without my taking any medication and I have since become very energetic.
Later on, other practitioners and I watched videos of Teacher's overseas lectures. Each time everyone watched with full concentration while I was unable to suppress my sleepiness and slept soundly. I had not slept so well in several decades, but could still hear Teacher's words in my sleep. I was so ashamed back then and wondered why I was so indolent. Usually I had trouble falling asleep, but I slept like a baby at a time when I shouldn't be sleeping. I understood later that Teacher was actually treating the illness in my brain! It's just what Teacher said in Zhuan Falun, "A few individuals may fall asleep and wake up as soon as I finish my lecture. Why is that? It is because their brains have illnesses that need to be treated. One will be unable to stand it if one's brain is worked on. Therefore, one must be put into a state of anesthesia or become unconscious. Nevertheless, some people do not have a problem hearing me. Though they may sleep soundly, they hear everything without missing a single word. They will become energetic afterwards, and will not feel sleepy even if they go two days without sleep."
After cultivating for half a year, I basically had no more illnesses. I went out to do the exercises every morning from four to five o'clock. My husband feared that I might catch a cold and tried to stop me, "You will definitely catch cold this winter!" but not only had I not fallen ill that winter, all of my chronicle illnesses vanished completely in the years following my cultivation. In the past, I had to be hospitalized once or twice each year and had to take medications every single day. Since practicing the exercises I have not been hospitalized once nor have taken one tablet to this day.
My friends and old colleague were all very astonished at my positive changes. I would always tell them, "I recovered because of practicing Falun Dafa."
Then I resumed my job at the hospital. In the past several years I came into contact with countless patients suffering from diseases that were difficult to treat. I recommended Falun Dafa to them, and through hearing my personal experience they learned the truth and regained their health.
I am a veteran doctor so I know that medications could never cure the numerous illnesses I had in the past. But practicing Falun Gong could make them disappear in a short amount of time! This is truly amazing!
After I obtained the Fa, my relatives, friends and old colleagues all know that Falun Dafa is good. Some of them also started to read Zhuan Falun. My parents, who are both over eighty years old, began to cultivate, too.
My mother had a feeling like, "This is what I have been looking for" the minute she started the practice! Her chronic illness resurfaced after going to group exercise for the first time. She felt as if the world was spinning, and she had severe diarrhea and queasiness. Nevertheless, she said with determination, "It is not a problem," and she was well the next day. This never happened to her again in the five years of her cultivation. Moreover, she is eighty-four years old this year but her mind is agile and her gray hair has turned black. She also recovered from severe cataracts. Now the colors of her eyes are clear once again, and she is able to see very small writing. She is no longer afraid of the cold in winter nor is she sensitive to the heat in summer. She feels that her courage and strength have also increased. Her face is very smooth with very few wrinkles. Though she is of old age, she has no "age" spots on her skin and her lips are always red.
My father was a nationally renowned professor. He had a really tough life and was frightened by the numerous political movements. Although he knew Dafa is good, had read Teacher's books and had also done the exercises for a while, he was too scared to continue when the persecution began. A year later he died from stroke at the age of eighty-seven. When he was conscious during his illness, he often told us he regretted not having continued to practice.
My mother persisted in taking care of my father when he was ill. Her devoted actions prolonged my father's life for three years and she also received wide praise and esteem. When my father passed away, she was able to remain optimistic and devoted herself fully to studying the Fa, doing the exercises, sending righteous thoughts and clarifying the truth. She has been very strict with herself. Due to arthritis in both legs, degeneration of her joints, and large amounts of fatty tissue surrounding her knees, it had been really hard for her to do the sitting meditation. But after cultivating diligently, at the age of eighty-four, she can now sit in the full lotus position!
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