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Article: CHINESE CHOOSE AMONG THE QIGONG FOR HEALTH AND POLITICS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 28, 1999
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Most mornings in a large park in western Beijing, near the stone marker labeled Oasis of Life, hundreds of cancer patients practice rituals as they try to harness the invisible forces of qigong to fight their disease.
``HAAA! HAAA!'' shout those with lung cancer, trying to expel ``bad'' elements from their lungs as they take a stylized walk. Other patients, alone or in pairs, simply stride in the same deliberate way for four hours at a time, their arms shifting to and fro in a prescribed fashion.
A dozen newcomers circle around Yu Dayuan, a cancer survivor and a disciple of the Guo Lin school of anti-cancer qigong, named for the late master who ...