A case of recovery from Diabetes
Choi Chung Fai (From Hong Kong)
Age:49 Occupation: Social Work Supervisory Officer
I am a social work supervisory officer. My daily duties are
to guide and supervise school social work in a number of secondary schools in
Yuen Long, Tuen Mun and Tin Sui Wai. There are more than ten thousand students
in these schools altogether, and their problems all fall within my work area.
With today’s school culture and climate, you can imagine how much pressure I
have been facing, and such work pressure is perhaps the cause of my illness.
Towards the end of last year, I had an open wound in my foot
which did not heal up after more than three weeks. When I went to St. Paul’s
Hospital for consultation, the doctor suspected that the glucose level in my
blood was abnormal, and a preliminary blood test indicated that it was high. So
the doctor suspected that I had diabetes, and asked me to return the following
day for further checks. Two days later, I returned to have blood tests, after
both fasting and taking in sweet fluid, and the index was 12 for glucose level
after fasting, and 19 for having taken sweet fluid, which means that I was
confirmed to have diabetes. At that time it was 13 January 2004.
The doctor told me that for diabetes, the patients need to
take medicine for the rest of their lives. Even though the illness itself is not
dangerous, the complications incurred can be fatal. So he gave me prescriptions
for one tablet of the medication to be taken daily continuously. After taking
the medicine for more than twenty days, the glucose level in my blood was still
hovering between 7 and 9, and at times the glucose level would drop so much that
I had cold sweat all over. In order to fight with this illness, I asked the
doctor to refer me to the Diabetes Centre in Tung Wah Hospital for follow-up
work. In mid March, I went to Tung Wah Hospital for a check-up and a diabetes
course. There were diabetic patients with different levels of seriousness,
varying from new patients to those who had the illness for more than seven
years. Many of them started with one tablet a day, and afterwards, the dosage
increased to two, four, until they had to have insulin injection once or twice
daily. Some have lost the vision of one eye, some had one leg removed. It really
sent chill down my spine. I asked myself, “Is that going to be my future?” I was
feeling very depressed, fearing that I would become a burden to my family.
When I left the Diabetes Centre, I walked along Tung Wah
Hospital Road all by myself, feeling extremely sorry for myself. Suddenly I
remembered how two years ago a teacher whom I respect very much taught me to get
rid of a kidney stone (which not even an ultra sound machine was able to handle)
through practising qi-gong. But subsequently as my teacher emigrated to Taiwan,
I became slack in practising it. So I immediately called my teacher up to ask
him how to deal with my diabetes problem. My teacher’s first response was, “
Don’t take the medicine, just practising qi-gong will do”. I was thinking to
myself, “Teacher, with your level of qi-gong, of course it is achievable, but
for me, I need to take the risks of incurring complications if I don’t take the
medicine. After all, with my teacher being so far away in Taiwan, it will be
difficult for him to teach me face to face, what should I do?” I reckoned I had
better continue with the medicine first. Afterwards, I started collecting a lot
of information about diabetes and also looked for books about qi-gong in
bookstores. By chance I came across Master He’s book “ Qi-gong practice and a
healthy life”. This book mentions how to regard illnesses and stresses the
concept of man’s self-healing power, which is similar to what my teacher taught
me. Eureka! I thought that was just what I was looking for. At the back of the
book, there was a website address which brought me to the World Institute for
Self-Healing (WISH) and to the WISH President Ms Christina Chiu’s talk.
After the talk, I joined a basic course at the end of March
and an Intensive course at the beginning of April to learn Taiji Five Elements
Self Recovery Program (TFESRP). With the direction of President Chiu, I had
dropped the glucose controlling drugs as soon as I started practising TFESRP.
Everyday I had two to three hours of practice. On the fourth day, the glucose
level index in my blood had already steadied at between 4 to 6. In May when I
went to Tung Wah Hospital for consultation, the blood tests indicated that all
indexes, including glucose level of my blood, kidney and liver functions were
normal, except I was overweight and needed to reduce my weight. That report
greatly increased my confidence and so I have put in more efforts to practise
the qi-gong. It has been more than half a year since then, and I have not taken
even one tablet of diabetes medication since then. Although I try to control the
amount of my food intake (to control my weight), basically I have been having a
normal diet. I can now eat practically anything. I can even take some dessert
after meal, but the glucose level in my blood is still kept at 5.6. I can say
that I am now no different from a normal person. TFESRP has indeed cured an
illness that western doctors consider to require medication for life.
After practising TFESRP for half a year, besides curing my
diabetes, I also had some other gains. The most important change was my view
towards illnesses. I now regard illnesses as a kind reminder from my body,
telling me that there is a need to adjust my lifestyle. Moreover, practising
TFESRP enabled me to have a new understanding and experience of man’s basic
potential. I realized that we actually all have the potential power in ourselves
and we don’t need to seek power and assistance externally, neither do we need to
rely on drugs. The problem with us is only that we have been too used to relying
on doctors that we have not used our own potential.
It was my luck and karma to have a chance to practise TFESRP.
I believe there are many others who need this help. I hope through sharing my
own experience with the readers, I would provide some encouragement and
inspiration to those who need this help. Our life is in our own hands, what we
have in ourselves is already sufficient.
2004
(Special thanks to WISH volunteer Mdm Wanda Lau for her kind
translation of the original text)
