Dear Jennifer, I have to respond to this CF post. One of the best friends I ever had died from this when she was only 22. I was a young respiratory therepist at the time and felt helpless in the face of this allegedly genetic illness. I took my friend Judy's loss very personally. I have spent a lifetime looking for cures for disease but did not know what we could do about genetic disese.
My first clue came about 6 or7 years ago when I was reading an article in a health magazine. It was about something I had never heard of before called Qigong. Most know about it now, but then it was not that well known. The artticle about it moved me because of my freind Judy. It was written by a young man. He had been born with severe cystic fibrosis. He was told he would not likely live much past the age of 16. He was bedridden on anO2 mask most of his childhood. But he was a lad of spirit and dreamed of one day getting well and becoming like people he admired. He loved the martial arts and spent his days often reading martial arts magazines. He one day in his late teens read an article about some mysterious sect in Chiina that would take in sick childeren left beside roads to die and this sect of martial artists monks would heal these kids and train them in their ways. The young man with CF was young enough and idealistic enough to let this give him a faint ray of hope. When he turned 18 he took money that was his and planned to go to mainland China and seek these mysterious healers. His family objected sure he could never survive the trip as he was on more than 36 different medications just to stay alive. But he figured he would die soon anyway if he stayed home in bed as he had already lived past the 16 year mark the doctors had given him as the estimate for the end of his life. SO off to China he went. He asked around via interpreters for what he was looking for. but no one seemed to know and no one came to him with the info. He began to feel despair that he had made a mistake in coming when one day a small man cme up to him and bowed and said that if the American would meet him atop a nearby mountain at 7 am the next morining he would teach him how to heal himself. Well our hero was there a 7 am with bells on. But the master never showed up. Dissappointed the sick lad went back down the mountain to the villiage he was stayin ing. and climbing that mountain had draned his already weak and dying body. But again the master saw him an town and apologized and said to meet him atop the mountain again the next day. And again the master did not show. Excuse after excuse came and went for 30 days. And on the 30th day when the young man had again strained himself to trudge up the mountain feeling like an utter fool by now, it began to pour rain on him. ANd he felt so ill and tired and foolish he sat down and started to Sob his heart out. He knew he would die for sure in this strange and uncaring land. But then out from behind some shrubs stepped the "master" who pulled the lad to his feet and said solemnly in broken English. " I'm sorry, but first I had to test you to seeif you had the will for the training.,for without the will I do not think any amount of training could help you., you have passed my test." Come again tomorrow and we will start your real training. SO the lad and the master began to meet on the mountain at 7 every moring for many weeks. After the first month alone the man with CF was able to cut his medicine intake in half. After a few mor months he was able to cut his medicines even more. By the end of a years intensive training he was off all the medicines he had spent a lifetime on, and he was symptom free. He came back to the states and he no longer even tests positive for CF. This man is now in his 30's and goes all over the US telling his story and trying to promote the healing powers of qigong. If you daughter has the will to stuggle up a mountain 30 days in a row at least metaphorically, this might be a viable route for her as she gorws older. As many qogong masters are now living in the US and many tapes and books are out, she would not even have to go to mainland China to tgain these benefits. I am still looking into things like herbal medicine though so I can still one day help people who can't climb a mountain 30 days in a row. Barb Michael Lee Finney [email protected] [email protected] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
