THE CLINICAL STUDY OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE TREATED BY QIGONG WITH MUSIC

Lu Lanting, Liu Yakun (Changchun Hospital of TCM)

Zhuang Yanbo (Sanitorium for Staff of Jilin province)

For coronary heart disease as set of qigong exercises with music was designed, and it was clinically applied with success in 1987. It works to regulate emotions and promote smooth circulation of blood, and prevent attack of the disease. Combined with music, it exerts more effectg than sole qigong therapy or music therapy. 200 cases of coronary heart disease were studied from 1988-1989 and satisfactory results were got.

Clinical data:

The patients were divided into groups of clinical cure, marked effectiveness and failure.

(1) Sex and age: male: 138, female: 64, age: 37-80; 40-70: 194 cases (97%)

(2) Classification of groups. Kidney-heart pain, stomach-heart pain, spleen-heart pain, liver heart pain and lung-heart pain.

(3) Observing method: The patients were randomly divided into the treating group and control group.

Treating method:

Learning qigong exercises: The patients did qigong exercise, 15-30 min each time, twice a day, 30 days made a course and they did 1-3 courses.

Result and analysis

(Clinical cure: 19 cases; marked effectiverness: 64 cases; effectiveness; 109 cases; failure: 8 cases.

Age and effectiveness

age case clinical marked effectiveness failure effective

cure effectiveness rate

>58 34 6 9 17 2 94.7%

<58 166 19 42 98 7 95.8%

Course and effectiveness

age case clinical marked effectiveness failure effective

cure effectiveness rate

>3 99 15 27 52 5 94.9%

<3 181 18 7 88 4 96.4%

Comparison between two group

treating group control group

clinical cure 19 5

marked effectiveness 64 21

effectiveness 189 68

failure 8 17

total 288 189