The Incredible Story of The World's Largest Medicine-less Hospital

And it's mind-blowing 95% effectiveness rate

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I recently came back from a 9 day RenXue retreat. RenXue is the wisdom system I have been studying and practicing for the past 4+ years.

During the retreat, I learned more about its origins which included the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Center. Yuan Tze the creator and main teacher of RenXue, worked there as a teacher/doctor/healer and director of the recovery unit.

I found the story so compelling, I wanted to share it here. Much of the information I was able to garner was from Luke Chan’s book 101 Miracles of Natural Healing.

Until the 1980’s, Qigong in China was mostly kept under the radar amongst families and religious temples. From what I gather, people were familiar with it, but the deepest knowledge of it was not really available to the public. A parallel in yogic traditions might be something like Kriya Yoga where the teachings were reserved for students who pursued it at a certain depth.

Dr. Pang Ming was a pioneer who sought to change this. He was a qigong grandmaster and physician trained in both western and traditional Chinese medicine. He spent 30 years studying buddhism, martial arts, and Doaist Qigong under 19 different grandmasters, before introducing a method he called Zhineng Qigong to the public in the early 1980’s. Unlike the traditional Qigong culture, he shared all information with the public. 

In 1988, he established the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Center based on its methods and theory. 

“The Center” as it was most commonly called was considered a hospital for incurable illnesses. It’s where they sent people who had nowhere else to go. 

Unlike other hospitals, they used no medicine. The hospital was based on the 5,000 year old practice of Qigong. 

Within the center, doctors were called teachers and patients were referred to as students.

Upon entry, a student would receive a diagnosis using both modern machines and Qigong. Qigong diagnosis is based on special abilities such as a healer being able to see into the body. Following the diagnosis, students would be assigned to a class of 50 people with whom they start practicing Zhineng Qigong for 8 hours a day, for a period 24 days. Some students would also receive external Qi healings from the teachers.

For the first 3 years, the center did no advertising and it grew entirely by word of mouth. When asked why, Dr. Pang Ming cited wanting to collect data before publicly making claims because they thought no one would believe them. 

To collect data on their practices, they created an efficacy scale that classified patient outcomes in the following buckets:

1. Cured: symptoms disappear completely and disease is not traceable by modern instruments

2. Very effective: symptoms almost disappear and instruments show great improvement

3. Effective: noticeable improvements; student can eat, sleep, and feel good

4. Ineffective: no change or even worse.

Students were required to be tested one month after their initial diagnosis.

In 1991, the Center published data on their outcomes reflecting a 94.96% effectiveness rating across the 7,936 patients they surveyed. The results were:

• 15.2% completely cured

• 37.7% very effective

• 42% effective

• 5% ineffective

There were over 180 documented cured chronic diseases. These included cancer, diabetes, arthritis, paralysis, heart disease, severe depression, systemic lupus, and many other chronic illnesses.

It is documented that Yuan Tze had the highest rate of success in dealing with illness at the Centre during his time there, including cancer (44% cure rate).

In 1995, American Luke Chan went to live at the center for a month and documented his experience in the book 101 Miracles of Natural Healing. In the book, he shares the stories and pictures of 101 patients he interviewed and some of the more radical things he experienced.

For example, he recounts seeing an ultrasound image of a cancerous tumor and then watching it being removed naturally on the screen by qigong teachers. He took a video of it and actually has the original footage on the homepage of his website. If you scroll down here. In the video, you can literally see the tumor disappearing on the ultrasound in real-time.

This was just one of the many things he saw he previously considered inconceivable which you can read about in the book.

The other profound thing about the Center is that it operated as a non-profit. Tuition for the 24 day program was equivalent to $12, and for room and board on-site with tuition, it was around $70 a month. 

The healing center evolved to include a training center and scientific research department. Altogether, it employed over 600 people at its peak. A key ingredient to the operation and expansion was that many of the cured patients went on to use what they learned to become teachers. 

During its operation 10+ year, over 310,000 students (mostly patients) attended and on average they saw 4,000 students a month. 

Unfortunately, the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Center was shut down in 2001 for political reasons. The Chinese Government, having allowed Qigong activities for nearly two decades, banned all Qigong organizations and activities.

This caused many of the healers and teachers who could seemingly perform miracles to seek refuge in other parts of the world including Yuan Tze in New Zealand.

I find this all very profound and inspiring except the closing down part. Learning of what happened here speaks to the greater human potential we all have to uplift ourselves and others. 

I think it might be hard for many people to believe this without some sort of direct experience of Qi, Qigong, and the self healing capacity available to us. I am fortunate to have a fair amount of experience of that with RenXue.

The “impossible” is possible when we learn to work at the more fundamental level of energy (Qi) and information. This is a natural potential for all humans. It is just unlearned. So it remains dormant, beyond our reference system for most people. 

I am like an infant in my own understanding and capacity of this wisdom, but it’s real and once you have a glimpse of it, it’s hard to unsee and not want to further develop. 

With the evolution of consciousness, I believe more people will embrace this type of ancient wisdom and potential.

I hope this story inspires you in the way it did me. The path to wisdom starts with the intention to earnestly seek it out and openness.

-Scott

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