(18 Oct 1997) T/I: 10:32:38
A Special Economic Zone in southern China, Zhuhai is a scenic delight but a poor economic achiever. The reason for its poor economic record is that, unusually, the city’s planners care less about making money than they do about preserving mother nature. Polluting industries are not welcome in Zhuhai. Perhaps it is for this reason that nature lends a hand in treating the patients of Dr Yang Yongshu, a 60-year-old woman, trained in Western medicine, who heals without surgery, medication, or the latest technology. Dr Yang is China’s most famous practitioner of qi gong (pronounced chee-gung), a centuries-old form of traditional medicine which claims to harness psychic energy to diagnose disease and cure the sick. Dr. Yang describes her natural healing treatment as two parts medical science — techniques derived from Oriental and Western medicine — and one part qi gung, or the doctor’s ability to channel her special energy, or air, into the body of the patient.
Chinese medicine holds that the body is composed of passages or meridians which form a network linking the lymphatic, circulatory and nervous systems through the vital organs. The
nub of Dr. Yang’s therapy is to clear these passages and enable the body to heal itself naturally.
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ZHUHAI, CHINA RECENT
WIDE HIGH shot of Zhuhai city,
traffic circle,
jogger running by coast;
Patients exercise in front of Dr Yang’s clinic,
man hopping,
woman kicking into air;
Dr Yang writing note, tilt up to her face,
Dr Yang points to Chinese anatomy chart and points to her own body,
Dr treating back of patient engineer yang meiren,
her hands moving up patient’s back;
Engineer Yang Meiren SOT (in English): “So now I’m very happy because I get some health. Everyday I play basketball”
General Liu Shao Xian walks up stairs,
Gen Liu SOT (in Mandarin): “Frankly speaking I don’t know much about the
medicine but Dr. Yang’s treatment did something to relieve my problem and I believe it helps a great deal with heart patients.”
Dr Yang in Zhuhai lakeside park,
walking over bridge;
Dr Yang SOT (in Mandarin): “From my own experience, as I first studied Western medicine, Western medical science is clearly defined. it’s easy for people to understand. Chinese medicine is also a science of high level, but its contents are broad. It involves every part of and everything related with the body. It is not easy for ordinary people to understand. It demands a high level of education and culture to understand and study it, and experience it.”
Dr Yang and her son shovel cement onto roof of her new clinic.
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