(Minghui.org) Femoral head necrosis is known as an “incurable cancer,” an intractable disease affecting the femur, the largest bone in the body that runs from the hip to the knee. This disease is mainly caused by the interruption or damage of the blood supply to the femoral head, which may result in necrosis of the bone cells and marrow and structural changes to the bone.
Modern medicine cannot cure femoral head osteonecrosis. Patients in the final stages of this condition are generally in severe pain and the muscles of the lower part of the leg have atrophied. Some may experience limited hip movement, walk with a limp, and even suffer paralysis. Many who experience this condition live in despair.
However, some patients, after practicing Falun Dafa, were not only able to survive but even live a healthy life. Some patients were cured by simply sincerely reciting “Falun Dafa is good, and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
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Dawn’s Light in the Darkness of Misery
When I was 26, I developed aseptic necrosis in my femoral head because of a previous work injury. Although I took herbal medicines and underwent dry needling, nothing made it better.
One doctor recommended traction therapy. To save money, he suggested that I have the treatments at home. We decided to try it. During that time, I lay in bed while my wife took care of me and everything else. I secretly cried many times, hoping I would recover quickly. After two months of treatment, however, the condition didn’t improve.
One doctor took an X-ray and said that only artificial joint replacement surgery could alleviate my symptoms. The artificial joint could last only for five to 10 years, which meant that I would require surgery every five or 10 years. My wife didn’t agree with it and said that we should see different doctors in other cities to find a better treatment. We would only have the surgery if there was really no other way.
Then we heard about a famous bone hospital. As a last hope, I went there and started the 10-month treatment. Every day, I took lots of herbal medicine. Then I developed some problems with my intestines, and I had frequent and severe pain. I thought maybe I had been stricken with some new disease. I was so scared that I didn’t dare continue taking the herbal medicine.
Another x-ray revealed that the neck of my femur was decayed and deformed. All hope of recovery was gone. I didn’t want to undergo any more treatments. And since I wasn’t able to work or support my family, there was no purpose to my life—I would only make others suffer more. I thought about suicide.
I didn’t want my parents and my wife to worry about me, so I didn’t tell them about the hopeless condition of my bones. I lied and told them that I felt much better. I threw away my canes and pretended that I was well.
I no longer cared about whether my movements placed a burden on my legs. Sometimes, I even dragged myself to work in the fields. Each step I took sent sharp pains up my legs, and I didn’t know how much longer I could keep up the charade.
At the end of 1998, I was fortunate enough to start practicing Falun Dafa. I didn’t expect my condition to disappear; I just felt that Dafa was good and that I’m lucky to study such great teachings while I’m still alive. About two months later, I noticed one day that my legs no longer hurt. After suffering torment and agony for several years and losing all hope of recovery, I am now completely recovered.
No words could express my excitement. I cried from the bottom of my heart, “Thank you, Master Li, for saving me! Thank you for giving me a healthy body and saving my family!”
Falun Dafa enabled me to bid farewell to my destitute condition. I was able to work, with so much energy that I could hardly use it all up. My whole village witnessed the miraculous recovery brought about by Dafa, and people have begun to take up Dafa one after another.
From Necrosis to Walking on Air
Ms. Zhao Xiulan of Jilin Province, 67, is a retired high school teacher. She used to suffer from femoral head necrosis and sciatica. She almost became incapacitated in her 40s and had to wear thick slacks even in the hot summer. Though she tried both Western and Chinese medicine, as well as surgery, nothing seemed to help her. And the medicines she took gave her a bevy of severe side effects.
A neighbor later introduced Ms. Zhao to Falun Dafa. Ms. Zhao first went to the group exercise site with a walking cane. Gradually, she was able to meditate in the full lotus position, with both her legs crossed, and ride a bike to get around town.
Ms. Zhao said that she benefitted so much from Falun Dafa and because of that, felt compelled to tell people that Falun Gong has been wronged by the government.
A Paralyzed Nurse Makes a Stunning Recovery
I am a 63-year-old nurse. Since I was 33, my body was beset with various ailments.
During the Chinese New Year season in 1989, the right side of my body became paralyzed. I slurred my speech and had difficulty eating and drinking. The muscles around my eyes and mouth sagged uncontrollably, and I looked like someone who had a stroke. Saliva was constantly dripping from my mouth. Most of all, I was in agonizing pain.
I was confined to a hospital bed, where a CT scan showed a chestnut-sized shadow on the right parietal lobe of my brain. I was told that I might have a brain tumor. My whole family feared for my health. Specialists diagnosed me with multiple sclerosis and prescribed a high dosage of steroids for treatment.
After 10 months, my condition had become stable, but I still could not move my right arm or leg. To make matters worse, just a year and a half later I developed a severe complication: aseptic necrosis of my femoral head. My left hip became deformed.
Doctors explained their diagnosis and directed me to have immediate bed rest. I was told not to walk at all, otherwise, I would need to go through several surgeries to have my femur bone head replaced with an artificial one.
Hearing this, I felt like I had just been struck by lightning and collapsed. I cried for a long time. I almost lost the courage to continue living.
I embarked on a series of lengthy treatments for my left femur. I partook in a daily herbal medicine regimen. Six times a month, I had to have pressure relief treatment for my left hip. The doctor even drilled into my femoral head under X-ray guidance and injected medicine into my hips. This treatment was so painful that I had to take painkillers for 3 days after the procedure.
And even after going to all these places and spending all this money on treatments, I failed to see any effect. For over three years, I was in excruciating pain.
Then, I discovered Falun Dafa. Master Li’s teachings gave me hope, like a beacon of light shining upon me in this sea of suffering. I decided immediately that I wanted to practice Falun Dafa.
The same night, when I finished reading Zhuan Falun, I felt an unbearably sharp pain in my back and chest all of a sudden. I rolled off my bed onto the floor in agony. The on-call doctor came and gave me acupuncture and two injections of strong analgesics, to no avail. The next morning, the doctor performed an ultrasound, but could not find anything wrong. Since I had no other choice, I decided to just grit my teeth and bear it.
I suffered this torture for six days. On the seventh day, the pain suddenly stopped and I felt like a new person. On the eighth day, a mysterious burst of strength motivated me to ride a bicycle to a group exercise site. I could hardly believe it myself. I later realized that Master Li was purifying my body for those six days. Since then, my confidence and determination to practice Falun Dafa have grown much stronger.
I repeatedly read Zhuan Falun. I went to the group exercise site every day, rain or shine. I measured myself against Dafa standards in everything that I did and strived to move forward on my path of cultivation.
A year and ten months later, my speech recovered. I went from being bedridden to riding bicycles. My ankles and toes were agile, and the pain in my hip from the bone disease disappeared. A follow-up scan confirmed that my femoral head became normal.
I Finally Got Rid of My Incurable Cancer
I broke my thigh bone and ruptured my arteries and veins in an accident 28 years ago.
I was rushed to the hospital, where I was operated on for nearly seven hours and given 3.2 liters of blood.
Before being discharged from the hospital, I was diagnosed with aseptic avascular necrosis in my femoral head due to a previous fracture that had not been treated in a timely manner.
I knew the seriousness of this disease. When I was discharged, the doctor warned me that I might have to be on crutches for life as this disease was still incurable. His words often rang in my ears.
I was middle-aged, and my child was only in middle school. Thinking of my situation, I became anxious and restless. I couldn’t eat or sleep well.
Soon, more ailments began to crop up. I developed acute pyelonephritis, I had blood in the urine, and I swelled all over my body. My hair suddenly turned gray, and I looked as old as a person in his 60s.
If all of my family’s burdens ended up falling on my wife, I would be too ashamed to live. Thus, I took many medicines and asked many people for remedies. But every time, I left with hope and returned with disappointment.
In July 1997, a friend introduced me to Falun Dafa. The first two times he tried to talk to me about it, I didn’t believe him. The third time, he said that I could come with him if I wanted to practice and that he would not persuade me anymore after that. When I expressed my willingness to give it a try at that time, he gave me the book Zhuan Falun.
Master cleansed my body as soon as I started practicing. I have experienced the phenomenon of karma elimination several times. Every sickness will have different manifestations during karma elimination. Some manifested as severe symptoms, and others were pretty mild. But I just kept on studying the Fa and doing the exercises.
Gradually, I no longer needed my cane, and really had the wonderful feeling of being illness-free.
My family owned a small shop refilling liquefied petroleum gas for customers. To provide good customer service, I picked up empty tanks from customers and returned the tanks to them after the tanks were refilled. A full tank weighed about 70 pounds. Even a young man might not be able to carry it to the sixth floor in one go. Yet, I could do it without breaking a sweat.
On one occasion, I came across a colleague when I was out on errands. He was surprised at my physical condition and asked me how and where my leg got cured. I told him about the miracle of Falun Dafa. Not only did Falun Dafa cure my leg, it also helped me maintain my health. I introduced him to many things about Dafa and explained why the CCP has persecuted Falun Dafa.
“Falun Dafa is amazing, and you should keep practicing,” he said.
(The end.)
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