(Minghui.org) Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease for which there is no known cure. The disease causes the immune system to produce autoantibodies that attack its own cells and tissues, leading to the damage of one’s internal organs and subsequent complications.
Regardless of age, those with lupus face life-threatening conditions and will have to take medication for the rest of their lives.
Some people with lupus, however, have been lucky enough to recover from the disease after practicing Falun Dafa, a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline for mind and body. Below are their stories.
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Reporter Witnesses Dafa’s Miraculous Healing Power
Ms. Xu Xiuhui
Ms. Xu Xiuhui, from Taiwan, has worked in the U.S. for three years. She is now working as a reporter for the The Epoch Times in Los Angeles.
When she was about to finish her graduate study in Taiwan, one of her best friends, Ms. Zeng Yunying, had health issues: at the beginning she lot her hair; then she had some spots on her skin, which gradually became red ulcers; then yellow liquid came out of the spots. She visited many hospitals for examination, and all the doctors told her that it might be lupus, but it was difficult to diagnose, especially at the early stage.
About six months later, Ms. Zeng’s joints were hot, swollen and painful. She could hardly sleep at night. When Ms. Xu touched her hands, she could feel the stiffness and deformation. Ms. Zeng’s health was declining and she faced the prospect of becoming paralyzed.
Ms. Xu was very anxious for Ms. Zeng and helped her searched everywhere for a cure. However lupus is well-known as incurable.
In late 2010, they heard about the healing effect of Falun Dafa. They started to search for the local practice site. To their surprise, they found one in their small town, and there were a lot of practitioners!
It was winter and the group exercises started at 4:20 a.m. To help her friend, Ms. Xu accompanied Ms. Zeng to the practice site.
Soon Ms. Zeng no longer suffered insomnia, whereas before she had trouble falling asleep due to pain. In two weeks, her symptoms disappeared one by one: her hair loss stopped, and her joints were no longer swollen or stiff. Then she stopped taking medicines. Ms. Xu said, “Falun dafa is amazing!”
Because of this experience, Ms. Xu became a Falun Dafa practitioner, too.
Lupus Patient Recovered after Reciting Two Phrases
Ms. Liu, Changchun City, Jilin Province, is 53 years old. When she was 35, she suffered from lupus, the same disease that claimed her mother’s life when she was young. She visited almost all hospitals in the city but none of the doctors could provide treatment to her. Her condition kept worsening and she almost lost her desire to live.
Ms. Liu’s husband had a friend whose wife Mei (alias) is a Falun Dafa practitioner. In 2005, Mei visited Ms. Liu while she was in the hospital. Mei urged her to quit the CCP and its associated organizations. Ms. Liu happily agreed because she experienced the June 4th Incident in 1999 while she was in college, and she knew how evil the CCP was.
Mei also gave Ms. Liu an amulet of Falun Dafa. Ms. Liu carried it all the time. She believed in Falun Dafa and sincerely recited the auspicious phrases: “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” To her surprise, she recovered shortly after and also took up Falun Dafa.
Diagnosed with Terminal Illness 28 Years Ago
In 1994, Ms. Zhu Luoxin was 29 years old and working in Hong Kong. One day she felt a painful itch on her face and there were a few fresh red spots. Within two months the discoloration spread rapidly over her body. Wherever she scratched herself, blisters appeared. Eventually, she had dark red and swollen skin all over her body that was itchy and unbearably tingling. She went to see a Chinese traditional medicine doctor and a Western doctor who both diagnosed her with lupus erythematosus.
At that time, she had to spend over 100 Hong Kong dollars a day on medication. Her salary barely covered the cost. But within just two hours of applying the medication, the itch started again and it was even worse than before. When she was 30, only her hands and the skin below her knees were normal. She was unable to work in the later stages of her disease. Six months later, she almost completely lost her immunity.
From time to time, she went to see folk doctors and try special prescriptions or other treatments. “I had just lost my mother, and I was terminally ill. Life is really unpredictable. Being human is really suffering. I hoped to have a chance to practice cultivation which could help me get out of [the cycle of] life and death,” she recalled.
Fully Recovered After Practicing Falun Dafa
In mid-December 1994, Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa, held the last series of lectures in China at the Guangzhou City Gymnasium in Guangdong Province. The Guangzhou Human Body Research Society hosted the event and about six thousand people from all over China attended.
Ms. Zhu happened to be in Guangzhou City at that time. One of her friends bought two tickets and invited her to attend, saying that it was a qigong practice of the Buddha School, which was very good, and tickets were hard to get.
Ms. Zhu thought that since her life was in such a state, it wouldn’t hurt to listen to the lectures. But she didn’t expect that it was the most important turning point in her life.
“While I was in the class, I had no pain or itching. After the fifth class when I was changing at home, I found that my skin was as smooth as healthy skin and was not itchy at all. My disease was cured without any treatment! I knew that it was Master Li who had saved my life. At that moment I silently said in my heart: ‘Thank you, Master!’”
She returned to work and was able to live a normal life. After she recovered, she was promoted to the assistant to the general manager for the Chinese distributor of Nintendo Japan.
Ms. Zhu Luoxin (left) talks to people about Falun Gong at an event in Finland
Jailed Eight Years for Her Belief
However, after the communist regime started the persecution in 1999, Ms. Zhu was targeted for her belief. Before she was arrested on December 3, 2002, the police in Guangzhou posted a 100,000-yuan reward for people to report her whereabouts. She was later sentenced to eight years in prison.
She spent two years and ten months in solitary confinement and was subjected to intensive brainwashing. She was forbidden to contact anyone or receive any information from outside the prison. The prolonged torture left her on the verge of death. She was once pinned to the floor with 40-pound shackles for 14 days and could not walk when the shackles were removed.
With the help of practitioners outside of China, Ms. Zhu flew to Helsinki, Finland on January 26, 2012, to reunite with her husband, Mr. Wu Zhiping, also a Falun Gong practitioner. By then, she hadn’t seen him for 11 years.
Ms. Zhu and her husband Mr. Wu Zhiping at the Geneva Human Rights Conference in 2013
(To be continued.)
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