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Approved For Release 2000/08" 42 ta‘ kpAbs-007928008300400002-9 in 1950, he started practicing gigong in early childhood. A graduate of Chengdu Traditional Chinese Medical College he has been very successful at seemingly miraculous cures of his countless patients. In 1986 his fame brought him to Beijing where, in front of a medical council, he proved his gifts by fully restoring a broken bone. A patient with a multiple fracture, clearly documented on an X-ray picture, was brought to Dr. Yan. After a short chat with the patient Dr. Yan declared that the bone is now cured and, indeed, the patient felt fine and subsequent X-ray pictures did not show any traces of the previous damage. Dr. Yan's abilities are clearly outstanding but not unique, there are many qigong masters who, by emission of qi, routinely speed up the recovery of a broken bone from few month to just weeks or less. What is qi The mysterious substance that seems to be at the core of all this unusual phenomena still remains a mystery. Chinese scientists, using arrays of modern detectors, tried to moniter emissions originating from qigong masters. They met with partial success by detecting increased levels of infrared radiation. Interestingly, the emission oscillated with a low frequency. In 18 Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300400002-9