Sabrina Parker, the youngest patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) died in November 2010. It was just a little over a year after she was diagnosed with ALS. There is no cure for ALS in the annals of either Western or Chinese medicine.
However, there is at least one success story of an ALS patient who won the battle against the deadly illness without any assistance from modern medicine. His name is Wang Zhiyuan, now a research scientist in the Harvard Medical School, formerly a physician in China for 25 years.
ALS is a fatal, degenerative disease of the motor neurones, the cells in the central nervous system that control muscle activity including speaking, breathing, swallowing, walking, and general body movement.
Most people with ALS die from respiratory failure within three to five years after the onset of symptoms. About 10 percent of ALS patients survive for 10 or more years. There are as many as 20,000-30,000 people in the United States with ALS and about 200,000 in China.
In late 1980, while Wang was still a practicing physician in China, he was diagnosed with ALS. In less than two weeks his weight dropped from 170 lbs to 130 lbs. He could not climb stairs without fainting and could not go anywhere without a car. His memory deteriorated and he could not remember his home address.
Wang’s heart sank. He was hospitalized during the entire period of his wife’s pregnancy. His despair grew as he was unable to find any cure. He remained fretfully at home without much hope.
“When I was diagnosed with ALS, I came across a male patient in his thirties who also had ALS in the hospital of a medical school. He was unable to breathe without the help of a ventilator during the three years of his hospitalization.”
Wang went to every major hospital with experience in handling ALS in China. He also studied Chinese medicine and qigong, the slow breathing or bodily exercises for regulating energy. Nothing worked and his symptoms worsened.
In order to find a cure, Wang’s wife Mou Qiqi came to the U.S. Wang refused to go with her initially, as he did not want to die in a foreign country. Three years later Wang relented and joined his wife to seek treatment.
After arrival Wang suffered a severe hemorrhage in his digestive track, suffered memory loss, and was bedridden for 18 months.
Though he had moved to the U.S., Wang’s cure would come from China.
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