STUDY OF THE MECHANISM OF THE EFFECT OF QIGONG FOR DIABETES   


Author: Liu Chunmei//Sun Chenglin//Dong Xiuqin

Affiliation: Qigong Institute, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine & Pharmacology, Beijing 100029, China 
Conference/Journal: 3rd World Conf Acad Exch Med Qigong
Date published: 1996
Other:
  Pages: 107   ,  Special Notes: Some tables are only in Chinese abstracts.   ,  Word Count: 250  
    1. Qi field's influence on diabetic rats body weight 
Model group: decreased 
Qigong group: increased, but less than the control group.  more than the model group 
2.  Qi field's influence on BS 
group       rat         BS(mmol/L) 
control     10          3.72±0.38 
model       10          11.90±2.77 
qigong      10          8.72±2.97 
3. Qi field's influence on the content of MDA 
group       rat         MDA(hm/gHb) 
control     10          104.53±19.95 
model       10          245.07±30.39 
qigong      10          98.19±16.33 
4. Qigong field's influence on the content of LPO: The content of LPO was lower in the qigong group than in the model group. 
5. Qi field's influence on the  activity of GSH-PX: the activity of GSH-PX was similar in the qigong group and control group, indicating the qi field can activate the clearance of free radicals. 
6. Qi field's influence on the content of lipid peroxide: Qi field can inhibit the reaction of lipid peroxide and reduce the injury to free radicals. 
7. Qi field's influence on the activity of SOD: Improvement of the activity of SOD has not been found. 
8. Qi field's influence on the content of serum insulin: We have found the content of insulin in the model group is markedly lower than that in the control group, while that in the qigong group elevates a little.  There is no statistical significance.
 
Discussion: The experiment reveals that the qi field can lower BS but serum insulin does not increase, which may attribute to the regulating function of the qi field, improvement of bio-efficacy of insulin, and promotions of the glucose absorption and use, etc. 
Decrease of MDA and LPO indicates qi field can clear up free radicals.