THE CLINICAL STUDY OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE TREATED BY QIGONG WITH MUSIC 


Author: Lu Lanting 1//Liu Yakun 1//Zhuang Yanbo 2

Affiliation: Changchun Hospital of TCM [1], Sanitorium for Staff of Jilin Province [2]
Conference/Journal: 3rd World Conf Acad Exch Med Qigong
Date published: 1996
Other:
  Pages: 135   ,  Special Notes: Some tables are only in Chinese abstracts.   ,  Word Count: 204  
    For coronary heart disease a set of qigong exercises with music was designed, and it was clinically applied with success in 1987. It works to regulate emotions and promote smooth circulation of blood, and prevent attack of the disease.  Combined with music, it exerts more effect than sole qigong therapy or music therapy. 200 cases of coronary heart disease were studied from 1988-1989 and satisfactory results were got. 
Clinical data:
The patients were divided into groups of clinical cure, marked effectiveness, effectiveness and failure. 
(1) Sex and age: male: 138, female: 64, age: 37-80; 40-70: 194 cases (97%). 
(2) Classification of groups.  Kidney-heart pain, stomach-heart pain, spleen-heart pain , liver heart pain and lung-heart pain
(3) Observing method: The patients were randomly divided into the treating group and control group. 
Treating method:
Learning qigong exercises: The patients did qigong exercise, 15-30 min each time, twice a day, 30 days made a course and they did 1-3 courses. 
Result and analysis
(1) Clinical cure: 19 cases; marked effectiveness: 64 cases;effectiveness: 109 cases; failure: 8 cases. 
Age and effectiveness 
              
age   case     clinical              marked          effectiveness         failure    effective
                 cure              effectiveness                                   rate
>58   34           6                      9                    17              2        94.7%
<58   166         19                     42                    98              7        95.8%

Course and effectiveness 
      
age   case     clinical             marked           effectiveness         failure      effective
                cure             effectiveness                                     rate
>3    99        15                     27                     52                5             94.9%
<3    181       18                      7                      88               4             96.4%

Comparison between two group 
      
                            treating group       control group
clinical cure                  19                    5
marked effectiveness           64                   21
effectiveness                 189                   68
failure                         8                   17
total                         288                  189