"The True Human Life Science CCP Fears"

《中共恐惧的真正人体生命科学》———

“An Ancient Cultivation Practice Falun Gong Improves Neutrophil Functions and Causes System-Level Gene Regulation"

《法輪功：一种古老的修煉能提高中性粒白細胞功能並引發系統性基因調控》

(Written by Dr. Tongwen Wang in 2004)

作者： 王彤文博士

2004年

Here we include new updated information at the Whole Elephant Institute.

在这里，我们提供了全象学院的最新更新信息

Published research data by Dr. Lili Feng's team can be found here:

封莉莉博士团队已发表的研究数据可在此处找到：

Dr. Lili Feng's Published Article

全象学院网站：

www.thewholeelephant.info

www.confuciuscharters.org

www.shennonglabs.com

二零二一年十一月十二日

November 12th, 2021

 

Research Abstract:

研究简论：

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, was a very popular Qigong practice in China between 1992-1999 and now is known and practiced by nearly 100 million people throughout the world. Among all of the different Qigong practices that exhibit effects on improving one's health, Falun Gong had the fastest growth rate and the most far-reaching influence among the Chinese people. The effect of Falun Gong on health appears not to be dependent upon age, sex, or cultural background, as indicated by the large-scale health survey carried out in 1998 in China. To better understand the healing effects of Falun Gong, we carried out a series of studies on polymorphonuclear leukocytes (neutrophils; PMNs) of Falun Gong practitioners and compared them with PMNs from randomly chosen non-practitioners.

 

法轮功，又称法轮大法，是1992年至1999年间在中国非常流行的一种气功功法，现在全世界有近1亿人知道和修炼。在所有对健康有益的气功功法中，法轮功在中国人中的增长速度最快，影响最深远。 1998 年在中国进行的大规模健康调查表明，法轮功对健康的影响似乎与年龄、性别或文化背景无关。为了更好地了解法轮功的健康效应，我们对法轮功修炼者的多形核白细胞（中性粒细胞；PMNs）进行了一系列研究，并将其与随机选择的非修炼者的 PMNs 进行了比较。

 

Research Results:

研究结果

We here report the cellular and molecular changes in Falun Gong practitioners' PMNs that may underlie the enhanced immunity, alteration of apoptotic properties in favor of a rapid resolution of inflammation, as well as PMNs longevity based upon a much more economical balance of protein synthesis and degradation.

 

我们在此报告法轮功修炼者中性粒细胞的细胞層面和分子层面的变化，这些变化可能導致免疫力增强、炎症快速消退、细胞凋亡特性改变以及蛋白质合成與降解層面上的更经济的平衡。

 

Research Data Sent to Dr. Tongwen Wang from Dr. Lili Feng

Chinese Article by Dr. Tongwen Wang at the Whole Elephant Institute 

 

Introduction and Figure 1:

介绍与数据图一

https://www.facebook.com/100001352005033/posts/3843344832387212/?d=n

Figure 2:

数据图二

https://www.facebook.com/100001352005033/posts/3843352522386443/?d=n

Figure 3:

数据图三

https://www.facebook.com/100001352005033/posts/3843359899052372/?d=n

Figure 4:

数据图四

https://www.facebook.com/100001352005033/posts/3843370059051356/?d=n

Figure 5:

数据图五

https://www.facebook.com/100001352005033/posts/3843375115717517/?d=n

Figure 6:

数据图六

https://www.facebook.com/100001352005033/posts/3843379532383742/?d=n

Figure 7:

数据图七

https://www.facebook.com/100001352005033/posts/3843383869049975/?d=n

Figure 8:

数据图八

https://www.facebook.com/100001352005033/posts/3843390465715982/?d=n

Conclusions:

研究结论：

Our studies suggest that Falun Gong practice alters immunity, apoptotic cell death, and protein metabolic rate in a systemic fashion. Our findings further suggest that a new paradigm is urgently needed to understand the holistic link between human mind, body and spirit.

我们的研究表明，法轮功修炼可以系统性地改变免疫力、细胞凋亡和蛋白质代谢率。我们的研究结果进一步表明，迫切需要一种新的范式来理解人类思想、身体和精神之间的整体联系。

There has been increasing interest in the phenomena of mind-body relationships, a subject that has not been subjected to systematic scientific investigation due to its complex nature. However, there is ample evidence accumulated throughout history to support the powerful physical effects of practices that are directed towards the mind or spirit.

人们对身心之关系现象越来越感兴趣，这个主题由于其复杂的性质而没有经过系统的科学研究。然而，历史上积累的大量证据支持通过精神思想实践而产生的强大物理效应。

Such practices include both religious and non-religious cultivation practices. In Western societies, faith-based religious practices are predominant while the Eastern culture emphasizes the practice of physical and mental disciplines, such as yoga, meditation, tai qi (tai ji quan), karate and most recently, an ancient cultivation practice, Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa www.falundafa.org

 

身心灵之互动实践包括宗教和非宗教的修炼。在西方社会，以信仰为基础的宗教活动占主导地位，而东方文化则强调身心修炼，如瑜伽、冥想、太极（太极拳）、空手道以及在近期出現的古老修炼：法轮功，又称法轮大法www.falundafa.org

 

While the health benefits of yoga, meditation and prayer have been documented and partly recognized by the general public, the mechanisms that underlie such apparent effects are not well understood at the physiological level. Very little has been documented and systematically studied at the cellular or molecular level. On the other hand, major technological progress has been made in the area of biological research that now allows rapid and precise monitoring of many of the detailed molecular events inside of a single cell. Many diseases can now be traced to the level of individual molecular defects in cells. Thus, it is now feasible to tackle the phenomena that are consistently associated with spiritual practices by mapping the physical manifestations of the effects of these practices at the cellular and molecular level.

虽然瑜伽、冥想和祈祷的健康益处已被记录并部分被公众认可，但在生理层面上并没有很好地理解这种明显影响背后的机制。在细胞或分子水平上记录和系统研究的很少。另一方面，生物研究领域取得了重大技术进步，现在可以快速准确地监测单个细胞内的许多详细分子事件。许多疾病现在可以追溯到细胞中单个分子缺陷的水平。因此，现在可以通过在细胞和分子水平上绘制这些实践影响的物理表现来解密与精神实践始终相关的现象。

 

There are several well-recognized difficulties in conducting research on mind-body subject. First, it is commonly observed that there is a wide range of variability among practitioners of the same practice. Second, there also has been the lack of a large number of practitioners who consistently practicing one type of practice. Because of these factors, the results of such studies are frequently questioned for not being generally representative or applicable. The practice of Falun Gong, however, exhibits unique features that allow more systematic studies of mind-body relationships. These features are:

对身心主题进行研究有几个公认的困难。首先，通常可以观察到，同一实践的从业者之间存在广泛的差异。其次，也一直缺乏大量坚持一种功法的修炼者。由于这些因素，此类研究的结果经常因不具有普遍代表性或适用性而受到质疑。然而，法轮功的修炼展现出独特的特征，可以更系统地研究身心关系。这些特點是：

1) In comparison to many other practices, Falun Gong exhibits very dramatic and powerful effects on the practitioners. During 1998, five independent health surveys were conducted in Beijing, Wuhan, the region around the city of Dalian , and Guandong Province by local medical institutions. They are the most systematic and comprehensive health surveys done on Falun Dafa practitioners to date. The surveys concluded that Falun Gong had provided significant health and fitness benefits to more than 98% of its practitioners.

1) 与许多其他功法相比，法轮功对修炼者的影响非常显着和强大。 1998年，地方医疗机构在北京、武汉、大连市周边地区和广东省进行了五次独立健康调查。这是迄今为止对法轮大法修炼者进行的最系统、最全面的健康调查。调查得出的结论是，法轮功为 98% 以上的修炼者提供了显著的健康和健身益处。

2) There are a large number of Falun Gong practitioners, currently already exceeding 100 million (www.faluninfo.net). Furthermore, the practice itself emphasizes the principal of "Do Not Follow Two Paths at the Same Time," so the practitioners are consistently only practicing Falun Gong.

2）法轮功修炼者数量众多，目前已超过1亿（www.faluninfo.org）。再者，此功法本身强調“不二法门"的原则，所以真正的法轮功修炼者始终只修炼法轮功。

3) There is a wide range of Falun Gong practitioners, differing in gender, age, professions, and cultural or ethnic background. Despite such different backgrounds, the healing effects on different diseases are consistent. Thus the health effects from practicing Falun Gong appear not to be linked to many factors that have been considered to complicate the interpretations of studies of similar nature.

3）法轮功学员范围广，性别、年龄、职业、文化或民族背景各异。尽管背景不同，但对不同疾病的效果是一致的。因此，修炼法轮功对健康的影响似乎与许多被认为使类似性质研究的解释复杂化的因素无关。

These features of Falun Gong suggest that modern biological or biophysical technologies can be applied here to reach a deeper level of confirmation or understanding of the molecular manifestation of spiritual practice on our human body.

法轮功的这些特点表明，在这里可以应用现代生物或生物物理技术，更深层次地确认或理解修炼在我们人体上的分子表现。

Since the immune system has been previously shown to be highly sensitive to environmental and psychological changes, we carried out studies to examine the effect of Falun Gong practice on the polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), which are relatively short-lived but are produced in large quantity during the immune responses and play critical roles in innate immunity.

由于免疫系统先前已被证明对环境和心理变化高度敏感，因此我们进行了研究以观察法轮功修炼对多形核白细胞（PMN）的影响，这些白细胞寿命相对较短，但产生量很大在免疫反应过程中并在先天免疫中发挥关键作用。

Studies at the cellular level reveal increased bactericidal activities of PMNs from Falun Gong practitioners. Furthermore, Falun Gong practitioners' PMNs exhibit increased life span in the absence of stimulation from agents such as bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), but increased apoptosis upon LPS stimulation. Such changes in apoptotic responses of PMNs suggest an alteration of PMN functions in favor of a rapid resolution of inflammation.

细胞水平的研究揭示了法轮功修炼者中性粒细胞的杀菌活性增强。此外，在没有细菌脂多糖 (LPS) 等药物刺激的情况下，法轮功修炼者的中性粒细胞寿命延长，但在 LPS 刺激下细胞凋亡增加。 PMN 细胞凋亡反应的这种变化表明 PMN 功能的改变有利于炎症的快速消退。

We also applied micro-array technology to examine changes in levels of gene expression in PMNs. Drastic system-level changes in gene expression were detected in PMNs of Falun Gong practitioners, while little changes were detected among non-practitioners, despite the differences in age and gender.

我们还应用微阵列技术来检查 PMN 中基因表达水平的变化。在法轮功修炼者的中性粒细胞中检测到基因表达在系统水平上的剧烈变化，而在非修炼者中检测到的变化很小，尽管存在年龄和性别差异。

Most interestingly, the genes that are regulated in a consensus fashion among the practitioners can be grouped into several functional clusters, which are directly linked to PMN functions in anti-viral immunity, apoptotic property and possibly longevity based upon a much more economical balance of protein synthesis and degradation.

最有趣的是，法轮功学员们的中性粒白细胞之基因表达展现出一致性的、系統性的變化，這些有大幅度變化的基因可以分为几个功能簇，它们直接与中性粒細胞在抗病毒性免疫力、细胞凋亡特性和可能的​​寿命变化方面相关联，并基于一个更经济的蛋白质合成与降解之平衡。

Discussion:

討論：

Biology is the study of life phenomena. The biological research in the last century has taken the approach of dissecting systems into parts, studying the parts in a defined setting with controlled parameters, gathering information about the parts in separate settings, identifying the functions of the parts in the defined settings following a defined hypothesis, and then drawing conclusions regarding the function and functional mechanisms of the parts in the defined system. These studies have now brought us face to face with an extremely complex picture of molecular interactions: a dynamic web of communication between different molecules inside of a cell and the extremely complex and dynamic regulation of the communication web by signals from outside the cell.

生物学是对生命现象的研究。上个世纪的生物学研究采取了将系统分解成部分的方法，研究具有受控参数的定义设置中的部分，收集单独设置中的部分的信息，根据定义的设置识别定义设置中的部分的功能。假设，然后得出关于定义系统中各部分的功能和功能机制的结论。这些研究现在让我们面对一个极其复杂的分子相互作用图景：细胞内不同分子之间的动态通信网络，以及来自细胞外部的信号对通信网络的极其复杂和动态的调节。

For the human body, the complexity is further escalated to a uniquely new and high level. At the level of a human body, the communication between a human being and the environment takes a different form in our range of perception, which is something that we can no longer easily detect with physical means.

对于人体来说，复杂性进一步提升到了一个独特的新高度。在人体层面，人与环境之间的交流在我们的感知范围内呈现出不同的形式，这是我们不再能够轻易用物理手段检测到的。

The signals from outside are manifested at a finer or subtler manner. There are vehicles that mediate the exchange of these signals between different human beings. Language in different forms is one of the most well recognized vehicles. Many of the forms of artistic expression of the human spirit can be viewed as vehicles of for these signals: music, painting, sculpture. These human communication "signals" generate "readouts" on the physical body with names such as love, hatred, fear, anger, sad, happiness, which currently belong to the social, psychological and spiritual realms of studies.

来自外部的信号以更精细或更微妙的方式表现出来。有媒介可以调解不同人之间这些信号的交换。不同形式的语言是最广为人知的工具之一。人类精神的许多艺术表现形式都可以被视为这些信号的载体：音乐、绘画、雕塑。这些人类交流“信号”在身体上产生“读数”，名称如爱、恨、恐惧、愤怒、悲伤、幸福，目前属于社会、心理和精神领域的研究。

Such abstract signals in fact exert great impact on the biological systems of a human body but are currently placed outside of the field of biology. This is primarily due to the fact that current biological research is based on in vitro systems or animal models and therefore cannot test these unique "signals" that are sensed only by the human body and mind.

这种抽象的信号实际上对人体的生物系统产生了很大的影响，但目前被置于生物学领域之外。这主要是因为目前的生物学研究基于体外系统或动物模型，因此无法测试这些仅由人体和心灵感知的独特“信号”。

It is therefore important to recognize the limitations of our current knowledge in the field of biology, since it is derived from studies on non-human subjects and using artificial man-made systems. This then raises an important question about what approaches we should take to study the subject of human life phenomena, that is human biology, which is directly relevant to human medicine.

因此，重要的是要认识到我们目前在生物学领域知识的局限性，因为它源自对非人类受试者的研究并使用人造系统。这就提出了一个重要的问题，即我们应该采取什么方法来研究人类生命现象的主题，即与人类医学直接相关的人类生物学。

The intrusive approaches biologists have been taking to study other organisms are not applicable to studying the human body. The unique mind-body characteristics of a human being cannot be mimicked by any animal models. A new paradigm needs to be established to study the biology of the human body in the least intrusive manner.

生物学家一直在研究其他生物体的侵入性方法不适用于研究人体。任何动物模型都无法模仿人类独特的身心特征。需要建立一个新的范式，以最少侵入性的方式研究人体生物学。

Recognizing the unique communication signals that regulate the biology of a human body, we also need to find a way to combine the studies of these human signals, which belong to separate fields of the social sciences, with studies of human biology. In this sense, human biology is at a very unique position to unify many areas of modern sciences, which have been fragmented and considered un-related throughout history.

认识到调节人体生物学的独特通信信号，我们还需要找到一种方法，将这些属于不同社会科学领域的人体信号研究与人类生物学研究结合起来。从这个意义上说，人类生物学处于一个非常独特的位置，可以统一现代科学的许多领域，这些领域在历史上一直是支离破碎的并被认为是不相关的。

While such studies were not possible due to limited knowledge of the basic components of the human body, we are, however, facing an important revolution in this area, due to the recent development in the areas of genomics, proteomics, nanotechnology and computational biology. These technologies will provide us the ability to make "snap shots" of the molecular communication patterns occurring inside of a cell in a living organism.

虽然由于对人体基本成分的了解有限，无法进行此类研究，但由于基因组学、蛋白质组学、纳米技术和计算生物学领域的最新发展，我们正面临这一领域的一场重要革命。这些技术将使我们能够对生物体细胞内发生的分子通信模式进行“快照”。

It is based upon one such technology that we now observe how a spiritual practice can profoundly influence a genome-wide gene expression pattern and shift cell functions to a more economical state.

正是基于这样一种技术，我们现在观察到精神实践如何能够深刻影响全基因组基因表达模式并将细胞功能转变为更经济的状态。

A thorough verification and expansion of the studies of the impact of practicing Falun Gong to population health and to gene expression/cell function of human cells will provide a solid proof of concept in this new area of human biology and lay the foundation for future human system studies of a similar nature.

修煉法輪功对人類健康和人类细胞基因表达/细胞功能影响之研究应該得到彻底的验证和扩展，这個研究项目将为人类生物学这一新领域提供坚实的概念证明，并为未来的性質相似的人体系统研究奠定基础。

Some surveys on health benefits of practicing Falun Gong:

以下是关於修煉法輪功的健康普查：

Beijing:

北京

https://en.minghui.org/eng/science_eng/survey98_1eng.htm

Taiwan:

台灣

Article One

Article Two

North America and more:

北美及更多：

https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/55230