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	PRESS RELEASE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL 
	YAN XIN QIGONG ASSOCIATION 6/26/00

		
	Dateline: June 26, 2000...
        Contact Name: Hui Wang
        Contact Phone: [201] 533-8374


The "Bigu" phenomenon, which occurs among certain Qigong 
practitioners, entails the cessation of eating solid food for periods 
of weeks to months and years while maintaining a normal function of 
daily life. During Bigu, people also experienced increased energy, 
mental clarity, and physical well-being and strength.

Over the weekend of June 24th-25th, close to 500 enthusiastic
scientists, scholars and people with actual Bigu experience descended 
on the picturesque campus of Penn State University for the first 
scientific conference on the "Bigu" phenomenon.   Endorsed by the 
University, this conference was proposed and chaired by Prof. Rustum 
Roy, a senior member of the National Academy of Engineering and the 
founding Director of Materials Research Laboratory at the University.  

The conference was jam-packed with exciting presentations. People from
all walks of life reported their Bigu experience, including medical
doctors, university professors who are practitioners of Yan Xin Qigong 
- a form of internal Qigong meditative exercise with an ancient 
history.  One of the more dramatic findings presented at this 
conference was the research by Dr. Daniel Li and his co-workers that 
showed the chemical difference and metabolic response that 
differentiates the Bigu state from fasting.

The majority of the attendees have advanced degrees in science and
technology, including over 150 Ph.D.’s. The obvious emphasis on
science is no surprise since the gathering on Bigu is officially 
titled "The New Century First National Conference on the Bigu 
Manifestation [without food], Health Effects and Scientific Research 
of Yan Xin Qigong."

Yan Xin Qigong belongs to a traditional, comprehensive and scientific
discipline newly formed and awaiting substantive exploration. Dr. Yan
Xin, well known as a leading explorer in Qigong scientific research, 
has initiated further interest in Qigong in Eastern and Western 
societies.  For almost twenty years Dr. Yan Xin has been conducting a 
series of advanced Qigong experiments in collaboration with leading 
health, science and educational institutions in China and the U.S.  
Results of these efforts have been published in authoritative science 
journals such as The Nature Journal, Biophysica Sinica and Materials 
Research Innovation.

The chair of the conference, Professor Roy, described Dr. Yan Xin’s
scientific work on Qigong as 'good science'.  The same view is shared
by the scientists at the conference. Dr. Yan Xin’s work is "within my 
window of acceptance," proclaimed Dr. Hans-Peter Duerr, successor and 
colleague of Werner Heisenberg, and past Director of Max-Planck 
Institute of Theoretical Physics in Munich.

The conference received good will letters from presidential candidate
George Bush,  Mayor of Philadelphia John Street, Nobel Laureate
Herbert Hauptman, Chinese Consul General in New York, Stephen Straus, 
the Director for National Center for Complementary and Alternative 
Medicine in NIH, and many more.

This Conference formally introduces to the Western academic community,
step-by-step, the Bigu phenomenon in Yan Xin Qigong as well as related
major scientific research results. It is also a scientific discourse
within the Eastern and Western philosophical and scientific systems
that will add significantly to human health and world peace.


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