TIMES NEWS NETWORK [MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2002 09:36:10 PM]

NEW DELHI: More and more modern medicine practitioners are joining the spiritualists who believe cure from illnesses comes not from drugs but from motivating the mind itself.

The latest to talk about the body-mind connection is an associate professor from the department of orthopedic surgery, Cheng Hsih Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, Dr Man-Kuan AU, who was in Delhi recently. "Everything comes from the mind. Outside treatment is not the solution," he says.

Dr AU, who practises Falun Dafa, a set of five gentle Chinese exercises and meditation which are aimed at opening the energy channels of the body at the same time, says the patient needs to be told that he himself is the solution to his problems.

So, Dr AU treats only those patients in the conventional manner who he thinks would not be receptive to this advice. An illness in the body is actually a reflection of how it has been treated. In fact, this is the starting point. Patients are asked to look back to examine what is wrong in their past lives.

Of course, "if someone who has damaged his joints completely comes to me, I have no choice but to recommend replacement," says this 54-year-old surgeon, who has been trained in joint replacement. However, he adds that many things start very early in the body. The problem of knee pain, for instance, may have begun much before the symptoms actually start appearing, he adds.

Modern medicine, however, he says, fights the results and not the origin of the cause. "For my patients, I try to know what is their level of understanding and attachments," says Dr AU. "If you use your body carefully, it will keep working properly. If you don't use it, the tissues will decay and if you overuse it, there is bound to be injury," he says.

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