(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Shao Chengluo, a 58-year-old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine from Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China, has been practicing medicine for over 20 years. He is known to be an excellent doctor with a kind heart, well respected by local villagers and his patients. Unfortunately Dr. Shao was sentenced to seven years in prison for practicing Falun Gong after China began to suppress it in July 1999. He has been incarcerated in Shandong Provincial Prison since July 21, 2006, and has been subjected to over 150 types of torture there. By March 2011, Dr. Shao had become skin and bones as the result of the brutalities he has suffered at the hands of prison guards. His health has been deteriorating and he is dying. His family has not been granted their visitation rights for three years.

Dr. Shao Chengluo

Dr. Shao Chengluo Suffered Over 100 Forms of Torture

Before he started practicing Falun Gong, Dr. Shao suffered from many illnesses that neither western nor Chinese medicine could cure, including cardiovascular, heart, severe cervical, and gallbladder diseases. Since he started practicing Falun Gong, all of his illnesses disappeared completely without any medical treatment. He enjoyed profound improvements in his physical and spiritual health and became steadfast in his faith in Falun Gong. However, his health was ruined in three years because of China’s persecution of Falun Gong.

The long litanies of torture inflicted upon Dr. Shao have manifested China’s police brutalities, including poking his body with sewing needles, brushing his rib cage repeatedly with a toothbrush or a wooden club, beating him up with a spiked club, a chair leg or a shoe, twisting his arms, putting pressure on his thighs, stepping on his stomach, brushing between his fingers with a toothbrush, breaking his ribs and breaking his arms. The prison guards would tie him up by his wrists and ankles behind his back until his torso formed an arch. They would then put him on top of an upside-down chair and knock over the chair which caused him to fall to the ground. They also pulled off his facial hair including his eyebrows. They broke his fingers, used a brush between his fingers, his rib cage or the wounds on his hip until the wounds festered. They injured his hip and then poured salt over the wounds, and they branded his legs with a hot iron. He was also subjected to brutal force-feeding, during which they knocked out two teeth with a screw driver.

Dr. Zhang Yunyi Died in an Attempt to Flee from Further Torture

Dr. Zhang Yunyi was a physician from Beijing Hospital of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine. The tragic story of Dr. Zhang is representative of what Falun Gong practitioners have experienced in China’s suppression of it during the past 12 years. A large number of medical doctors have been handicapped or killed because of the persecution. It is a severe loss for their patients and the Chinese society.

Dr. Zhang, a former attending physician from the Beijing Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital, was a kindhearted and well-known doctor before he died at 33 while fleeing from further persecution. In the summer of 2000, Dr. Zhang was arrested without any legal procedures. He was sentenced to one year in the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp where he was subjected to torture.

Dr. Zhang Yunyi, a traditional Chinese medical doctor

Dr. Zhang was released in July 2001, but police continued to harass him. He finally decided to leave home and went into hiding in Fujian Province, China. In August 2002, Dr. Zhang was arrested again in Fujian Province for practicing Falun Gong. He died while fleeing from further persecution.

Dr. Dai Xianming Died as a Result of Torture

Dr. Dai Xianming was a traditional Chinese medical doctor from Huangmei County, Hubei Province. He used to suffer from a myriad of illnesses before he started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. Since China began to suppress Falun Gong in 1999, Dr. Dai had been arrested four times because he refused to renounce his faith. He once tried to flee home and went into hiding to avoid further persecution.

At the end of March 2002, officers from the Huangmei County Police Station and Jiujiang City Police Department, Jiangxi Province, arrested Dr. Dai and incarcerated him in the Lushan Police Sub-Bureau. Dr. Dai suffered from police brutalities, and he was not released on bail until he was dying. Dr. Dai was tortured to death on June 16, 2006.

Dr. Hu Naiwen in Taiwan Shares His Wellness Secret

Medical doctors who practice Falun Gong in Taiwan face a completely different environment.

Dr. Hu Naiwen, a Falun Gong practitioner and Chinese medical doctor who has practiced medicine for over 20 years, was interviewed by Forever Green Monthly, a professional health magazine in Taiwan, for its October 2002 edition. In the article entitled “Wellness Secrets of Chinese Medical Doctors,” Dr. Hu shared that he had worked at Stanford University for more than a decade, but he was more focused on Chinese medicine and qigong before he started practicing Falun Gong, which opened a new window for him to the mysteries and the truth about life and health.

Dr. Hu Naiwen has been a host of Knowing Chinese Medicine at New Tang Dynasty Television for over 300 episodes

During the interview, Dr. Hu said that his wellness secret since he started practicing Falun Gong, has been following its teachings, and letting go of all desires and attachments. Dr. Hu, a picture of happiness, says he has good health and metabolism because of Falun Gong. In fact, he has never had to use his health insurance since he started practicing, and it has a lot to do with his wellness secret. Dr. Hu introduces Falun Gong to each and every client. In fact, he usually writes down the location of free Falun Gong nine-day classes on the back of his prescriptions and recommends his patients learn it if they are interested. During weekends and holidays, Dr. Hu can be seen hosting seminars all over Taiwan where he shares the health benefits of practicing Falun Gong from his experiences.

Dr. Wang Yuanpu in Taiwan: Zhuan Falun Is a “Ladder to Heaven”

According to a report by Today News on August 12, 2008, a three-day event entitled “Life Education: Body and Mind Health Workshop” held at Shanhua Middle School in Tainan, Taiwan has drawn a lot of participants. The topics include Chinese medicine, wellness, cultivation practice, secrets to happiness in life, and Falun Gong exercises. Dr. Wang Yuanpu, the event coordinator and a Falun Gong practitioner in Taiwan, shared that his many years of experience in practicing medicine has taught him that prevention is more important than treatment, and prevention depends on one’s wellness. He added that according to Chinese medicine, practicing qigong is the best approach to wellness. Therefore, Falun Gong was included in the wellness workshop.

Dr. Wang shared that he once wanted to avoid the monotonous life of practicing medicine after 25 years of practice, and he moved to Canada to study his Ph.D in western medicine. However, he found Falun Gong, which inspired him to study Chinese medicine. Dr. Wang said that Zhuan Falun (Falun Gong’s main study text) is the reason why he was able to finish his Ph.D degree in Chinese medicine. He described Zhuan Falun as a ladder to heaven.

Dr. Wang Yuanpu has been following Falun Gong’s teachings and spends a lot of time doing volunteer work. He often spends his spare time to share his free wellness secret by giving speeches at schools, corporations, government agencies and local communities. His wellness secret is practicing Falun Gong, and he reveres it as the best wellness secret.

Dr. Lin Gui in Taiwan Recommends Falun Gong in Her Speeches

Dr. Lin Gui is another Chinese medical doctor from Taiwan that often shares her experience of practicing at free Falun Gong workshops for schoolteachers. Dr. Lin Gui started to study Chinese medicine when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. After she was certified in Chinese medicine, she used acupuncture massage to treat her patients. One day Dr. Lin was fortunate to discover Falun Gong. As soon as she started practicing the exercises, she thought, “This is amazing! Falun Gong’s five exercises work on all the acupuncture points in the body!” She started telling her patients that it will take too long to massage acupuncture points and that they should go practice Falun Gong. Dr. Lin often shared her own miraculous experiences of practicing it and following the teachings to cultivate her xinxing. She recommends Falun Gong to everyone, and believes that one is most likely to become a better person by practicing it.

Schoolteachers attending the speech by Dr. Lin Gui about her experiences of practicing Falun Gong

People in China and Taiwan are both Chinese descendants sharing the same culture, language and ethnicity, but Falun Gong is met with two completely different fates on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. It is a strange phenomenon that demands public attention! Like all other Falun Gong practitioners, Chinese medical doctors in Taiwan who practice Falun Gong sincerely wish people in China will regain their freedom to practice as well.