Nervous Gastritis Healed
by Dat Khieu Khong (Headquarters; Miami branch)
 In
1986, my family left Viet Nam in search of a better life and came to Japan.
Life in a foreign country was not easy, and my encounter with internal
martial arts marked a very important turning point in my life. In about
1991, I saw a poster in a train advertising AJSMAF and came to observe
classes, upon which I began to train in T'ai-chi. Until that time, I worked
in the daytime and went to school at night. In addition, after coming
home, I practiced judo. After a while, I had started to become weak and
developed nervous gastritis. Stress caused dysfunction of the stomach
and even led to small perforations in the stomach wall. The doctor gave
me bags full of medicine, and I became quite depressed. But about 6 months
after starting T'ai-chi, I started to feel so good that I noticed I was
forgetting to take my medicine. So I purposely went for a while without
taking it at all-and, to my surprise, my stomach got better. When I mentioned
it to Master Jibiki, he told me that T'ai-chi helps restore balance
to the autonomic nervous system, and I believe that the return to balance
gained through practicing T'ai-chi healed my stomach. While it is a superlative
martial art that can be used most effectively in self-DEFENSE, it is also
marvelously effective in helping heal disease. Now that I am better,
I have moved with my family to the United States, where I live in Florida
and teach this great art to others. |
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