Tong
Ren: RESEARCH STUDY BY millie pepple
Millie Pepple has been a nurse working primarily in
emergency medicine and critical care for 33 years. Her
study was conducted
under the direction of the OCI Research Committee and the leadership of Hilary
Bender, Ph.D., Th.D.
The
purpose of this study is to determine the effects of Tong Ren therapy on people
receiving treatments through conference calls.
The project will examine the variety of health conditions that are
treated on the conference calls, and both the immediate and long-term results.
1.
A review of conference call data will reveal whether or not the majority
of people seeking healing through Tong Ren conference calls have increased
comfort and relaxation following the call.
2.
This study will reveal whether or not group treatments, as used in
conference calls, may promote healing in the individual person requesting
treatment, as well as others on the call.
3. This study will reveal that the conference call patrons show signs of healing as witnessed by medical diagnostic data.
According
to the OCI Healing Research Foundation, Inc., Tong Ren healing is defined as a
therapy developed by Tom Tam, as an integral part of the Tom Tam Healing
Systems. Tong Ren is a form of energy therapy for restoring health and vitality.
Tong Ren is based on a belief that a disease is related to interruptions,
or blockages, in the body’s natural flow of chi, neural bioelectricity, blood,
or hormones. Tong Ren seeks to
remove these blockages, restoring the body’s natural ability to heal itself,
even when illnesses are chronic, debilitating, or otherwise untreatable.
Tong
Ren combines western knowledge of anatomy and physiology with the ancient
principle of ‘chi’, or life force energy, to create what many consider to be
a powerful new healing modality. Drawing
on the Jungian theory of the ‘collective unconscious,’ Tong Ren is believed
to access energy from this universal source and direct it to the patient.
Because no physical contact is involved or necessary, Tong Ren is often
practiced as distance healing.
In
a typical therapy session, the Tong Ren practitioner uses a small human
anatomical model as an energetic representation of the patient, tapping on
targeted points on the model with a lightweight magnetic hammer.
The practitioner directs chi to blockage points corresponding to the
patient’s condition, breaking down resistance at these points.
As blood flow, neural transmission, and hormone reception are restored,
the body is then able to heal.
Tong
Ren therapy is delivered in a variety of settings.
People may choose to receive individual treatments in a clinic setting
with the therapist or over the telephone. Many
people, all over the world, are treated in group settings with a group of
therapists. This is referred to as
a “Guinea Pig” class. Live broadcast guinea pig classes are also available
at www.tongrenstation.com.
Another
method for receiving a Tong Ren treatment is through conference calls.
It is a group treatment session where each person wishing to be treated
calls into the conference call telephone number from home.
There are specific conference calls for individuals with cancer, thyroid
disease, anxiety and depression, arthritis and other autoimmune diseases,
diabetes and metabolism and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
One call each week is specifically for people who have Spanish as their
primary language.
There
are calls on Tuesday and Thursday evenings that are open to people with any
physical or emotional concern. These
particular calls are the focus of this study. People who are seeking healing are
initially screened for name, diagnosis, chief complaint and pain level.
They are treated in groups with people with a similar diagnosis and after
the group treatment each person is spoken to individually.
Inquiries are made regarding any sensations that may have been noted and
if the caller has had complaints of pain, they are asked about the status of
their pain. Brief individual
treatments are provided as needed. Each
call includes a moderator who obtains the information and manages the call, and
a therapist that calls the points to be tapped. Many times other therapists will
call in to assist with the treatments.
Information
for this study was obtained from conference calls occurring on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings between January 29, 2008 and May 27, 2008. Information
obtained included the caller’s first name, the diagnosis, the chief complaint,
and the sensation noted during the treatment.
Some callers shared their pain levels on a 0-10 scale before and after
the treatment and some callers shared the results of scans and ultrasounds.
People
who are not available to give post-treatment feedback were not included in this
study. This may occur when a very
ill person is treated at the request of a family member or friend.
Other times, when the therapist asks to speak with a person after the
group treatment, they do not respond. Sometimes,
the following week these people will explain to the moderator that they had
fallen asleep during the previous week’s treatment.
Initial
information and follow-up information was obtained on 500 caller instances.
The percentage of callers who received favorable responses to their
treatment and the variety of caller responses will be identified.
There were many callers that called into the conference call multiple
times, so the actual number of different callers, their gender, and their locale
will also be identified, as well as the health concerns of these callers.
An analysis of pre and post-pain levels received will be obtained.
Any diagnostic testing shared by the callers will be identified.
Twenty
conference calls were monitored for data collection during the first 5 months of
2008. There were 126 different
callers involved in this study with 72% of the callers being female and 28% of
the callers being male. The number
of calls made by each caller varied between 1 and 19 times with 89 callers
calling in less than 5 times and 15 callers calling in 10 or more times.
Callers access the conference call from all over the United States,
including Hawaii. There have been
callers from Canada, and one caller from France.
Forty-five
percent of the callers, or a total of 57 callers have been diagnosed with
cancer. The cancers include brain, breast, ovarian, lung, adrenal, uterine,
esophageal, stomach, prostate, appendix, renal, bone, cervical, vulvar, tonsil,
thyroid, colon, tongue, anal, skin, bile duct, pancreatic, sarcoma, lymphoma,
and leukemia. The cancer with the
highest incidence of callers is breast. Some
callers receiving Tong Ren treatments for cancer are concomitantly receiving
chemotherapy and radiation treatments. But, many reported relief of symptoms
related to chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Other
frequently seen complaints included muscular-skeletal pain, including neck,
back, hip and knee pain. There are a number of callers seeking assistance with
infections. The sites include
dental, ear, kidney, toe, cervix, prostate, and pneumonia.
There
is one caller who has been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.
There is one with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and several who have been
diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. There
are a few with complaints related to the eye, including blepharitis, visual
disturbances, cataracts and ptosis. There
are callers with anxiety, depression, anger, and cognitive dysfunction.
There are callers with allergies, chronic fatigue syndrome, hormone imbalance, hypothyroidism, hyperlipidemia,
Parkinson’s, tinnitus, eczema, migraine headaches, as well as other health
concerns.
Of
the 500 total calls, 98% of the callers or 490 total callers voiced positive
effects such as relaxation, warmth, and partial or total pain-relief. Of the ten people who did not notice positive effects, four
were first time callers, who called into future conference calls and on each
subsequent call noted positive effects. One
went on to call an additional 17 times during the course of this study, and had
positive responses that were both subjective and objective in nature.
This phenomenon may be related to anxiety related to the first call or
may be related to the positive cumulative effects seen with Tong Ren treatments.
There
were four call encounters where positive effects were denied by callers that
were experiencing a great deal of distress related to cancer or cancer related
treatments. One remained very
uncomfortable on two different conference calls.
She had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had a great deal of
discomfort related to ascites. One
had been diagnosed with stomach cancer and her complaints of extreme nausea did
not remit following the treatment. Another
had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
He complained of abdominal discomfort related to constipation. At the end of the call, his abdominal discomfort was not
significantly altered.
During
the first call of this study, a caller denied feeling any positive effects.
It is unknown if this was her first call, but on subsequent conference
calls, she voiced positive effects. On
the final call of this study, a caller denied feeling any positive effects. It
is unknown what effects she would receive from potential subsequent calls.
Sensations
experienced by the callers ranged from relaxation and warmth to partial or total
relief of symptoms. Some callers described a buzzing or vibration type
sensation.
Callers had a wide range of complaints and sensations
with a brief synopsis as follows:
§ Shoulder
pain with immediate improvement in range of motion and decrease level of pain
§ Leukoplakia
noting mouth tingling
§ Neuropathy
with numbness lessened
§ Trigeminal
Neuralgia with relief of facial pain
§ Shingles
with burning discomfort relieved
§ Amyloidosis
noting that his weakness and shortness of breath was lessened and that he was
able to ambulate with less distress
§ Allergies
and sinus congestion noting the breathing was cleared
§ Prostatic
hypertrophy noting sensation of electrical vibration down the back of his left
thigh
§ Hand
numbness with complete return of sensation to the hand
§ Dental
abscesses with sensation of energy moving through the lower jaw
§ Ptosis
noting that sinuses were clearer than they had been in years
§ Hip
pain, not mentioned during interview, improved
§ Bell’s
Palsy with eye pain relieved, and speech improved
§ Ear
infection with total relief of ear pain
§ Cervical
cancer with warmth in the pelvis
§ Colon
cancer with warmth in the rectal area
§ Esophogeal
cancer noting easy swallowing and released sense of blockage
§ Redness
at site of tick bite notes that area of redness is smaller
§ Lung
cancer with chest pain noting chest pain totally relieved.
§ Two
back to back callers with abdominal pain related to liver metastasis noted
complete pain relief
§ Leukemia
noting that she feels great and stating that she feels like ‘joy has washed
over her’
At
times callers will note relief of their symptoms while another caller is being
treated. This occurred during one
call with two callers with headaches and later occurred with two callers with
visual disturbances.
Another
incident occurred on April 1st, again suggesting that energy goes where it’s
needed, regardless of where it is directed.
A Tong Ren therapist called into the conference call to observe the call.
Neither the moderator nor the therapist directing the call, were aware
that she was on the call. Following
the call, she contacted the therapist and told him of her persistent asthma. She reported that when the therapist did thymus work on a
caller, she noted significant improvement in her asthma symptoms.
Of
the 500 patient encounters, 239 had complaints of pain. Pre and post-pain levels, on a 0-10 scale, were received on
25 or 10.5% of the callers. When
comparing the mean pre-pain level and the mean post-pain level, the overall pain
level was reduced by 64.6% following the treatments. Eighteen of these callers
were diagnosed with cancer. Two
callers complained of musculoskeletal pain, two complained of migraine headaches
and one had been diagnosed with prostatitis.
Twenty-seven
callers offered pre-pain levels, but not post-pain levels.
The pain source, pre-pain level and response to the treatment are as
follows:
§ Cancer—Level
7—‘Pain Better’
§ Musculoskeletal
(M/S)—Level 3-‘Pain better’
§ Cancer—Level
7—‘Better’
§ M/S—Level
2—‘Better’
§ Cancer-Level
6-‘Better’
§ Cancer-Level
5—‘Much better’
§ Cancer-Level
2-‘Better’
§ Cancer-Level
9-‘Comfortable now’
§ Cancer-Level
7-‘Pain released’
§ Cancer-Level
4-‘Pain releasing’
§ M/S—Level
3-‘Relaxed’
§ M/S-Level8-‘Pain
better’
§ Cancer-Level
7-‘Relaxed’
§ Headache-Level
5-‘Warm’
§ Cancer-Level
6-‘Pain improved’
§ Cancer-Level
7-‘Better’
§ Cancer-Level
3-‘Feels better’
§ Cancer-Level
6-‘Warm, relaxed’
§ Testicular
pain-Level 5-‘Pain improved’
§ Cancer-Level
4-‘Pain better’
§ Cancer-Level
5-‘Pain improved’
§ M/S-Level
7-‘Fell asleep-Pain decreased’
§ Cancer-Level
4-‘Pain better’
§ Cancer-Level
7-‘Pain better’
§ M/S-Level
1—‘Feels good’
§ M/S-Level 7-‘Pain reduced’
The callers share, not only the immediate effects of the
treatments, but also the effects noted during the week following the treatment
and results of scans and ultrasounds. The
diagnosis and results are as follows:
§ Bilateral
breast cancer—PET scan negative
§ Stage
4 breast cancer—Cancer cleared from lungs and brain on scan
§ Brain
cancer-MRI shows no tumor growth
§ Renal
cancer with foot blisters related to chemo- blisters healing
§ Liver
cancer-scan shows tumor size decreased
§ Skin
cancer incised-wounds healed more quickly than expected
§ Stage
4 renal cancer-Scan shows slowed growth of sacral and chest tumors
§ Stage
4 lung cancer-Scan shows 1 tumor to be gone and others not growing; The previous
scan showed that 9 tumors had been eliminated
§ Colon
Cancer-CT scan shows no cancer
§ Breast
Cancer—CT scan stable
§ Lung
Cancer-Scan shows no tumor growth
§ Esophageal
Cancer-Scan shows esophageal tumors to be shrinking, but liver tumor larger
§ Ovarian
Cancer-Laboratory tumor markers normal
§ Papillary
thyroid cancer-Ultrasound shows calcified lymph nodes to be gone
§ Breast cancer-MRI shows no new growth and softening of the tumor
The
conference calls, that were monitored, had four different therapists leading the
calls. The percentage of callers
that voiced positive effects varied between 97.6% and 100% in each of the four
therapists. It may lead to the inference that the positive responses were
related to the Tong Ren therapy rather than a specific therapist. This is one area where further study may be warranted.
It
is difficult to determine how significantly pain is reduced with cancer versus
other disorders due to the low number of pre and post-pain levels.
But, with the pre and post-pain levels, and the pre-pain level and
qualitative responses, pain of all types seems to respond favorably to Tong Ren
therapy.
The
scan results are extremely positive. These
results may not be fully attributable to the conference calls.
It is known that some of the callers also attend guinea pig classes and
some have individual treatments. Also,
an unknown number of callers also receive chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
The number of repeat callers would suggest that they believe that the
conference calls play a significant role in their healing.
This
research project examined Tong Ren conference calls that were open to all
callers, during the first 5 months of 2008.
The research in this study supported this researcher’s objectives.
The study showed that the majority of callers had positive responses to
the treatments, such as pain relief, warmth, and relaxation.
It was also noted that the treatments were used with great effectiveness
concomitantly with Western medicine treatments to counteract the adverse effects
of the chemotherapeutic agents.
Group
treatments were found to be very effective at treating the intended recipient,
as well as callers with similar symptoms. Scan
reports shared by the callers diagnosed with cancer reveal signs of healing in
these callers.
This study may be useful in the promotion of Tong Ren conference calls for persons seeking healing who are unable to attend guinea pig classes or individual healing sessions. The study indicates that many people receive some perceived benefit, especially with pain relief and relaxation, as indicated by self-reported ratings and repeat calls. While further study may be warranted, this study suggests the effectiveness of Tong Ren therapy as a long distance healing modality.