Scientific Survey for Taiji Quan
Back in the early 1960s of last century, Professor Fan Zhenhua who worked in Shanghai Huashan Hospital, lead a medical research group to do a survey. He divided the 80-year-old patients who suffer various diseases into two groups by the condition whether they practice Taiji Quan. He detected the functions of various organs and the result is that the organ of the recession elderly people practicing Taiji Quan can be delayed 10 to 20 years. In the 1980s, they also published a paper showing that Taiji Quan was able to slow down the speed of aging of pituitary gland. Pituitary gland promote adrenaline-secreting and thyrotropin-secreting, which therefore promotes the body metabolism. Well adjusted human endocrine undoubtedly slows down the body functions may be the process of degeneration. People often note that the appearance f aging, but in fact, the human body is a whole. So, we need to pay attention to the recession of organs and definitely Taiji Quan is helpful for our body.