My name is Zhou Chunwang. I once published an article My Metamorphosis on Kaiwind.com, in which I described my background and the painful experience in practicing Falun Gong. Now, when I look back and think of those ridiculous things I have done when I was obsessed with Falun Gong, I feel very incredible.
I had begun practicing Falun Gong since 1998. I joined the organization just because Li Hongzhi had said that the people who practice Falun Gong needn't take medicine or have any injection when fall ill, for it can clear their bodies up…I wondered if there was really such a good thing and "merciful" man in the world?
With such an expectation I became a Falun Gong practitioner. After I joined the organization I got to know that the practitioners said they were "cultivating" both their body and mind instead of "doing simple practice".
As a beginner I did not understand the so-called "tenet" well at that time. At the very beginning the assistant told me that he could not teach me too "profound" things unless I improved after a long time of cultivating.
With in-depth cultivation, I gradually grew to be an experienced cultivator from a fresher. Under the long-time gradual influence of Falun Gong theory, my realization on "tenet" had differed sharply with the period of body building. To follow the instruction of the Master I went to Beijing many times to safeguard Falun Dafa, let go of fame, material interest, and emotion,, and even opposed my parents to insist on practicing Falun Gong. I believed that the Master would surely eliminate karma for me when I was diligent enough.
One day, I suddenly felt itchy on my wrists and under my oxters. At first, scratching several times could ease the symptom. As a cultivator I thought it was a good phenomenon of eliminating Karma. But after a period, the pruritic area expanded. Severe itching appeared in all the wrinkles of my body and my wrists were scratched to broken many times. Oh, maybe it was because I was far from excellence and still had a long way to go. I thought if I worked harder, the karma would surely not interfere me. So I learned the Fa and cultivated Falun Gong with double effort to eliminate Karma.
Seeing my great pain from itching, my mother strongly recommended the best dermatology hospital and advised me to see a doctor. I contemptuously said: "It is different from your common people's disease. It's body-purifying. It's eliminating Karma. The body of the cultivating people is indestructible."
I felt my disease was indeed unusual at that time. The symptom only appeared at night and disappeared in the day. If it was not eliminating Karma, what it should be? It was a test from my honorable Master and a chance to improve my level, I guessed.
After another period of time, the pruritus got even more serious. I felt itchy not only in the wrinkles, but also in other parts of my body. Though there was no pimple or papule, I felt unbearably urticant. During that time I dare not go shopping, for I felt as if there were 100 millions of urticant landmines on my body, which might explode together at any time and any where.
The itch appeared not only during the night, but during all day long. Every time when I felt the sharp unbearable itch, I would rush into the bedroom and scratched around from head to foot. When the symptom relieved, I felt ache with my hands and found there were stamps of fingernails all over.
Seeing my pains, my mother suggested me see a doctor. I refused and explained: "It is not a common skin disease. Even I got an itch all over the body, you see, it is not on my face. Is it a common skin disease? It's just eliminating Karma!" My mother felt both funny and annoying for my bigotry.
Time had just flown from the first month of the lunar year to summer holiday. My Karma-eliminating had last half a year. However, I suffered great pains every day and even couldn't bear the thin clothes. My skin was too sensitive to withstand a gust of wind, not mention reading books to learn the tenet. I also found difficult in swallowing food and falling into sleep, so I became exceptional peevish. When the itch broke out, it had been of no use in scratching. I could do nothing but banging my head against the wall to relieve the pain. At that time I even thought: it would be good to be dead, then I should have no pain.
Just then my family members consulted a medical encyclopedia behind me and told me that the itch was not eliminating Karma, but a skin disease named "scabies". Sarcoptic mites parasitize in the wrinkle of humans' skin and behave actively at night. They pass through humans' skin tissue just like we pass through a tunnel. In general they parasitize on the skin below humans' necks. The symptom is extremely itchy and has strong infectivity.
After knowing the truth, all my family members were extremely uptight, but I still stuck to my mind of eliminating Karma and refused to see a doctor. Since then, I wasn't allowed to walk around freely. My family members confined me in my room. I was assigned a private chair and a special position for eating. I could not use the public toilet seat in the washing room. My clothes were washed individually.
As a Falun Gong practitioner my dignity was intensively stimulated. I made up my mind not to see a doctor, hoping my Master would restore my health and the foul disease could recover without treatment. As a result, the itch got more and more serious.
Finally, I could not bear the pain. With the family's advice, I went to the hospital. The doctor prescribed only one kind of medicine, sulfur ointment, 10 pipes, and each costed 1 yuan. He asked me to embrocate all over the body once a day. On the third day, the itch disappeared. After a week, I was completely cured.
It happened many years ago and I have got rid of the villainous Falun Gong, but when I recalled it, I still cannot help goosefleshing all over. Scabies is easy to cure, but the pain in my heart may take me a lifetime to heal.
