g and Henan a decade ago concluded that 94percent of patients would improve after using his medicine。The chance of a relapse was estimated at 7 percent。

Drawing on experiences in the field，Lou Duofeng overthrew the prevailing idea held by the Western medical community that decayed bones cannot renew。

Following his own theory，he first set out to heal titanic spinal disease-a perpetually painful backbone resulting from continual contraction of back muscles。

After he was named one of the top 500 experts in traditional Chinese medicine in 1991，he told his brother and son he wanted them to compile China’s first encyclopedia of rheumatism。

In the following years the Lous，joined by 50 experts in the field，conducted a random survey among 18000 villagers。

They were astonished to learn that 14.1 percent of respondents suffered from numb limbs or back pain and 12.6 percent of those that contracted the disease were crippled。

The family has decided to build