THE “quantum information water” claimed by a training course’s tutors to be a cure for a tumor is actually bottled water mixed with human urine and hair, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

    A 46-year-old Shenzhen woman jumped to her death from a building after joining the mysterious training course in February. During the seven-day course, participants weren’t allowed to eat anything and drank only fruit juice. They couldn’t leave the hotel where they were staying, and they had to do mindful walking for at least seven hours a day in the training room.

    One of the tutors, Deng Junyun, claimed he was a qigong head coach who had studied under 41 masters. He told the participants that the “quantum information water” he produced could cure many diseases.

    “A bottle of ‘quantum information water’ is priced at 3,000 pounds (US$3,852) in the United Kingdom and sold for US$3,000 in America. The price of the water’s manufacturing equipment — a quantum device — is above 450,000 yuan (US$65,345) in China,” he said.

    Deng said that he could make over 100 bottles of the water each day with the quantum device, but participants would have to provide their own hair and urine as raw materials. According to him, the water is a mixture of a person’s hair and urine diluted by the quantum device.

    He said patients could either drink or spray the water on their skin, and they could repeatedly refill the bottle with potable water and the water would remain effective for 10 years.

    According to Deng, a Lanzhou participant’s sarcoma disappeared after he sprayed the water on his body for three days, and another patient with a skin disease fully recovered after using the water.

    He Hailing, a participant who had joined the seventh training course, told other trainees that her walnut-sized tumor had disappeared after she participated in the course. She said that she had produced 2,000 boxes of okra enzymes infused with Deng’s “quantum information water,” which were said to be effective for treating diabetes. She offered 32 free boxes to participants who volunteered to test the enzymes’ efficacy during the course.

    Chen Haixian, a registered psychologist, said brainwashing usually works when people are trapped in a closed space and told the same things repeatedly with high levels of mental stress.

    He said that the training course’s tutors would convince the trainees that they were in control of everything in their own life, leading them to blame themselves when something bad happened to them.

    According to Chen, the course contained several sharing sessions each day because it made participants feel that they were in a group, and they would be outliers if they had different ideas than the others. Therefore, many people would conceal their true feelings and conform to the group. (Zhang Yang)