- PATNA (IANS) - Disbelief
is writ large on the face of Rameshwar Singh as he expectantly waits outside
a room where his wife is being treated for stones in her kidneys.
He briefly thinks about what all the doctors he had consulted had told
him: surgery was the only way out to rid his wife of her painful ailment.
Incredulity returns to his face as he looks at the room again.
Inside, a middle-aged woman sits deep in prayer beside Singh's wife who
is lying on the floor. A few minutes later she places one end of a metal
pipe on the abdomen of the patient and closes her eyes again. She then
begins to suck hard on the other end of the pipe.
After a few more minutes, she spits out something from her mouth that lands
with a clang in a bowl. Believe it or not, the woman has literally sucked
the stones out from the patient's kidney without getting anywhere near
the organ!
But this is not the first time Lama Dolma, 45, has performed this miraculous
feat that defies conventional scientific wisdom.
She rid nearly a dozen people of stones in their kidneys and gall bladder
during the two-days she was in the city at the invitation of the Institute
of Healing and Alternative Therapy this month.
"She has successfully removed stones in about a dozen chronic patients
in Patna," said Dr B.P. Sahi, the institute's founder and spiritual
healer.
She performed her first "surgery" in the city last year on Sahi.
"Last year she extricated stone pebbles from my gall bladder on the
institute premises," he said.
A Tibetan Buddhist, Dolma practices what is called "psychic surgery"
and "psychic healing," a traditional system of spiritual healing
rooted in Tibetan Buddhism, said Sahi.
Every day Dolma shuts herself up in a room for an hour to invoke gods and
goddesses for spiritual energy needed to perform the feat.
Speaking through her associate, as she neither understands Hindi nor much
of English, Dolma said she worships Hindu god Bhairo and goddess Kali,
besides Buddha before performing psychic surgery.
She said she performed these surgeries initially only in the Ladakh region
of Jammu and Kashmir and in Himachal Pradesh, but now travels around the
country to treat people. She said she this was her second visit to Patna.
An excited Rameshwar Singh told IANS: "She removed stones without
any pain from my wife's kidney. It's incredible to see such a thing being
done in the age of computers and Internet."
Describing Dolma's "surgical" process, Sahi said she blows psychic
energy into the body and dissolves the stones in the gall bladder and kidneys
into energy, which comes out through the pipe and gets converted into stones
again.
"Small stones in all the patients totally disappeared after the treatment,
as a number of patients who got ultrasound done later confirmed it,"
said Sahi.
Surendra Singh, who was treated by Dolma, vouched for her healing powers.
"The ultrasound (after the surgery) showed no trace of stones in my
kidneys," he said. The earlier ultrasound had showed stones measuring
4 mm to 8 mm, he added.
A. Mishra, another beneficiary of this unique treatment, said his son,
a doctor, examined him thoroughly after the "surgery" and found
that the stones in his kidneys had disappeared altogether.
Mishra told IANS he was feeling better after Dolma's treatment.
Lallan Kumar, a doctor at the Patna Medical College Hospital, told IANS
that modern medicine may pooh-pooh Dolma's healing art but the fact was
that she had successfully treated many patients in the city.
"In India psychic healing is not so popular as people have overwhelming
faith in modern medicine. But in the U.S. more than 1,000 alternative therapy
clinics are functioning," said Sahi.
He said India had its own well-defined system of spiritual healing called
"Nyasa", which was as old as Ayurveda, the traditional system
of Indian medicine.
Dolma is also a trained practitioner of Tibetan medicine - an elaborate
system of traditional healing - and is affiliated to the Tibetan Medical
Centre at Dharamshala in the Himachal Pradesh, the seat of the Dalai Lama's
government-in-exile.
The centre is the only surviving repository of all knowledge about Tibetan
medicine, said Sahi.
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