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Acupressure: Giving the Right Touch
By PRABEER SIKDAR
DEHRADUN, 15 September 2008:
Namita Pathak of Sewak Ashram Road suffered from a rare collagen muscle disorder for six years. While allopathic medicines failed, acupressure had worked in her case.
Namita is not alone as former President KR Narayanan, ex-CM of Karnataka SM Krishna and Biocon India’s Kiran Mazumdar Shaw were also said to have taken recourse to this complementary therapy.
According to 64-year-old Kamal Sehgal, an acupressure and naturopathy practitioner based at EC Road, people in the metros are increasingly taking help from complementary therapies like Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Naturopathy and acupressure techniques to cure themselves of various diseases.
Terms like rolling pins and foot roller may be Latin and Greek for many, but many youngsters working in call centres in Bangalore and Hyderabad are using them to cure backache, headache, neck pains, ears and even eye-stress.
“It’s not all as acupressure has also been found to be effective in the treatment of paralysis, liver, thyroid, depression, BP, prostate cancer, physical deformity, gall bladder problems,” she says.
Beginning in 1994, Sehgal, who retired from Post and Telegraph service, claims to have treated more than 1000 patients till date. A collection of ‘thank you’ mails received by her is testimony to its effectiveness.
Though acupressure involves applying physical pressure to acupuncture points by the hand, elbow, or with acupressure tools, she also combines naturopathy to cure diseases.
“ In certain cases, I also recommend patients to use neem based products for faster recovery,” she adds.
For Sehgal, who now offers her services free of cost, her knowledge in acupressure came handy after her husband suffered paralytic attack during a conference in Hyderabad.
Her husband, who is in fine shape now, works as a consultant with NTPC.
“Earlier, when he was posted as Senior Manager of Water and Power Consultany Service on a World Bank funded project with Zimbabwe Electricty Supply Authority in 1994, I began studying about acupressure techniques,” she claims.
“Among my high profile clients during my four year stay in Harare (Zimbabwe) were Dr Chidzero, the then finance minister of Zimbabwe, Peter Paffit, son of a Greek minister, Mayor of Harare,” she said.
In the city, her clients mostly include nuns from catholic schools like St Lawrence, Convent of Jesus and Mary, St Josephs etc.
To diseeminate information about the benefits of acupressure, Sehgal has also conducted workshops for school children. The latest awareness cum training workshop she conducted was at St Lawrence, she said.
Though acupressure originated in China, and is not treated on par with AYUSH in India, she says that it too offers the same advantages that the former offer: cost effectiveness with no side-efects.
By PRABEER SIKDAR
DEHRADUN, 15 September 2008:
Namita Pathak of Sewak Ashram Road suffered from a rare collagen muscle disorder for six years. While allopathic medicines failed, acupressure had worked in her case.
Namita is not alone as former President KR Narayanan, ex-CM of Karnataka SM Krishna and Biocon India’s Kiran Mazumdar Shaw were also said to have taken recourse to this complementary therapy.
According to 64-year-old Kamal Sehgal, an acupressure and naturopathy practitioner based at EC Road, people in the metros are increasingly taking help from complementary therapies like Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Naturopathy and acupressure techniques to cure themselves of various diseases.
Terms like rolling pins and foot roller may be Latin and Greek for many, but many youngsters working in call centres in Bangalore and Hyderabad are using them to cure backache, headache, neck pains, ears and even eye-stress.
“It’s not all as acupressure has also been found to be effective in the treatment of paralysis, liver, thyroid, depression, BP, prostate cancer, physical deformity, gall bladder problems,” she says.
Beginning in 1994, Sehgal, who retired from Post and Telegraph service, claims to have treated more than 1000 patients till date. A collection of ‘thank you’ mails received by her is testimony to its effectiveness.
Though acupressure involves applying physical pressure to acupuncture points by the hand, elbow, or with acupressure tools, she also combines naturopathy to cure diseases.
“ In certain cases, I also recommend patients to use neem based products for faster recovery,” she adds.
For Sehgal, who now offers her services free of cost, her knowledge in acupressure came handy after her husband suffered paralytic attack during a conference in Hyderabad.
Her husband, who is in fine shape now, works as a consultant with NTPC.
“Earlier, when he was posted as Senior Manager of Water and Power Consultany Service on a World Bank funded project with Zimbabwe Electricty Supply Authority in 1994, I began studying about acupressure techniques,” she claims.
“Among my high profile clients during my four year stay in Harare (Zimbabwe) were Dr Chidzero, the then finance minister of Zimbabwe, Peter Paffit, son of a Greek minister, Mayor of Harare,” she said.
In the city, her clients mostly include nuns from catholic schools like St Lawrence, Convent of Jesus and Mary, St Josephs etc.
To diseeminate information about the benefits of acupressure, Sehgal has also conducted workshops for school children. The latest awareness cum training workshop she conducted was at St Lawrence, she said.
Though acupressure originated in China, and is not treated on par with AYUSH in India, she says that it too offers the same advantages that the former offer: cost effectiveness with no side-efects.
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