Healing sports injuries through 'alternative medicine'

by Richard Dwight

Comfortably seated with characteristic ease on a chair in his room at the Ceylon Continental Hotel, the fair complexioned, elderly looking, Dr. Rasvinder Jit Singh, attired smartly in white and sporting an equally speckless white turban and a flowing beard - was to some of us who met him, the very picture of health, that bespoke of a man who was at peace with himself and the world around.

This certainly did bear eloquent testimony of Dr. Rasvinder's experience in the efficacy of alternative medicines, where through the acknowledgement of God the creator, the seeker of a healthy mind within a healthy body, is able to achieve it to a large extent, through natural therapies without recourse to drugs or any form of medicine.

Dr. Rasvinder who is deeply committed to treating patients thus, humbly acknowledges that this special art of his, is a blessing from God, not to be kept for himself to remain and die, but to be shared around the world in the service of humanity - where the main focus of his life, is to cure all forms of diseases in people, without medicine. Such a man as this, who is highly enthusiastic of establishing a clinic of this nature in Sri Lanka, for the benefit of many and sportsmen too - does merit a brief narrative here.

Dr. Rasvinder Jit Singh MD (AM) MINPA (AR), who hails from Punjab, is a well known personality in the ambit of alternative medicines and is considered amongst the top ten in Tndia, in the field of alternative medicines a councillor of the Indian Board of Alternative medicines, member of the Indian Nature Cure Practitioner's Association, and Chairman of both the International Hospital of Natural Therapies, India and of Ropar Nature Cure, India.

In addition Dr. Rasvinder has the distinction of being the chief consultant of the Acumagnetic Treatment Centre in Oman, of being visiting consultant to Dubai, Bahrain, Jordan and Cairo. In recognition and appreciation of the services rendered by him in the alleviation of pain and suffering of many, these past 22 years, he was the recipient of two awards the 'Gold medal' and 'Shiromni' for alternative medicines.

It's against this background, expertise and knowledge that Dr. Rasvinder wishes to bring to bear in setting up shortly an 'alternative medicines' clinic in Sri Lanka just the way he did one in Oman.

In 'alternative medicine,' it was learnt that there were various ways and systems for treating different ailments from A-Z (without medicine) and what's most significant is that, the diagnosis is done by the mere feeling of the patients' hands and not through X rays, scans and yet other tests.

Dr. Rasvinder dwelt mainly on two curative systems that of acupressure and magnet therapy and, of course the combination of both referred to as acumagnetic system. The acupressure process has to do with the pressing of the identified pressure points on the hands, feet and the body to effect cure, and the system had its origin 6,000 years ago in India.

He revealed that there are 72,000 nerve ending points that could be pressed upon in the body and of this up to now, only 900 points have been discovered. And of this 900 points, Dr. Rasvinder has made a switch board of 34 points and, on learning of these 34 points, even a child of 10 years, could administer treatment to patients with chronic ailments 'acupressure' is considered the best first aid in the world and has proved effective to cure nervous system diseases.

The magnet therapy was the outcome of deep research done in Germany, Russia, Greece and India. It evolved from the basis that if the magnetic field of sun, moon and earth effect human beings, it could be presumed, that the human body itself has a magnetic field of its own.

He went onto explain that the magnet is usually associated with iron and that human blood in addition to all the nutrients has a certain amount of iron - and so reasoned that in addition to the magnetism of earth, sun and moon, the magnet prepared from iron are used in the treatment of human illness.

Magnet therapy is found to be the best to balance the blood circulation system, and so it has been combined with acupressure to give rise to the acumagnetic therapy that has proved beneficial to patients. Dr. Rasvinder hopes to introduce the acumagnetic therapy here for the first time no sooner he opens the alternative medicines' clinic. It will have the potential to cure chronic diseases, with a speciality in spine, epilepsy, migraine, asthma, hypertension - assist in the reduction of weight and fat without dieting and exercise.

All this and more will help sportsmen to overcome stress and strain, recover from their injuries e.g.; the pulling of a muscle on the ground could be put right in one minute, by the body balancing technique - sportsmen could also gain resistance power to perform better.

Dr. Rasvinder has also introduced to the world for the first time, which would be operative here as well - the new technique, that is the pyra magnetic sleeping system which is a mattress made up of 120 bipolar magnets and 9,720 pyramids, so that anybody sleeping on this system will get resistance power which could be of importance to sportsman, those suffering from old age and yet other cute reverses.

There are about 23 instruments that could be made use of by patients for treatment at home. More information of this art of healing could be had from a seminar and conference that will precede the opening of the clinic.

Dr. Rasvinder Jit Singh does in no way act contradictory to modern medicine, he is complementary of its and, though not prescribing medicine in any form does not stop the medication of the patients which they receive from their physicians.