Reflexology cures a wide variety of illnesses

Reflexology cures a wide variety of illnesses

JAKARTA (JP): Edo grimaced as Sahibi Mudasir massaged his left
foot. Edo shook his head, closed his eyes and then opened his
mouth. Nothing came out.

Mudasir was massaging the young man's foot to cure him of
myopia. No ordinary masseur. He is a reflexologist.

"In the beginning you will feel a lot of pain, but after you
come here several times, you get used to it," Mudasir assured,
digging his fingers into his patient's left foot.

"This is the center of the nerve that affects your right eye,"
he explained as Edo yelped.

"The one that affects the left eye is on the right foot."

According to Mudasir, the pressure will activate nerves and
improve the patient's vision.

"This will reactivate the organs which are not active," he
said.

Several books have been published about the popular massage
therapy. In Body Reflexology, Healing at Your Fingertips, Milfred
Carter and Tammy Weber explain that the body is like an
electrical system with many "on" and "off" switches.

They say there are main circuits to every organ, gland and
nerve, with circuit breakers in the hands, feet and other body
parts.

The pressure sends a healing force to all parts of the body by
opening up closed electrical lines that have shut off the
universal life force.

The treatment works on many of Mudasir's patients, like Ahmad,
an office worker, who said the massage cured his
shortsightedness. But not all patients are satisfied.

Sari, a teenager, complained that there was no improvement in
her sight even though she had been massaged several times. But
she admitted that unlike Ahmad, she did not see Mudasir
regularly.

"You have to be persistent," Mudasir insisted.

Patients are required to visit once a week.

Mudasir said he had cured people of cancer, cataracts, polio,
digestion problems and had even healed paralyzed children.

"But based on my experience, I can't cure patients with
serious liver problems who need blood washing," he said, without
explaining why.

His patients include a high-ranking army officer, some doctors
and several foreigners.

One of the doctors, a diabetic, came to Mudasir because he did
not want to take synthetic drugs.

"The doctor said that the chemicals were poison," Mudasir
said.

The 56-year-old reflexologist only gives patients suffering
from serious diseases like cancer or diabetes traditional
medicine. He concocts some of the medicine himself.

Mudasir learned the art of reflexology in 1985 from his now
retired elder brother Amir Mudasir.

Mudasir used to be a physics teacher at a junior high school
until the schoolwarden came to him asking for money to help cure
his mother's swollen and red feet.

"I didn't have any money and I couldn't take her to my brother
because she was really ill," he said. "I thought it would be good
if I could massage her."

So Mudasir took a crash course in massage from his brother
that afternoon and practiced on the schoolwarden's mother. He
didn't even know the name of the disease, but she recovered the
day after his massage.

The news spread throughout the school and he then became the
school's "doctor".

Two years later, after curing a student of polio, Mudasir
became determined to be a professional reflexologist. He retired
in 1992 and began practicing reflexology full-time.

Before leaving his school he taught the craft to a few
colleagues. Although three teachers were interested in
reflexology, only one was successful, he said.

One of his relatives, a doctor, also tried to learn
reflexology, but failed.

"Special talent is required," he vouched, adding that he would
share his skill with anyone who really wants to learn about the
therapy.

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