Marma Chikitsa older than yoga, says expert

Tribune News Service

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Haridwar, April 22

Marma Chikitsa, healing touch therapy, is an ayurveda-based science which is majorly dependent on 107 sensitive points on the human body for curing various ailments. It was practised in ancient times even before yoga and other forms of healing appeared globally, said renowned Marma Chikitsa expert, Dr Sunil Joshi at a training programme at Maha Mrityunjay Mission, Kankhal, yesterday.

Dr Sunil Joshi said, “The Marma art of treatment is based on 107 sensitive points on the body. These points are connected with the brain and are pressed to stimulate senses. Besides curing various ailments, it is quite effective as a preventive measure too, making a person live a healthy life by strengthening his immune system”.

“Everything required for treatment in this therapy is in a human body. Patients administer the touch themselves under the direction of a doctor. It is not only easy but also not at all a costly affair. In some cases, patients are given ayurvedic medicines as a supplement,” he said.

Dr Joshi, who has written numerous books on Marma science and yoga, said Maharishi Sushuruta had penned the therapy which has been curing ailments without any side effects. “While western world is looking to India for availing benefit from yoga and Marma, ironically we are quite eager to adopt costly allopathic medicines the negative impacts of which are well known,” he added.

Uttarakhand Sanskrit University Vice-Chancellor, Prof Mahavir Aggarwal, said since ancient time seers practised Marma Chiktisa. Ayurvedic students should come forward to propagate this legacy.