Finance professional turned healer uses acupressure and TCM to treat world leaders and prisoners
- Ketan Shah turned to acupressure in 1991 when complications set in after he had an appendectomy
- It worked so well that he trained to become an acupressurist, and Shah has since treated 350,000 patients including world leaders and prisoners
It’s another busy day at acupressurist Ketan Shah’s house in Bangalore, India, as a long line of patients – many from outside the city – wait for a consultation.
He advised her to activate pressure points twice a day, and to take 10 raw rice grains with plain water first thing in the morning – a tip many other patients with acidity problems swear by, too.
When Shah, a 59-year-old finance professional from Mumbai, was diagnosed with appendicitis in 1991, he had surgery in Bangalore. It should have been a routine procedure. Instead, he developed an infection, and had to undergo two more operations, after which he developed an abnormal lump. The doctor believed he would need more operations. That’s when Shah decided to look at alternatives that would be easier on him and on his wallet.
Someone suggested acupressure with Dr H Bhojraj, a space engineer who had taught himself this alternative healing therapy, in Bangalore. Through him, he found some relief in just a week, after his wife, Yogini Shah, who had learned to activate the pressure points as instructed by Bhojraj, administered the recommended treatment. When they went back for a review at the hospital after a month, Shah says, the lump had disappeared.
