How operations are done without tools. The magic of the hands of healers. Surgery with bare hands: The whole truth about Filipino healers

Leonid KUZNETSOV
OPERATION WITHOUT A KNIFE?
“We saw how the hands entered the patient’s body and blood appeared. The healer’s four fingers pierced the man’s stomach. Then with two or three fingers he carefully pierced the patient’s skull, each time taking out bloody pieces of tissue and blood clots. Again and again we tried to see as a scalpel flashed in the light or an expression of pain appeared on the face of the person being operated on. But there was no scalpel; there was no change in face. The patient did not experience anything that would cause tension, he himself calmly watched the doctor’s work. Three minutes later he got up from the bed. When He passed by us, we touched his forehead, hoping to find a trace of a wound. The skin was clean.
Putting these impressions on paper, I come to the conclusion: I learned to treat people with other methods indicated by science. But, having become acquainted with a new type of “healing”, I asked myself: what does ten, twenty or even thirty years of study mean to master the latest medical equipment, compared to this? Nothing".
This is the story of a twenty-five-year-old doctor from West Germany, published in the pages of one of the largest Philippine newspapers, The Times Journal, on September 17, 1980.
Arriving in the Philippines, I naturally tried to learn as much as possible about the country, I was interested in life, customs, traditions, etc. An article by a graduate of a modern medical school, Rolf Kuhl, about Philippine healers, which, by the way, he wrote together with a biology student faculty and which caught my eye did not make much of an impression on me then. It was a story about a miracle. Well, the East is rich in miracles, no less exciting than piercing a person’s skull with your fingers. But I cut out Kuhl’s report from the newspaper and put it in a folder that I called “Traditions, customs, miracles and curiosities.”
I must say that this folder filled up faster than all the others. Well, for example, in such sections as “medical care”, “situation of workers”, “who’s who in South-East Asia"and others. What is there in this folder! Here, for example, is an almost full-page report about how the heart of the statue of the Virgin Mary, located in one of the churches in the city of Baguio, began to bleed. The report says how the statue suddenly opened wounds, how the blood flowed, how even the voice of the maiden herself was heard, and wrote this for serious and widespread readable newspaper Mr. Juvinal K. Guerero, Member supreme court Philippines, former governor of the province of La Union (he held this post for eleven years, twice recognized as the best governor of the country). An authoritative person. I visited a church where a miracle happened. I saw a statue of the Virgin Mary and dried drops of blood on it. True, the doctors in Baguio said: when analyzing the blood that appeared so unexpectedly, it turned out that there were no blood cells in it, and they could not add anything specific. However, the popularity of the church in Baguio has grown enormously. Today, perhaps, no other church gathers as many believers as this one.
Along with relatively modern “miracles”, the Philippines also has its own, ancient ones, born long before the day when Magellan landed on its shores. Catholic cross and with the Virgin Mary. For example, a Filipino peasant should not start harvesting rice during the full moon, otherwise he will lose the entire harvest, and his wife should not sweep the yard at nightfall - she may thereby disturb the spirits living underground. This is very dangerous, since the spirits are very touchy and, in retaliation, they will, of course, deprive either the woman or her husband of sight. But if the careless housewife comes to her senses in time and asks for forgiveness, then everything will work out.
In the mountains of central Luzon, I was lucky enough to see many strange things. For example, fortune telling by the entrails of an animal, as a result of which we learned that our journey to Sagada (which is high in the mountains along a dangerous road) would be successful. And indeed, an hour and a half after we left the city of Bontoc, where the fortune telling took place, we found ourselves in a small village and were allowed to attend an interesting ceremony. It began with slaughtering a pig, putting grass and rice on it and starting prayers. More precisely, it was mainly the old woman who prayed. Apparently, she made her request (to heal the daughter of one of the village residents) to the trees, mountains, and clouds running across the sky.
In fact, explained the teacher at the University of the Philippines who accompanied me, the prayer is addressed mainly to “anita.” Anitu is a spirit that lives on earth, but he is either invisible or hides well. Anita is omnipotent. He can help a person, but he can also bring him a lot of trouble. He was probably offended by the peasant for something, which is why his daughter got sick.
We must pay tribute to the main person in this ceremony. Taking advantage of the opportunity that sacrifices had already been made to Anita, that is, everything had been paid for, that people had gathered, the old woman did not stop after making a request to help the sick girl. She informed Anita about the concerns of her fellow villagers, who were kind and hardworking, hinting that the Almighty would enter into their situation. “Parpakem nan likhat mi,” she began, that is, take all troubles, mainly rats, away from our fields, help us reap the harvest...
I asked those participating in the ceremony if anita would help. No one had any doubts. Even at the veterinarian who happened to be in the village at that time.
- What about beliefs in general? - I turned to the husband of the head of the ceremony. They say that you Bontocs don’t lock your houses, don’t put locks on your barns, and the harvest in the field is protected only by a branch cut from a tree, which they will speak before sticking it into a pile of grain?
“That’s how it is,” answered the old man. “But there are often cases when people steal rice and enter a home without asking or permission. And everything comes from books, from reading and writing. Young people believe that they are smarter than old people and know more than us. They learned to read, write and play cards. So they violate our customs! It’s good that the girl’s parents adhere to the old rules and did not take the patient to the doctor. What is a doctor? This is not Anita. And the doctor charges a lot...
In Sagada, I became convinced that the Igorots really bury or at least Until recently, they buried their most respected relatives in hanging coffins. A small niche is cut out of the rock, then wooden stakes are driven in - they, together with the ledge, hold the coffin. Here, for example, the apei ritual is observed, carried out in order to “warm the field”, which was decided to be sowed with rice. A fire is made, water is boiled on it and poured onto the ground, then a chicken is sacrificed to the fire, always black or at least dark; Ceremony participants warm themselves up with rice vodka, etc.
Pre-Christian beliefs are alive not only in mountainous Luzon; on the island of Panay, pregnant women are not advised to look at the sunset, otherwise the child will be born with many birthmarks. On the island of Sulu, childless women are encouraged to wear a monkey skin belt in order to become pregnant. On the island of Mindanao in all difficult, and even more so in doubtful cases Some peoples consult the moon. And finally, the belief in anting-anting is widespread throughout the Philippines. This is an amulet that protects against the evil eye and enemy bullets. It brings good luck to both the peasant who bets his last pennies on a rooster participating in cockfights, and the rich man who decides to try his luck in a Las Vegas gambling establishment. An anting-anting can be a medallion containing a piece of paper with a saying from the Bible, or an image of the Virgin Mary, or a boar's tooth, a coin, or a shell.
Local beliefs are enriched, or rather replenished, as a result of communication with neighbors. Everyone has something to brag about. In Singapore, I saw many official institutions that are engaged in ensuring the safety of housing from evil spirits, from evil people, from evil manifestations of the elements. In Malaysia, I had the opportunity to be present during the hunt for ikan akung, that is, for the “king fish”. When the birds sang their last songs before going to bed and the tropical sun faded away, Majid sat down at the oars, lit a torch and headed along the shore. Suddenly, in the light of the wavering flame, a small fish with a cross on its head appeared, sparkling with delicate gold scales. The light acts on her like a hypnotist. She freezes. Immediately the net transfers the captive to a round jar. This is great luck. Ikan Akung are usually hunted at night. It is caught for luck: a goldfish should bring great wealth. Therefore, it is valued very dearly and is affordable only by those who already have a lot of gold without it. Ikan Akung is acquired by tin and rubber “kings”, owners of enterprises that produce the most modern equipment on computers - after all, an additional ally in the fierce competition.
Majid told me many more interesting things. Well, for example, about a Chinese in their village who raises the dead and even makes them walk. This operation is needed when someone has died far from their home village, and relatives want him to rest next to the graves of their ancestors.
“We call these people “walkers,” Majid clarifies, “and when they bring the dead to the village, everyone hides in their houses, the windows are tightly curtained, because if a living person looks at a dead man returning to the grave, he will die immediately.” .
On the Philippine island of Sulu, a husband whose wife is pregnant has no right to dig a grave or make a coffin, because by doing so he will shorten the life of his unborn child.
All these beliefs, rituals, testimonies and stories of miracles passed down from generation to generation add up to a certain system of views, the center of which is supernatural forces that manifest themselves in different ways in different situations. However, with the collapse of the colonial system and the spread of knowledge thanks to the efforts of enlighteners, magic and everything connected with it is already losing its position. People learn that their beliefs are directed against them by foreigners.
At one time, Colonel Lansdale, the chief representative of the US CIA in the Philippines, while organizing the suppression of peasant uprisings, widely used faith in vampires. Specially trained agents killed a man, pierced his neck in two places and hung him upside down. At the same time, a rumor spread that communists had the ability to turn into vampires. And then the peasants find a bloodless corpse. Many left their homes in horror, thereby weakening the rebel forces. When Lansdale’s cunning became known, many Filipinos began to doubt whether the heavenly bearers of evil (and therefore good) supernatural forces really exist.
In Hong Kong I was amazed great amount palmists, astrologers, fortune tellers. But the most popular among the people now are members of the Hak Tao “Black Path” society. They are called "da siu yang", or "those who strike the little people." As a rule, the “applyers” are old women dressed in traditional black dresses. They stay in groups, each of which, as a journalist from the South China Morning Post told me, is “a miniature coven of witches.” Witches are popular because they actively interfere in human relationships.
“For example, a worker was offended by the owner,” they told me. - Of course, it’s dangerous to complain to the authorities, calling for a strike is even more dangerous, and any protest will result in arrest. The offended person goes to "da siu yang" and asks to place a curse on the owner, who in this case Thanks to his vile traits, he is transferred to the category of “little people”. The witch readily agrees. The instruments of her witchcraft are a cup of rice, a censer and a pair of slippers. So, let's get to it. First of all, the old woman writes the name of the offender on a piece of paper. Then the paper is set on fire and when the flame flares up, flip-flops are used. “Da siu yang” hits the flames with them, thus striking the nonentity, that is, the offender. At the same time, she scatters rice, thus feeding and strengthening the evil spirits who must punish the owner. For a curse on the offender, the offended person pays a dollar, maybe two. But, if a person asks to curse someone all day, then the cost of the execution naturally increases, sometimes up to ten or twenty dollars.
“So how,” I asked, “does it work?”
In response, the journalist shrugged his shoulders. But another journalist, Frena Bloomfield, a specialist in folk beliefs, also for a long time living in Hong Kong, I am absolutely sure that “little people”, as a rule, endure the blows of “da siu yang”.
In this situation, Filipino healers are becoming more and more popular, because their activities, their magic are presented as reality. Over the years, this idea began to assert itself more and more insistently. The fame of the healer ("healer" from the English word heal - to heal) spread throughout the whole world. Accompanied, by the way, by an incredible number of descriptions of impressions, comments, assumptions, conjectures, hypotheses, questions. Still would! Surgery without a knife! How can you not visit a healer? There are about fifty famous healers registered in the Philippines. On January 15, 1983, the creation of a circle of Filipino healers was announced. Not everyone, however, entered into it. Some chose to remain outside of society.
One day (it was Saturday) I took a clipping of an article by a German doctor, to which dozens of others were added, re-read them and went to Alex Orbito, one of the leading healers in the Philippines. Having driven about twelve kilometers along Epifanio de Los Santos Street (it resembles our Garden Ring and performs almost the same functions, only somewhat narrower and with big amount cars, so every kilometer takes ten to twelve minutes), we turned left and breathed a sigh of relief - a quiet area, with rare passers-by. At number 9 Maryland Street there is an ordinary one-story house. In front of him, behind a thick fence, is a tiny garden with a bench and a porch. There is a table with a book where you need to write down your last name. I was already fifty-seventh on this list, although there was an hour and a half left before the start of the appointment and, naturally, the operations, that is, 10.30. Fifty-six people who had arrived earlier sat down right there on the porch, others went into a narrow room that resembled a tiny cinema hall with chairs (about forty, no more) lined up in two rows. Instead of a screen there is a glass partition. Behind it is a room measuring four meters by eight with a table. On it is a Bible, two 1.5-liter bottles of water and a plate with cotton swabs.
Behind the table is a portrait of Christ, in front of the table is a wheelchair. This is the operating room. The door opens out onto the courtyard, where I saw ducks, chickens, a dog in a large cage (“very angry, we only let it out at night,” they explained to me), a small car was being unloaded, and something was being cooked or heated on a kerosene stove. . If you go to the right from the front porch, you find yourself in a large room. This is the living room. On the walls are newspaper clippings of articles on medical topics, posters. In general, the living room somehow reminded me of an antique shop after a sale - everything valuable was sold out, all the works of the masters, leaving only things of no artistic or historical interest: figures of horses, Japanese lanterns, vases, a dark table, a wicker sofa. Everything is of different color, style, age, and it all seems gloomy, I think this is also because it weakly penetrates here sunlight.
Behind a narrow door is a small office. While we were waiting in the living room, a girl approached us with a stack of books called “Faith Healing and Psychosurgery.” The book came out recently. You can buy it. Here, in the healer’s house, it cost a little more than in the city store.
- Why?
- As you know, real healers do not take money for treatment. A real healer should not abuse either wine or amorous hobbies. You can, of course, thank him with a gift. And if in money, then they should be taken to the clinic next door. They will be received there. When a healer needs money to buy cotton wool or repair, for example, a chair, he will go to the same clinic and take from the “account” there as much as he needs. We don't have enough funds. Book sales go some way to making up for this shortage.”
(To be fair, it should be said that other healers are not so scrupulous and take money, and the size of the amount does not bother them; on the contrary, the more, the better.)
But then Alex Orbito entered the room. Average height, wearing a white shirt and dark trousers. Someone once told me that shoes with slightly higher heels indicate that their owner suffers from an inferiority complex. But the owner of the house, Alex Orbito, whom I saw, did not suffer from the above-mentioned complex. The strong-willed face revealed a strong, decisive character.
Subsequently, when we began to meet frequently with A. Orbito, I became convinced that he was an excellent speaker, although he had not studied oratory, nor had he studied medicine. A reputable Hollywood company wanted to invite Alex to play the role of a stern and wise judge who knows no emotions. But Alex Orbito could also be invited to play the role of a good-natured, simple guy, because his smile is charming. This smile for a moment made me forget that in front of me was a man whose name had already been included in many books and articles.
“Yes, yes,” said Alex Orbito, seeing me, “you will stand nearby, you can take pictures, but now excuse me, I’ll leave you for five minutes, an Australian correspondent is waiting for me, he’s come for an interview.”
Alex Orbito treats the press with respect, but rarely does he tell a journalist about himself. He is the son of a driver, and one day in a dream he saw the face of an unfamiliar woman. And in the morning the neighbor brought her to him and said: “Help...” - “With what?” - the young man was surprised. At that moment, some kind of insight came over him, and he removed something from the patient’s stomach, which, in all likelihood, was the cause of the illness, because the woman felt better. This was the first operation, after which hundreds of others followed.
The door soon opened, and Alex Orbito, turning to his assistant, who was a young Frenchwoman, a graduate of the Sorbonne, said: “Let’s begin.” Without changing into scrubs or putting on any of the surgeon's "armor", Alex Orbito sat down at the operating table and, with his head in his hands, closed his eyes. Both the assistants and the patients sang a prayer. Apparently, the cloud revealed the sun, it looked through the window, and the healer’s varnished nails flashed brightly.
But now the prayer is over. Alex Orbito stood up. The first to lie down on the trestle bed was a Filipino woman of about thirty. Orbito lowered her jeans, his hands went into her stomach, and a second later something similar to cellophane film appeared with droplets of blood. She broke off. Orbito "sank" his hand again and pulled out a fragment. The woman, groaning slightly, stood up and went out into the courtyard. I followed her.
-What bothered you? - I asked the woman.
- My neighbor is an evil woman, and what’s more, she has an evil eye. She threw something into my food. Now I feel good.
I returned to the operating table. An Australian, a corpulent man of about sixty, was already lying on it. Again Alex Orbito's hands went into his stomach, this time he pulled out a blood clot.
- What did you complain about? - I asked the Australian when he got up from the table.
“I had a stomach ache,” the patient answered quietly.
Then the operating table or operating chair (Alex Orbito simultaneously removed a cyst, opened an ear, and took something out of it from patients who sat on the chair) began to be occupied one by one by members of the West German tourist group.
- How did you feel at the time of the operation? - I asked a question to a woman who complained about her pancreas.
- A pleasant tickling and nothing more, but now I feel a slight burning sensation.
“Complicated operations,” commented my friend Jaimse Likauko, the author of four famous books about healers. - But they were also more difficult. He opened the back of the head of one American who suffered from headaches (with his bare hands, of course), removed blood clots and closed them again.
“Next...” Alex Orbito said.
Operations take a maximum of two minutes. One of the healers operated on two thousand patients in eleven months.
An incredible number of books and articles have been published about Filipino healers. Hypotheses and theories have emerged (mostly their authors believe that operations without a knife are possible), one of which suggests that an energy unknown to us is concentrated at the fingertips of healers, which does not tear the tissue and, by pushing the molecules apart, allows the fingers to penetrate the body. It is suggested that the healer is able to create a certain magnetic field, and if it coincides with the magnetic field of Luzon (the authors of the theory claim that it exists, that it is special, why, they say, only Filipinos can perform operations and only on the island of Luzon, or better yet only in the province of Pangasinan, where all the famous healers came from), then you can perform operations. The magnetic field or unknown energy ensures the sterility of the space above the resulting wound, which is open only for a moment. Others believe that no autopsy is taking place. The healer, being the carrier of astral energy, directs it into the patient’s body, it is faster than X-rays or radio waves, reaches the sore spot, dematerializes it, takes it out of the body, after which it materializes again and in its original form is thrown into a vessel for the extracted disease. This theory belongs to Dr. Hans Naecheli, President of the Swiss Society for Physical Research.
Yes, healers are credited with supernatural powers: the ability to create unknown energy, the ability to direct it exactly to the place that needs treatment. It is believed that this is where their popularity comes from. However, I have come to the firm conviction that the popularity of healers rests and flourishes mainly on other grounds. Among the clippings about miraculous healings, I have an article about dental healers. They, however, do not treat teeth, but only remove them. But they pull out any tooth. Moreover, either with bare hands, or with the help of a stick, much less often with tongs. And most importantly - completely painless, almost without any unpleasant consequences. At the University of the Philippines, a dissertation was even defended on this topic. Its author is Constanza Fernandez Clemente. A psychologist by training, she watched for several months as healers removed teeth with their bare hands. One day she herself had a need, a necessity, and she went to a certified dentist - a tooth had to be removed. But since she was about to give birth, the doctor, fearing possible consequences, did not dare to take up the tongs. He advised to contact a healer. And although, as Clemente shares his impressions, the crown of the tooth did not come out completely, Rodolfo Laganzod Kaminong in the blink of an eye, or rather in three seconds, pulled it out, using, however, forceps. Clemente did not feel any pain during or after the operation.
Kaminong explained the ability to relieve people from pain as follows: “I owe my gift to God. Once, when I was still living in the city of Olongapo, a rock dove flew to me and told me that I could pull out teeth.”
To another dentist, Khun Meldia, insight came in a different form. “I was sixteen years old,” the Times Journal newspaper reports. “During a holiday, when I drank too much wine, I heard a man complaining about a tooth. I asked him to open his mouth, took the tooth. I didn’t even know that he pulled it out, and realized it only when the blood began to flow." For ten years now, the newspaper adds, Meldia has been removing her teeth. Using the same method, that is, with his bare hands, only now he places a handkerchief on the sore tooth to prevent his fingers from slipping.
In Zamboanga City, on the island of Mindanao, I stayed at the Lantaka Hotel. I met with local newspapermen, publishers, and politicians in the city, and photographed the city and its surroundings. And suddenly I got a toothache. Got sick on Saturday. During the night, my cheek became so swollen that it was scary to look at. There was no hope left that I would have time to fly to Manila, so I went to the hotel administrator and asked him to show me the doctor’s address. The girl administrator, after listening to me, said that on Sunday the famous dentist, a graduate of the capital’s university, does not accept appointments. But a ten-minute walk from the hotel, a wonderful craftsman is a doctor. “Go to him,” the administrator smiled, “you won’t regret it, and he charges inexpensively.”
Soon a taxi - a "traisakl" (motorcycle with a sidecar) stopped near a one-story house. When someone knocked on the gate, a woman appeared and invited him in. The room in which I was asked to wait for the doctor was ordinary. From time to time, chickens came in from the yard (the door did not close, because a draft was the only salvation in the heat, and the heat was forty degrees), they were driven out by a boy of about seven. The chickens ran away, then appeared again. I watched the boy for about seven minutes when the owner himself finally appeared. After greetings and a short introduction (the doctor saw that I was ill), I sat down in a chair that was different from the others large size. No injections, no rubbing. The healer took the forceps and... My operation was perhaps even faster than Constanza Clemente's, at least not three seconds. But unlike her, I felt acute pain. Then for another three hours after the operation I felt pain. However, I was grateful for timely assistance. What would happen to me if it weren’t for the healer?
This is exactly the question I am asking now to explain (in part, of course) the popularity of traditional healers. The health challenges in the Philippines are far from over. After I began to forget about the pulled out tooth, I had a conversation with the mayor of the city. And I learned that for the two and a half million people in Western Mindanao, which includes Zamboanga, there are only 240 doctors. Of this small number, only forty specialists work in rural areas. Who should the patient contact? He looks at the healer as a savior, he is his last hope. And he should be paid incomparably less than a certified doctor. If in Manila I had to pay 150 pesos just to prepare a tooth for a filling, then in Zamboanga I paid only 25 pesos for the entire operation. And that’s because I’m a foreigner. A local patient would have paid five times less or thanked him for his help with half a dozen eggs.

A person in his right mind will never stop taking care of his health. He will never stop looking for new ways to improve his health. Today when trusting relationship“doctor - patient” in traditional medicine is undermined; in case of health problems, people turn to such a phenomenon as alternative medicine. Among all the existing treatment methods, surgery using the method of Philippine healers is perhaps one of the most amazing.

They are considered great healers, sorcerers, and charlatans. Eyewitnesses from all over the world claim that the hands of healers really magically penetrate the human body and treat ailments that traditional medicine has turned away from. So who are they - healers, Filipino healers?

Who is this?

It is traditionally accepted to call those who perform operations of varying complexity only with their hands, that is, without any special tools. In their practice, Filipino healers also do not use anesthetics. These are the most famous differences between healing and other medical teachings, but they are not the only ones.

Philippine medicine is associated with the concept of psychosurgery, because healers act not only in the physical, but also in the mental, influencing the consciousness of their patients.

Many titles

The name "healer" is derived from the English word Heal. What does "heal" mean? Let us note that these amazing people are called not only healers. In the Western world they were given the titles of “psychic surgeons”, “mental surgeons”, “surgeons” fourth dimension" With such verbal turns, people emphasize the extraordinary nature of the healer’s treatment method.

First mentions

Started to spread throughout to the globe information about amazing Filipino healers thanks to seafarers. Written sources from the 16th century contain testimonies from sailors about healing miracles seen on distant islands.

In the 40s of the 20th century, it was possible to document the process of a healer working with a person. Since then, Filipino healers have become known everywhere. Today it is much easier to see how healers work, photos of which are easy to find in open sources.

Famous healers

It is believed that there are only about 50 people in the Philippines with deep knowledge of Philippine psychic surgery. But healers in the Philippines are also included in special official lists. Thus, there are many more of them officially registered (several thousand). Therefore, it is worth drawing conclusions about the quality of treatment of a particular healer. The parallel with our medicine can be traced again.

One of the famous modern healers is June Labo, whose clinic today accepts patients from all over the world.

Also in the homeland of the amazing trend of alternative medicine, the most famous names of healers are Alcazar Perlito, Nida Talon, Maria Bilosana, Alex Orbito, Virgilio D. Gutierrez, Rodolfo Suyat. Filipino healer is an honorary title that, among many others, can only be earned by a talented, true healer.

In Russia, the most famous healer was Virgilio Gutierrez, now a doctor in Gutierrez, he taught the art of surgical intervention by healers to selected students.

Filipino healers in Russia

Since the connections between continents and islands have become stronger, you can get an “appointment” with a healer not only in distant countries. Heelers also live in Russia. They carry out treatment with their own, unconventional methods, which brought them world fame and a lot of gossip.

It is customary to turn to alternative medicine when everything that traditional medicine can offer does not help. At the same time, patients do not always fully trust the methods they rely on in their treatment. last resort. So healers, whose reviews are contradictory, belong to this area of ​​​​alternative treatment.

Healers appeared in Russia about 20 years ago. Today there is even an Association of Filipino Healers. This organization is headed by Ruschel Blavo, a well-known researcher in the world scientific community about the phenomenon of extrasensory healing.

Ruschel Blavo dedicated several books and a documentary film to healers. In addition, the scientist conducts seminars on the unique capabilities of Filipino healers, demonstrating their art.

Other Filipino healers in Moscow and other Russian cities have held seminars more than once, introducing people to the mystery of knowledge of their extraordinary medicine.

Healer treatment techniques

In fact, in addition to surgical interventions, healers also use other healing techniques. Thus, Philippine medicine includes the use of various spells, treatment with herbs, stones, manual therapy. All these methods are traditional for Asian peoples, but the ones that are most famous are surgical operations.

The operations are carried out by healers only with their hands. They do not use any tools, such as scalpels or clamps. Thus, a doctor can remove anything from a person’s body foreign body, accumulated slag, stone formation. The doctor finds deviations in the condition of certain organs on his own and begins his work there. Diagnostics and other tests are not carried out, which is also surprising for those who are encountering the art of Filipino healers for the first time.

Psychic surgery - a miracle of healing

Strange as it may seem to us, healers profess the Catholic faith. Like most things historically, healers have a Bible on their table even during operations. If we consider the operations of healers as a kind of ritual, then in it Christianity is closely intertwined with local worldviews.

Moreover, Filipino healers perform their miracles of healing, inspired, so to speak, by prayers. Philippine Catholic Church officially recognizes the surgical operations of healers as one of the manifestations of the divine miracle of healing.

Patient preparation

Not only the operating process itself is important, but also the preparation of the patient for treatment. The healer begins to work with the patient long before the operation itself begins. The medicine of the peoples of the Philippines is focused primarily on working with the spiritual essence of man.

The healing process, in which both the sick person and the healer participate, consists not only in the physical improvement of a person’s condition, but also in the improvement of spirit and consciousness. Preparing the patient for surgery includes communication with the surgeon, meditation, and preliminary theoretical familiarization with the upcoming process.

Before the start of surgery, the patient still receives anesthesia, but not in the form that is familiar to us. The healer, using special movements, introduces the patient into a state of complete or partial (like partial anesthesia).

A person can feel the process of the operation while conscious. But pain and others discomfort at the same time no. There may be sensations slight tingling or patting in the surgical area. This is how those who own experience became convinced of the reality of the methods of Filipino healers.

Treatment process using the method of Filipino healers

The way an operation performed by a healer looks from the outside seems like something supernatural or outright fraudulent.

A seemingly ordinary person stands over a patient. He is in a semi-conscious state. And then the doctor runs his hands over the patient’s body, as if scanning him. Then the hands stop in a certain zone (this turns out to be exactly the zone in which the patient has health problems). And then it’s as if the healer’s fingers penetrate the body of the person lying in front of him and unimaginable manipulations begin.

With deft movements of his fingers, the healer makes some passes. We see blood or something that looks like blood, but it does not flow, as we panicky expect when we see a break in the skin. The healer continues the treatment, removing blood clots or other substances from the person’s body with his bare hands. This is the reason why the patient feels unwell. This is how (naturally, differently in each case) Filipino healers treat.

It is natural that some observers and those who simply learned about the fact of Philippine medicine perceive such manipulations sharply: with distrust and open accusations of quackery.

Attempts to expose the methods of healers

Following skeptical attacks towards the miraculous practice of exotic healers in the last century, attempts were made to explain the “show” they put on before the public. Healers in the Philippines today are still actively provoking skeptics to all sorts of checks.

The process of operating with bare hands has been explained by various extraordinary interpretations. "Penetration" of the healer's hands under skin human being is nothing more than a high-class illusion. The “blood” that appears and the resulting “clumps” of disease (or bad energy) is a cleverly done puncture of a special bag of liquid (even chicken blood, perhaps), taken by the charlatan as a prop for a “trick”.

However, some people still claimed that after the healing session their health improved. To this, convinced skeptics object that healers have the gift of hypnotic influence and convince their “victims” that they really feel better.

The Skeptic's Point of View

There are many things that can be viewed with skepticism when studying the Philippine method of healing. Well, almost everything! Perform a complex operation with your hands, without causing an infection and getting positive result for the patient's health - this is from the realm of fantasy.

When you get acquainted with the miraculous treatment, questions after questions arise, and this is natural. So why, given such opportunities, do Filipinos still get sick and die? The abilities of healers go beyond our understanding, but they are not able to achieve such results.

Despite their wonderfulness and dozens of extraordinary stories of people who were healed by healers on the Flippins and outside the islands, they can’t do everything.

Do healers really penetrate body tissue with their hands?

Healers interested in the practice of psychosurgery are tormented by one important question: do the doctor’s hands really penetrate into the patient’s body? Does this really happen without the help of instruments, like with conventional surgeons?

Alternative medicine, the types of which amaze the minds of most visitors to clinics, has a rich palette of methods. The mental tools of healer surgery occupy a prominent place among them, and here's why.

The answer to the question that worries us will be positive (if we take starting point our trust in the Filipinos and their healing miracles). Healers penetrate physical body person, but this does not happen with every operation. As the healers themselves say, this is not always necessary.

Why is this so? Healers also give a very conscious explanation for this. The disease occurs due to the appearance in energy body person has bad, unhealthy energy. This is what Filipino healers extract from patients during sessions. Often, to conduct such a psycho-operation, it is not necessary to open the physical body.

The very penetration of the healer’s hands into the body can be compared to immersion in water. The water molecules seem to part before our hands, allowing them to freely carry out any actions in the water. Similarly, due to the innate special talent, the healer enters the human body. Incredible - but maybe real!

What can't healers do?

Points of view on Philippine phenomena are different due to the fact that only a small amount of people have experienced it or have reliable sources of information about it. However, from any point of view, a logical question arises: what can’t healers do?

Like traditional medicine, treatment with Philippine methods cannot prolong a person’s intended life span. You can remove the disease, thus returning your allotted time.

Mental illnesses are also beyond the power of healers. Although they deal with the human spirit, the ability to influence the mental is limited. This can be explained somewhat simplistically. Philippine surgery is, first and foremost, surgery, that is, it involves the removal of unhealthy tissue from the human body. With the psyche, healers are not able to carry out such manipulations.

Let's add to this the fact that, as in all fields of activity, there are good specialists and not so good ones. This also applies to Filipino healers.

Specialization of Filipino healers

Personal abilities have great importance in which direction of treatment the healer will develop most. For example, one of the best healers in the Philippines, Labo, works with tumors and has become widely known outside his country precisely because of this. Other diseases also respond to the miraculous treatment of the famous healer.

Another Filipino healer, Jose Segundo, is best at manipulating teeth.

Principles of healers in practice

As for what a conscientious healer will undertake and what he won’t, the situation will be the same as with traditional doctors. The healer will undertake to treat any patient, even if his condition is hopeless. Just like our doctors, he will try to extend a person’s life or reduce his suffering.

Regarding the issue of treating mental illnesses, healers themselves openly say that this area is not in their power. Naturally, you can find such specialists in local Philippine medicine, but this will be a completely different type of healing. Most often, locals assign this creepy concept of “exorcism of demons.” Other representatives of local medicine are engaged in healing souls from “demons”.

Are the capabilities of Filipino healers real or

It is impossible to draw clear conclusions about the reality of healing using the method of Filipino doctors based on everything we know. To believe or be completely dissuaded, you need to encounter this amazing phenomenon with your own eyes.

As with any theory, there will always be those who agree and those who are against. You can find many facts confirming the reality of the phenomenon or fraud. Our choice remains ours: we choose the sources we trust.

It is clear that alternative medicine in the form of healing has acquired another mind-blowing technique on the path to health.

Among healers, undoubtedly, there are people who have some kind of gift. The actions of such healers resound throughout the world and deserve the deepest respect and admiration. There are also charlatans whose plans are only to profit from the trust gained by true healers.

Let us note that the acute rejection of the fact of healing in our country, and in many others, is determined by the difference in worldview. It is difficult for us to imagine that a person can have such power over physical and mental matters. But in countries where the most ancient folk beliefs have been preserved, people willingly believe in this. Apparently there are reasons...

To summarize what has been said...

Filipino healers are an extraordinary phenomenon in the rich world of various alternative medical teachings. They can treat a person by performing surgery without instruments or pharmaceuticals.

They first learned about healers as healers who worked miracles in the 16th century. Since then, they have become known in all countries, but views on healing have remained controversial. No wonder: it is extremely difficult to believe in a miracle among familiar things.

We hope our article brightened your time and quenched your thirst for knowledge about such an interesting phenomenon of our world as Philippine healing.

I’ve heard for a long time about those who perform operations without instruments or incisions at all. Sensational news about the mysterious “surgeons without a scalpel”, or healers (from the English word heal) living in the Philippines, has been exciting people for decades.

What kind of phenomenon is this? Does it really exist or are we being fooled again and cheated out of money?


The first healer to become known outside the Philippines was healer Eleuterio Terte. He began treating people in 1926, at the age of 25. Moreover, at first he used a knife for operations, for which he soon paid the price - he was accused of “illegal medical practice.”

Having with difficulty extricated himself from the investigation, during which he swore an oath not to take up a scalpel again, Eleuterio Terte began to think about how to live further. And unexpectedly he discovered that he didn’t need a knife: he could act with his bare hands.

The trained hands of a well-prepared person are actually a terrible weapon. A skilled special agent can kill an enemy with one finger. For example, in China, for a long time, healers practiced who could easily pull out a diseased tooth by grabbing it with two fingers.

History is silent about how and on whom Eleuterio Terte trained, learning to open a patient’s body with his bare hand without leaving any scars on it.

He became famous after he helped a certain American officer, and director Ormond recorded his manipulations on film and released the film in wide release.

Then Dr. Steller, a professor of physics at the University of Dortmund, got involved. He was not too lazy to write a whole work about Eleuterio Terte, in which he admitted that, observing “operations without a scalpel,” he did not find any “sleight of hand.”

The professor assured that Filipino healers can perform surgical operations with their bare hands without hypnosis, without anesthesia, without pain and infection.

He was echoed by the Japanese physician Isamu Kimura, who examined the blood after a number of Terte’s operations and determined that it belonged to the operated patients. True, sometimes the analysis showed that the clots were of inorganic origin, that is, they did not belong to either a person or an animal, but looked like dyes. But Terte explained this by saying that these clots are nothing more than the materialization of the disease itself, “bad energy” in the hands of the healer.

Healers are grouped mainly in the Baguio region, claiming that there is some kind of special cosmic environment, thanks to which local healers acquire superhuman strength.

In fact, Baguio is the only cool place in the Philippines with wonderful, peaceful landscapes. Tourists from all over the world willingly come to Baguio. It is precisely because of the abundance of tourist clients that healers have chosen these places.

So, healers are healers who use the centuries-old experience of traditional Philippine medicine, which allows them to perform surgical operations using only their hands. Allegedly, they push apart the patient’s tissues, perform necessary actions and then a lot happens fast healing spread fabrics. In some cases there is blood, but it quickly stops, and in others it does not happen at all! But all these cases have one thing in common - minutes after the operation, no traces remain on the patient’s skin!

These specialists also have another name – “psychic surgeon”.

How can this be? After all, the Philippines, to be honest, is not the most developed country in which modern medicine can reach such heights. Maybe the Filipinos know a secret that allows them to expand human abilities so much? Or is it just sleight of hand?
Rumors about such miracle operations, of course, awakened the desire of many people to see everything with their own eyes, and some even decided to test the effect of healers “in their own skin.”

It must be said that there are quite a lot of such specialists in the Philippines who can perform bloodless, seamless and painless operations. What talented people!

The healers themselves say that God and faith help them “heal” the sick. Therefore, in the “operating room” there is always a crucifix of Christ and the Bible. Moreover, at the beginning of the “reception day” the healer puts his hands on the Bible and begins to mutter something, and when he considers that he has reached a “certain condition”, he begins to perform operations. One healer can perform many operations per day. Like on a conveyor belt - one patient leaves, another comes in, etc. Moreover, each operation (which is abdominal operations!) lasts only a few minutes.


According to healers, they feel the sore spot with the tips of their fingers, which emit streams of energy. How are these operations carried out? The patient lies down on the couch, and the healer begins to massage the painful part of the body. At the same time, there is no talk of any kind of sterility, anesthesia and other “preoperative things”. He touches the skin, warms it up, and then suddenly plunges his hand into the collected skin fold, from which drops of blood are released. Slurping sounds are heard. The healer feels the tumor or diseased organ inside, removes it (again with just his fingers) and pulls it out. Some kind of organic material is actually visible in his hands. Drops of blood from the patient's skin are wiped with a tissue soaked in coconut oil, and then, after a few moments, no trace of intervention remains on the skin. This is the picture observed by the witnesses present at the operation. Moreover, representatives of the media from different countries were present at such operations more than once, and everything that happened was repeatedly filmed.

What is the patient's experience? He supposedly does not experience pain, only pleasant sensations. The next question that arises in any sane person’s mind is whether the healer’s patient is a “decoy” who has not undergone any treatment at all. medical interventions? Maybe this is a staging? A kind of advertising to attract real patients, from whom you can take a lot of money for supposed help provided to them? After all, it is clear that a person suffering from some kind of illness is ready to go to great lengths to recover and save his life. Even if traditional medicine considers it quackery. And it must be said that there are many such people, and healers, accordingly, get richer and richer. After all, the operation costs on average about two thousand dollars.

Healers say that people who have been treated by them surgical treatment, you can’t immediately run to do an ultrasound - you need to wait a couple of months. After all, the healer starts the healing process, which will continue for more than one week. For the same reason, the patient should not wash for some time after the operation.

Often people who have lost their last hope. History knows more than one case when Filipino healers “operated” famous people. For example, American presenter Andy Kaufman underwent surgery with a healer and was diagnosed with lung cancer; he died a few months later.

In 1975, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) declared that the activities of healers were fraudulent. This was done on the basis of a court decision prohibiting American travel agencies from arranging health tours to healers, which specifically noted: “The operations of healers are pure and complete fake, and their ‘surgery’ with their bare hands is a simple fake.”

In 1990, after conducting research, The American Cancer Society (ACS) stated that it found no evidence of any positive influence surgeons' operations on the course of the disease and persistently convinces patients not to waste time and not resort to their help. The British Columbia Cancer Agency has the same position. The essence of the claims is not that healers’ operations can directly harm the patient, but in the possible delay, or even exclusion usual treatment, which is fraught with fatal consequences.

In Russia, no official cases related to healers could be found. However, there are interviews with famous surgeons who studied this phenomenon. For example, the story of Dr. med. Gershanovich M.L. - Professor, Head of the Department of Therapeutic Oncology of the Research Institute of Oncology named after. prof. N. N. Petrova. When he was the team doctor for Anatoly Karpov in 1978, he was in Baguio as part of the world championship match with Viktor Korchnoi. Then I managed to visit the healer, and for research purposes. Gershanovich M. decided to undergo surgery himself to find out the truth. He wanted a varicose vein on his leg and a small, benign tumor, a basal cell carcinoma, removed above his left eye. Both are very convenient for demonstrating the result, since they were clearly present on the body. Despite all the efforts of the healer, the removal did not work. And even vice versa. As a result of these efforts, the mentioned formations became inflamed and they had to be urgently operated on at home, in Leningrad. Gershanovich M. L. expressed the result of the experiment on himself with the words: “After everything I saw, I can take an oath: there was no surgery, there was a skillful trick.”

The popular illusionist James Randi, known for exposing psychics, considers the “surgery” of healers to be a fraud of deft hands. He claims that their actions can only deceive unprepared spectators, but are completely obvious to professionals. By the way, through his Foundation he offers a million American dollars to anyone who can prove supernatural abilities. Randy himself easily repeated the actions of the healers. Quite a few active magicians did the same. For example, Milbourne Christopher, Robert Gurtler, Criss Angel.

Explaining the actions of the healer, James Randi claims that his hand, located under the fold of the patient’s collected skin, creates in the latter a complete sensation of penetration inside. The removed fragments are easily depicted as straightened lumps of animal entrails hidden either in the hand or in an easily accessible place at table level. Simulation of bleeding was achieved by Randy using a small bag of blood, or a sponge soaked in blood. However, to enhance the plausibility of the illusion, there are known cases of making real cuts

Psychic surgeons are trying to enter the global market. They drive around different countries, doctors are trained there, and especially gifted ones are invited for an internship in the Philippines. But this activity did not receive much development. IN developed countries healers are considered scammers whose activities are strictly prohibited.

Therefore, those who want to be cured have to go to the Philippines.


Not long ago, Baku journalist Sharif Azadov visited the Philippines. This is how he describes his meeting with one of the most famous healers.

“Alex Orbito is a short, thin 43-year-old man with pleasant features. He first discovered his abilities as a healer when he was sixteen years old. He studied with his father, also a healer. But Alex’s son, unfortunately, does not have the ability to concentrate energy, and therefore went to a regular medical college."

Orbito works every other day for 45-50 minutes a day, it can’t do any more. Must rest, replenish lost energy. He does not operate on children, he is afraid of harming them. psychic centers, treats only with manipulations.

Orbito says goodbye to journalists, saying that he needs to concentrate before operations. And when they start, they will come for us. There is a glass partition in the large room, and behind it is an operating room. Before the operation begins, all those present sing psalms.

When Orbito entered the partition, everyone fell silent. Taking the Bible in his hands, the healer leaned over - the silence became complete. He sat like that for about fifteen to twenty minutes.

The operating room is an ordinary room with a narrow table. Two nurses in ordinary sweaters and skirts, the healer himself in the same T-shirt that he was wearing during our conversation. Several jars of oily liquids catch your eye. The only medical stuff here is cotton swabs.

There was no long hand washing either; the healer simply rinsed his hands in a jar of white liquid. And so after each operation - he dipped his hands into the jar and wiped them with the same towel.

The first patient was a woman. The healer, with quick, short movements, clicked out small bumps from her breasts, while pinkish blood barely flowed. The woman's face was calm and did not reflect any pain or discomfort.

Then a woman with an umbilical hernia lay on the table. “I stood close to the operating table and timed all operations,” writes Sharif Azadov. - Before my eyes forefinger The healer, after a little massaging, suddenly entered the stomach like dough.

There was blood, but only a little, and Orbito pulled out a piece of meat from there. Then he began to vigorously stroke this place, as if tightening it, lubricated it with oil, and the woman calmly stood up from the table. There was not a shadow of suffering on her face. The operation lasted forty-three seconds.

He also removed the appendix, although in just over a minute. Once upon a time, I also had my appendix removed, and, if I’m not mistaken, it lasted more than an hour. Again, before my eyes, the healer’s fingers easily, without tearing the tissue or pressing, entered the human body. The patient's face is calm, slightly wary, but no more. You can see the healer doing something there, inside. Then he removed and showed the appendix to the patient and threw it into a white basin.

I asked Orbito how he connects the ends of the vessels, and he explained that he does not sew them together, but sort of seals them with energy. It’s interesting that he works with one hand, and with the palm of the other he seems to create a biofield. Bending over, I carefully looked at the place where my appendix had just been removed before my eyes. Not a seam, not a trace of a wound..."

This is how Sharif Azadov ended his story. But here is a description of the same events, belonging to another eyewitness, more prepared, and therefore looking at things more soberly.

It’s not at all easy to figure out whether an operation is really being performed or whether it’s just an appearance,” said Mikhail Lazarevich Gershanovich, professor, doctor of medical sciences, oncologist, “At first, the healer’s actions make a stunning impression. Even to people who are skeptical. And I was not just skeptical - I was obsessed with the idea of ​​experiencing the work of healers on myself, examining it from the inside.

Gershanovich traveled to the Philippines with Anatoly Karpov as his doctor when he conducted the world championship match with Viktor Korchnoi in Baguio.

In a conversation with journalists - Oleg Moroz and Antonina Galaeva - Gershanovich said that, being a convinced materialist, and, moreover, a doctor, he did not take into account all the evidence of ecstatic eyewitnesses - you never know what will seem to a person in a state of suggestion.


“Therefore, the question of whether there is a “Philippine miracle” did not interest me,” said Gershanovich. “I was firmly convinced that he was gone.” The laws of nature are unshakable. Cut or spread the skin with your fingers, subcutaneous tissue impossible. No films, no evidence will convince me otherwise. At least until I test the Filipino “knife” on my own skin. Moreover, if they open me up, I won’t believe it, I’ll find out how they did it. So, with this mood I went to the healers. However, besides curiosity, I also had another incentive: at that time, Anatoly Karpov’s father was seriously ill. And I wanted to look in traditional medicine, including the methods of healers, for something that could help him. Alas, I did not find anything like that, and this further strengthened my skepticism.

Moreover, Gershanovich personally suffered from the intervention of the healer. He asked to have a tumor removed from his left eye. It was the so-called basal cell carcinoma, which is still being debated among doctors whether it is a malignant tumor or not (it does not metastasize).

While waiting his turn, Gershanovich had the opportunity to observe the work of healers and their patients. It seemed surprising to him that almost all healers have some kind of main profession that feeds them - a mechanic, a mason... And in between, when there is an influx of tourists, they practice chiropractic. In addition, it struck Gershanovich that patients from time to time were people whom he had already seen with other healers in the same role...

In general, the more Gershanovich looked closely at the healer’s work, the more his conviction became stronger: there is no surgery here, there are skillful tricks and nothing more...

But now it’s my turn,” the professor continued his story. - I asked to remove a tumor under my left eye and a varicose vein on my leg (by the way, very convenient for demonstration - it would be immediately obvious whether it was removed or not). Hiller readily agreed, warning, however, that he must pray over me.

Finally the healer said that the spirit had appeared and he was ready to begin. For a long time, he painfully squeezed the tumor with iron fingers, tenacious like pincers, but nothing happened.

After that, the tumor began to grow quickly, and I had to hurry to remove it. Not in the Philippines, of course, but at home, with an excellent surgeon. So, only a small scar remained as a memory of that adventure. But he wouldn’t have existed, Gershanovich is sure, if he had turned to the same surgeon right away, even before his trip to the Philippines.

As for the varicose veins, the healer also crushed it quite a bit. As a result, thrombophlebitis developed, which then also had to be treated for a long time using conventional methods...

In general, as statistics show, 90 percent of healer patients, upon returning to their home, are forced to seek treatment again. medical care- already to ordinary doctors.

The remaining ten percent is divided approximately equally. Five percent were people who did not need any surgery at all; their malaise was only a consequence of excessive suspiciousness. And finally, the remaining five percent comes from people whom healers actually helped.

For example, in one patient, the healer removed an atheroma (benign tumor) on the chest. But this atheroma was special, like a large blackhead - it was associated with a blockage sebaceous gland, had an outward course and, therefore, could easily be removed by simple extrusion.

That, in fact, is the whole story about the secrets of Filipino healers. As they say, draw your own conclusions. All I have to do is add to what has been said the mention of one more piece of evidence that I discovered on the Internet. Former doctor Stanislav Suldin, having arrived in the Philippines, decided to get rid of stones along with his vacation. gallbladder. The healer performed the operation and said that everything was fine now.

However, upon returning to Moscow, Stanislav still had to undergo a cholecystectomy - an operation to remove stones from the gall bladder.

“There was no healer nearby, the anesthesia was normal, and our surgeons, guys from my stream at the institute, operated,” writes Stanislav. “For which I thank them very much.” And he adds: “The guys found no traces of the healer’s intervention, they simply did their job. They are practical and don’t believe in miracles.”
What can we say in conclusion? In my opinion, suggestibility is of great importance in this story. A person with an agile psyche will easily believe in a virtually bloodless operation, and in the instant healing of tissues, and in positive effect. So be it, if the healer’s actions did not harm the body, but only calmed the patient’s psyche.

As they say, to be treated by Filipino healers or not to be treated is everyone’s business. Be healthy!

Lately, when official medicine has practically lost its “human face”; patients increasingly prefer alternative healing methods. Of the many non-traditional methods of treatment that exist today, perhaps the most amazing is the art of Filipino healers (esoreiter.ru).

Some consider these people to be truly omnipotent healers, while others consider them virtuoso charlatans. Witnesses from many countries claim that the magical hands of healers actually penetrate human bodies and save those whom traditional medicine has abandoned. After these operations, no traces remain on the patients’ bodies!..

So who are these people - brilliant healers or scammers?

Healers are traditional Filipino healers who perform surgical operations without using any special instruments or even gloves. However, they do not use anesthetics and this also differs from other healers and especially modern surgeons. The work of healers is somewhat akin to psychosurgery, since they influence patients both physically and mentally.

The word “healer” comes from the English “heal,” which means “to heal.” However, this name is “local”; In the West, such healers are better known as “psychic surgeons” and “surgeons of the fourth dimension.” It is clear that such names intrigue the simple-minded ordinary people even more...

The first written mentions of healers date back to XVI century and belong to members of the crew of a sea ship who ended up on a Philippine island and there witnessed magical healing. One of the sailors was lucky enough to experience this miracle for himself, after which his condition improved dramatically. However, this information remained in the old diaries.

Only in the forties of the last century were Europeans able to record how a Filipino healer worked with a patient. After that, the whole world learned about healers. Today you can find many photographs and videos of miraculous healings on the Internet.

There are now no more than 50 real healers, despite the fact that in almost every settlement in the Philippines there are 8-10 people who call themselves this big word. The most famous is June Labo, to whom patients come from all over the world. Perlito Alcazar, Maria Bilosana, Nida Talon are also very popular.

Like other traditional healers, Filipino healers use herbal medicine, massage, various spells and other unconventional methods of treatment. However, the main difference in their actions is surgical practice.

Fantastic surgery by Filipino healers

These people spend their unique operations literally with your bare hands. Without a scalpel, clamps and all other instruments, they penetrate into human body and take it out from there foreign objects, stones, slags, etc.

These amazing operations, like conventional surgeries, begin with patient preparation. Preparation includes communication between the healer and the patient and general meditation. Then the healer tells the patient in detail what exactly he will do and how he will do it. Next, pain relief is performed - but without the usual injections. By pressing on certain points, the healer performs partial anesthesia - and the patient becomes insensitive to pain.

During the operation, the patient remains fully or partially conscious. However, he does not experience pain or any discomfort. Those who have experienced the skill of healers say that during the operation you can feel light slaps or a soft tingling sensation.

From the outside, such an action seems like something supernatural. The healer scans the patient's naked body, running his hands over it. Then, at a certain place, the hands stop - and the healer’s fingers enter the patient’s flesh, after which simply unimaginable manipulations begin. Despite the appearance of blood, the patient remains calm, and the healer removes blood clots, tumors or some other formations from his body. These “treasures” are shown to the patient, telling the patient that the cause of the disease has been eliminated and the person is completely healthy.

Are Filipino healers scammers?

What are the arguments of those who consider surgeons-healers to be skillful scammers? They refer to the fact that during the preoperative conversation with the healer the patient is offered a glass of alcohol tincture some herbs. Skeptics believe that it is with the help of this drink, and not acupressure and meditation, that pain relief is achieved for the patient.

Further, how does the healer know where to look for what requires removal, and what generally hurts the patient? So, in order to find out, they give him a difficult glass to “spank”, after which they simply find out from the “stirred” patient what is bothering him. That's it, no more no less!

And of course, the absence of any traces of the operation is completely baffling. The inexorable logic of skeptics says: if there was blood, if something was taken out of a person, where is the trace - a wound or a scar? Since they are not there, there was no operation, but... a simple suggestion that was applied to impressionable and often desperate people. Well, of course! And this explains everything!

Meanwhile, there are fully confirmed facts of healing by healers of patients whom official medicine recognized as hopeless. After returning from the Philippines, such patients are in no hurry to see doctors; it’s just that after some time, it is completely by chance that they do not have a certain disease, for example, a cancerous tumor.

It is true that they say that Filipino healers do not undertake to help people with diseases of the brain, blood and bone cancer, as well as very advanced cancer. As for all other patients, healers accurately “detect” those who do not believe in their powerful power, and also refuse treatment. As they say, according to your faith may it be...

Video: The Mystery of the Philippine Heelers

Healer is traditional healer, who is capable of performing surgical operations only by manipulating his hands. Traditional medicine does not recognize their activities. It is believed that the mechanism of action of healers is similar to the effect of placebo. Surgical penetration of hands into the patient's body and very rapid healing of wounds is manipulation.

In general, the operations performed by healers have some common features. First, the healer massages the area where the sore spot is located with his fingers, collecting a fold of skin. Then he plunges his fingers into the formed fold, penetrating them inside the body. In this case, a certain amount of blood is released. And then the organic material is removed from the body. The traces of blood on the skin are then cleared. After the operation, no wounds or scars remain. In most cases, the entire procedure is performed only by manual manipulation. But there are times when healers still make small incisions.

Healers use absolutely various techniques and treatment methods. For example, in the Philippines they use various plants, create therapeutic nutrition regimens, and use local types of massages with reflexology. Those healers who perform operations without the use of instruments most often use the so-called “psychic surgery” technique.

Usually before operations they enter into a meditative state. Before work, as Filipino healers call their operations, they pray to God in private. So they concentrate on the task at hand and come out to the public and their patient collected and determined, in a kind of trance. It is believed that during operations, healers cleanse the chakras of sick people and open their “third eye.” According to local beliefs, they increase the patient’s strength in the fight against the disease. During this unusual operation, patients experience virtually no pain. Healers treat tumors, hernias, cysts, hemorrhoids, cataracts and other diseases. But the healer may not undertake treatment of the person who applied for a number of reasons. Healers cannot increase a person's lifespan. Mental illness is clearly beyond their control.

How do healers manage to perform operations only with their hands and without leaving scars or open wounds? The human body is capable of emitting energy, just like each of its individual organs. If you run your hands along the body, you can feel this radiation in the form of tingling and temperature difference from different organs. Filipino healers can see this energy released with their own eyes. The healer does not need a preliminary diagnosis. He knows how a healthy organ should glow. He makes the diagnosis himself, because he instantly sees the pathology.

During operations, healers are supposed to be able to emit special radiation from their fingertips that helps pull apart body tissue. The healer places his hands on the sore spot. Almost immediately blood seeps out from this area. If you try to describe the entire process of the operation, then in brief the healer does not enter the tissues of the body from top to bottom, but, on the contrary, squeezes out the diseased part from below and from the side - upward. When the healer removes his hands, the tissues close without any traces.