WATCH: The Practice of Bloodletting in New Delhi
Oct. 27, 2015 - In New Delhi, India, dozens of patients a day seek treatment at Rahat Open Surgery, where a practitioner uses a razor blade to draw blood. The practice is widely discredited in Western medicine—aside from its modern-day application for a few conditions—but those who still perform bloodletting, or phlebotomy, believe that "bad blood" is the source of most infirmities. Some patients look with hope to the New Delhi center when more traditional treatments fail to help them or when doctors tell them their ailments are incurable. Bloodletting originated thousands of years ago, and its popularity peaked in the 19th century.
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Bloodletting Is Still Happening, Despite Centuries of Harm"
Transcript
Mohammad Gayas, Retired Venesectionist:
Get a carpet and spread it.
It is not a question
of rust!
Are you mad?
This is our stock, to show people like you that we have cured a record number of patients in the world.
No... No… you can tell what you want!
Now they are interviewing me!
Rajan Zaveri - Camera Man:
Take one.
Mohammad Gayas, Retired Venesectionist:
My name is Muhammad Gayas. I live in Daryaganj, New Delhi.
My practice is ancestral. It was started by my grandfather.
Mohammad Gyas, Retired Venesectionist:
Just like in the whole world there is a repair centre for cars...this is a body repair centre.
We take out blood from the veins. God has given us this body wired with veins just like electricity is wired. With the brain as a transformer.
Got it?
Iqabol Gayas, Venesectionist:
Let's go.
Kumle Chandra - Patient:
My name is Kumle Chandra. I'm from Uttranchal. My native place was Ganchan.
I've been suffering for 3-5 years, because of joints
pain provoked by arthritis.
I want to give this information to all the people suffering from arthritis, sciatica, spondylitis and back pain and also migraine. They should come here for this treatment.
Said Dama - Patient:
I'm Said Dama. I've come from the city of Kolkata. Earlier known as Calcutta.
I've been suffering for the last three years of spondylitis, severe back pain...
Mohammad Gyas - Retired Venesectionist:
There is no treatment for this in the world. It happens when the blood goes bad. Body pain happens when the blood goes bad.
Kumle Chandra, Patient:
Methodex, folic acids, Ceso 500, Calpol 500, Ektobex 910b. I have taken allopathic treatment, homeopathic treatment and ayurvedic treatment...
That time I came here, and after 50 days I feel...now I can walk, I can run. Allopathic doctor cannot believe it.
Said Dama, Patient:
So last summer I came here and I did get a lot of relief, but you have to go through a lot of restrictions in diet.
After I've gone back I've relieved from the pain for at least three months. Then again, you know…our delicacies…when they make biriani and other good food. I started eating them, and again, slowly pain started troubling me.
I'm still in the process of treatment, let's see...I will come back again. They take only 40 INR a day ($0.7 USD). That's nothing, basically.
While coming here, I've become friend with a lot of people, and they given me feedback.
Unnamed Couple - Patients:
We all stay here like brothers and sisters. With a lot of love and camaraderie. We like it here. It is a nice atmosphere. We stay here for 10, 12 or 15 days together
The treatment is going well. The people here look after us with a lot of love and care.
Mohammad Gyas - Retired Venesectionist:
Allopathic, homeopathic...after searching the world for these treatments, people come to us.
Kumle Chandra - Patient:
90% I'm now OK.
Nobody can tell me that I'm suffering for arthritis!
Said Dama - Patient:
So many people have come here.
Of course doctors told they cannot cure me. No chance of curing spondylitis.
I've come here, let's hope for the best.
Inshallah everything will be fine.
Thank you so much.