Sand therapy finds takers

Kakinada: An alternative system of medicine, known as ‘Beach Sand Therapy’, is gaining in popularity in Kakinada. Dr Krishnam Raju, a practitioner of alternative medicine system, has launched a campaign to popularise sand therapy.

As a part of the therapy, the patient is buried up to his/her neck in the sand for about half-an-hour. Practitioners claim many diseases, even chronic ones, can be cured. Dr Raju says the therapy is thousands of years old, but has been neglected. He also practises several other forms of alternative medicines. He asks his patients to hug trees.

Different trees are hugged for different diseases. He said patients have noticed remarkable improvement in the condition. Dr Raju feels serious research should be taken up into these systems. 

They should not be dismissed as absurd, however, strange they may seem, he said. He added that sand therapy is a part of his investigative medical research. He claimed that beach sand has a special mixture of minerals which can help relieve aching bones and joints and invigorate the body, mind and soul.