Puttur Kattu(bandage) dates back to
the year 1881, when the native medicine invented accidentally by Gopala
Raju. Bone setter Gopala found the
herbal medicine rom the locally available plants to treat the fractured
bones. One day he happened to notice the
limping of a sheep lamb and taking a kindness to it, applied a herbal paste
prepared from the plants located in the puttur hills. He was surprised to notice the quick recovery
of the sheep lamb. Gopala Raju than tested
this herbal paste on other animals before successfully applying this medicine
on Humans and since the legacy has been carried on. The importance of herbal paste preparation
and application procedure is still carried on.
People who have a fracture or sprain or a muscle or nerve pull are
treated here. Bone setter first checks
for X-Ray, if they have any, otherwise there is no requirement of any
sophisticated equipment to start with the herb treatment. Between 200 and 300 patients arrive at one of
the centre in Puttur village in Chittoor distract to get their broken bones set. The Vaidyas use herbs, splints and bandage to
immobilize the broken limb. It is called
a natural way of bone setting. A study
was also undertaken by a journal to analyse the techniques in diagnosis, way of
management, medicinal preparation, plants used and way of applications by traditional bone setter
TBS) Vaidyas with special reference to Puttur which is famous. According to study, 54% of the studied
patients came to Puttur TBS on the advice of previous patients there. It was observed that more educated people are
patronizing this therapy and 23% patients of the observed cases took discharge
from modern hospital voluntarily to receive Puttur Kattu treatment because they
observed that they were nowhere getting cured or the conventional doctors have
given up on them making a full recovery, such cases has also been successful at
Puttur Bone Setting Clinic.
The herb used in the paste was collected tactfully, since the
villagers were not willing to reveal it's identity and more so because it is
their traditional treatment method which is more perfect than the conventional Allopathic
Orthopaedicians using Plaster of Paris. Nowadays
with the entry of multinationals in India and industrialization, many such
herbs are plants used for serious illness are going out of existence. In the not so distant future, Indians will be
dependent on those medicines by big pharmaceuticals in India who will ensure
that Indians are made slave to their medicine and keep on spending money for
treatment if the Government does not do anything to revive traditional Ayurveda
and other alternative medicines which are 100% more better without side
effects.
One of the center address is given here – No.53, Srinivasa
Perumal Sannadhi, 2nd Street, Royapettah, Chennai -600 014, Tel: +91
44 28350616 and +9393745336. If you are
not able to contact, let me know.
On the other hand, Allopathic
Orthopaedicians using Plaster of Paris to support broken bones. The bones heal but Plaster of Paris often
became cause for several complications.
Modern Orthopaedic surgeons go in for internal fixators to circumvent
the complications caused by PoP. In this
method, the broken bones are put in place with various types of rods, plates
and screws. The objective of the method
is to speed up recovery without any of the complications that go with a PoP
cast. There is no atrophy of muscles and
other external tissue, but the method is still not favoured because it is
invasive. Over and above that internal
fixators do not work always and he bone specialist are forced to use “external
bone fixation systems” that are different from PoP. Nowadays computer navigation also helps the
surgeons to be less invasive and get better results reducing human error but
those near Puttur Bone Setter who have experienced the traditional treatment,
the cost of which is also minimal compared to conventional still prefer to take
cases to Puttur Bone Setting Clinic, more so because cases that are said to be
nothing can be done further as per conventional doctors are possible with Puttur
Bone Setting Clinics.
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