Thilagavathi

Hello. My name is Thilagavathi. My age is sixty-one. I am now in Bengaluru. My native place is Kanniyakumari. I have been in Chennai for some time. Now circumstances require me to go to Bengaluru. I am looking after my grandchildren. At that time, for about two months, both legs had swollen. Because of the swelling I could not walk much. For two months I just left it as it was. All right, saying where can I go to be healed, and to get some temporary relief now, I went to a nearby allopathy. When I went they gave an injection. They had given a painkiller. That relieved it at once. The next day, just the same, the body swelled, the legs swelled, and both legs were swollen again as before. I could not walk. All right, we were talking a great deal about what to do. At that time, all my husband's relations had been in treatment here at this AVN Arogya Ayurvedic Hospital since the year 1985. Not only that — I too came here in 1985. My father-in-law's knees were all swollen. They brought him. I came to see him then. After that my own small treatments — that is, I never came and stayed here. But when there was small arm pain or leg pain like this, I would come from time to time and get medicine and go. It was reasonably good. With that, we set off and came from Bengaluru. On the twenty-sixth, Monday, we were admitted with Dr. Biju. On the first day I took an appointment. We came and joined on Monday. Having taken their appointment we were admitted. From that day the treatment was in a good manner. Looking at the legs, the doctor spoke very affectionately. Saying that it could certainly be healed, they admitted me, and twice, twice a day, they did that oil massage. Pouring that herbal water and then giving fomentation, and then in the evening likewise, they were doing this for me in a session. In about four days the swelling reduced. Truly it is something to be astonished at.One day I came weeping, very distressed like this. It is the legs, is it not? Legs are a very important organ for us. Doing work, and getting about. If one takes to bed, who will look after one afterwards — there was all that distress. When I came here I was very satisfied. In a day or two the swelling reduced well and I got a good improvement. And it is not that the body did not reduce. It reduced step by step. It reduced gradually rather than the whole body reducing. Now it is the ninth day; today is the eighth day. Today my leg is reasonably good, the swelling has all reduced and the legs are in a good state. Tomorrow I can go home again; they are discharging me and I think I can go home. And then, as far as this hospital is concerned, it is a system of medicine without any side effects at all, and truly I was very happy with all the medicines. They gave a decoction and everything in the morning. Likewise all the doctors who came spoke very comforting words to me. The sisters, the sisters who did the physiotherapy, were all very affectionate. Truly the way they gave the fomentation and the way they spoke were all very good. The hospital design is very good. Likewise one night, two days before, as soon as I had a bad gas problem, even though it was after 11:30, as soon as we called the nursing station they came running. There, a tablet — a doctor who was staying the night came. I do not know the name; I did not ask. She came and gave me that tablet and went. Call again if anything comes up, madam, they said at the station, and spoke very comfortingly. And truly it reduced after taking that tablet at night. When I came I had rather a lot of phlegm. I came with a cough and then a gas problem. The lehyam they gave and what they call the bath — when I took all of that, it is very good. Everything has been relieved. It has been relieved. I am astonished myself. Thephlegm that had built up. Likewise that gas trouble which I always used to have. All that trouble has been greatly relieved. Besides that, the knees and the hands and legs and all those joints were somewhat painful. I got a good relief, and tomorrow I am being discharged.