Pain therapy without surgery, medication

Pain therapy without surgery, medication

Sandakan: Pain (auricular) specialist Professor Dr Harlem Shah said pain can be relieved using 'auricular therapy' or 'auricular acupuncture' without surgery or medication.

His treatment involves inserting a titanium needle or special acupuncture needle into the ear lobe of a patient without causing injury.

"People suffering pain usually take painkillers. But I don't use medicines or painkillers. I believe in auricular therapy to ease pain," he said.

Dr Harlem was in Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan recently to conduct a seminar on pain relief.

The seminar was conducted at Sabah Hotel here in English and Cantonese although Dr Harlem also speaks in four other languages - Bahasa Malaysia, Thai, Japanese and Spanish.

When met by Daily Express, Dr Harlem said previously most of those attending his seminar have already consulted many doctors and some have even suffered from pain for more than 20 years.

Most of them were unable to walk but after a 20-minute session, the pain was gone, enabling them to walk. Dr Harlem had been doing this for the past 18 years but more vigorously over the last 10 years.

Treatment can be time-consuming so he can only treat about nine persons over nine hours daily.

To get recognition for his practice, he approached the Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) Unit at Ministry of Health Malaysia but the Ministry has yet to classify this category of medicine.

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Pain therapy without surgery, medication