Bangli, Peace and Harmony

I Wayan Sintang’s Clinic
Traditional Masseur that Heals Pains on the Waistline

Modern healing system for patient suffering from pains on the waist or irritation on the body joints will be given painkiller medicine or other chemical tablets. However, it is different from traditional healing that has been inherited for generations in Bali.

Pains on the waist or irritation on the joints can be overcome by drinking loloh (drink of herbal extract) of which ingredients are particularly simple and easy to get namely galangal (Alpinia galanga stuntz), mature betel leaf (Piper betle L) and piduh leaf (Centela asiatida (L) Urb). All ingredients are finely grounded and then pressed to get their extract then mixed with few drops of limejuice and a sufficient amount of fresh or warm water. “For those who will make distant travel by motorbike or car or sitting behind the desk for hours, this herbal extract can be drunk regularly to relieve and prevent pains or irritation,” said Wayan Sintang (73), of Selati Buntin Hamlet, Bangli who in his day-to-day’s life has a profession as ‘balian apun’ or masseur.
This aged grandfather has been deeply involved in his profession as masseur for more than 40 years. Originally, he felt concerned that many people suffer from bone disorders like rheumatism. For that reason, he suggests them to remain preserving bone health by regular light exercise like jogging in the morning. It would be healthier if the jogging were carried out at rice field or hill area of which nature is still pristine and natural as in the vicinity of Bukit Jati tourist object that is not far from his home.
As masseur, he often helps patients of bone fracture or sprained joints due to slip. Sintang also knows best about bone illnesses, ranging from severe to light bone fracture or those who have trouble with light pains he can heal. Not surprisingly, if in his age that is getting older he stays energetic and delivers a helping hand sincerely to every patient who comes to his house.
For Sintang, whatever the bone fracture is, starting from fracture to sprained joint, muscle disorder and so forth at all times gets appropriate treatment. He never rejects the incoming patients.
For patients in severe condition, he applies a plaster cast that made of two drinking bottles containing warm water then tightened between the broken limbs of the patient. Those bottles continue to be filled with warm water and gradually his patient showed progress and he ultimately got recovered as ever before. Sintang also utilizes (original) coconut oil for massaging his patients. (BTN/Suka)