After Mr. Lal Singh Kang cured himself with the use of massage by rods, he thought of making the suffering humanity also to avail of his new technique.
To make it more acceptable, convenient and effective, he devised a new type of wooden bed, with rotating rods fixed at its bed portion, for patients to lie on and make movements easily forwards and backwards and side-ways.
Hundreds of patients have gone to him and availed of this technique in the cure of their multiple diseases. Shri Singh has even supplied these cots on nominal cost to those who could not make it by themselves at home.
The cot is a simple, robust wooden bed, but of miraculous results. It has not only cured patients of bodily pains, like deadly arthritis, etc., but also blood pressure, diabetes, urine and heart troubles.
The bed is 6 feet by 3 feet, usually as beds are. Its bed surface is bit raised in the centre, the whole of which is made of rotating rods. The rods are 3 feet long each 1″ x 1.5″. There are three fixed rods at the ends. The rest are rotating rods.
The central rotating rod is 1.5″ higher than the end rods and there is a gradual slope to both the sides. As the waist is usually a bit deep inside, as compared to the buttocks and upper portion of the back, so the central portion has been kept higher than the end portions of the cot.
In addition to these, there are two more rotating rods in the vertically upward extended legs of the cot. These are for massaging the legs, the arms and the thighs and also the chest and the sides and the back of the torso. The shoulders, head and neck can also be massaged on these rods.
Mr. Lal Singh Kang has founded a trust in the name of Shrimati Tej Kaur, which now runs this institute. There are about half a dozen rooms, with beds in them. Some attendants are there who are trained in this art of Rod-therapy and who attend to the patients.
During the past two decades of research on patients receiving help at the institute, not only have they got cured, but they have also established the efficacy of this therapy.
We have already described how nerves spread out from different digits of the spinal cord and a host of ailments is caused by deterioration of nerves respectively from each part.
By regular and scientific massage of the parts of the body and the spinal cord, and by taking different positions on the bed of rods, almost all diseases reported there have been cured. A few instances are quoted to demonstrate the efficacy of the Rod-therapy treatment.