Before yesterday I found in my library a real treasure: a collection of old magazines that belonged to my mother; leafing through the contents of some of them, I have discovered that my mother used to read about natural medicine issues, even though she herself was not a doctor. I found several articles and clippings of Dr. Florencio Escardó (1904-1992), the most important pediatrician in my country, and I was struck by his writing that I consider timeless because it is a subject always in force: the soothing virtues of mom's hands.
Dr. Escardó describes a fairly common situation for those of us who have children: the child runs, stumbles and falls, receiving a tremendous blow against the angle of a piece of furniture: “… it is notorious that it really hurts and breaks into tears; the mother raises it and putting her bare hand on the stripped area also naked, makes small soft rubs or is limited to the quiet application of the palm, while saying with a tone between monotonous and harmonious: healthy, healthy, frog tail; if he doesn't heal today, he'll heal tomorrow" The child calms down little by little, his crying and his complaint are appeased and, finally, after standing still for a moment, he runs again as if nothing had happened.
That is, the "holy hand" of the mother, by providing contact, conveys calm, security and effective sedation. What in ordinary language we call "holy hand" (or healer), that is, someone whom official medicine and even the law qualifies as a trickster, the Hindus call him a cure through prana and Tikitans reiki. They are nothing but talents, energy condensing people from our immediate surrounding world, regularly effective in relieving the suffering site with a warm application of the hands.
What do you say? Do your hands have the power to relieve your children?
