The ‘miracle healer’ of the hills
S.S. Chib

Jeet Ram

ONE wouldn’t have believed that ‘miracles’ do happen if one had not been a witness to one of them. It was sheer coincidence that the efficacy of the ‘miracle man’ was tried when a relative was given up by best medical institutions as a terminal case of cancer. A visit to the tiny hamlet turned the situation on its head and the man is now living a full and a healthy life.

Jeet Ram, the ‘miracle man’, was born to Balak Ram, a poor thakur peasant on November 21, 1901, at village Kathla near Chail, then falling in the Patiala State. Now this village falls in Kandaghat tehsil of Solan district of HP. Jeet Ram studied up to class VIII in the then only middle school at Kandaghat. He completed his non-English Vernacular final examination with Urdu, Mathematics, History, Geography and General Science. Later on he learnt Hindi as well as English. The then ruler of Patiala, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh recruited him as a forest guard (darogha) to look after his eight orchards spread over a vast area. Later on, Maharaja Yadivindra Singh decorated him with the rank of a sub inspector.

The ‘miracle man’, treating a patient

He was 20 when some learned and acetic man, finding himself unwell, stayed with Jeet Ram.The latter was asked to procure specific herbs with which the former cured himself. Jeet Ram served the guest so well with devotion and dedication that he offered to impart practical training to Jeet Ram in the field of Ayurvedic medicine. He took Jeet Ram to adjoining as well as far off jungles and trained him to recognise medicinal herbs. He explained to him as to what use their stems, roots, wood, fruit, flower, bark, thorns etc could be put to. He probably was a store house of Ayurvedic knowledge and trained Jeet Ram to cure all ailments including the then dreaded TB, cancer, arthritis, gout, diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis, heart ailments, gangrene etc. He was trained to diagnose initially through the observation of a patient’s first urine of the morning and then by comprehending the malady through interrogation. It took full two years for Jeet Ram, including the tapasya-sadhana of standing in cold waist-deep water for hours till the recitation of the prescribed mantras was completed. He was also trained in analysing ailments by going through the horoscope of the patient. At the age of 22, he started practising the ancient system of medicine. He does not charge money and has even converted is house into a serai where patients can stay free of cost. He has two sons and a daughter.

Jeet Ram is a man of spartan habits. He cooks his own meals and washes his utensils. Even at an age of more than 100 years, he can climb the steepest hill slope with the agility of a mountain goat. On an average, he examines more than a 100 patients every day and stories abound on how he cured thousands of people of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, gynaecological disorders, arthritis, gout, gangrene , mental disorders, skin disorders, barrenness, heart ailments etc. About six months back, a team of five American doctors visited this miracle healer to find out as to how he cures patients of these deadly diseases without the intervention of modern medicines and surgical techniques.