Dr. B.P.S. Chandel jokes that he carries his hospital in his pocket. He’s equipped with his healing stick and 39 years of experience performing Chandel’s Method of Healing.

Chandel, 63, of Blaine, applies the instrument and his thumb and forefinger to points on his clients’ hands and feet to unblock toxins accumulated in their nerves and blood vessels and, ultimately, to heal what ails them.

He’s so confident of his abilities he wrote a letter to Pope John Paul II in May offering to cure his Parkinson’s disease.

He received an award from Mother Theresa in 1995 for setting up clinics and providing free medical service to thousands in his native India.

Chandel, a world-renowned healer, moved to the United States three years ago.

He says he can cure appendicitis in two weeks, asthma in three, sterility in six, impotency in eight and arthritis in 12.

A person may come to him complaining of a pinched nerve, and he may tell them they are also suffering from angina.

“Some special power is there,” he says “I close my eyes, and I feel something.”

He’s certain where the power comes from: “God is supreme,” he says.

Chandel doesn’t claim that he can help everyone, and if he can’t heal an illness, he says it’s his inadequacy, not God’s.

He begins his healing on the hands, rolling and poking his healing stick over points on the palm, the fingers and the tissue between the thumb and forefinger. He does the same on the soles of the feet and the toes.

“It’s laugh or scream, so we do a lot of laughing,” says Carnelia Foster, one of Dr. Chandel’s clients. “But it’s worth it in the long run; if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t go back.”

Foster learned of Dr. Chandel when he gave a free session at Industrial Credit Union, where Foster works as an administrative secretary.

Arthritis causes her debilitating pain in her neck, shoulders, back and legs. She spent 22 years in the navy and is rated 50 percent disabled by the Veterans Administration because of the arthritis.

“It’s gotten to the point where I can’t wear anything with a collar,” she says. “I have difficulty walking and climbing stairs.”

A chiropractor treated her with a form of acupressure and deep tissue massage, which relieved some of her pain, but she was contemplating acupuncture or surgery.

She figured she had nothing to lose by trying the healing offered by Dr. Chandel.

“The difference in one healing was astronomical,” she says.

She says the pain in her neck is nearly gone and she can walk better.

Earlier this month she spent six hours on her feet cooking for an American Legion breakfast, a feat she couldn’t have imagined a few months ago.

“It’s slowly but surely getting better,” she says.

Foster has an answer for skeptics.

“I’m probably as indoctrinated as anyone by traditional medicine, being ex-military, and as big a skeptic as anyone when it comes to non-invasive techniques,” she says. “This works. I cannot stress strongly enough: It works. I don’t know how it works for other things, but for me it works.”

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