BSG Ankola

Vaidya Bommu Shivu Gouda, Belambar, Ankola [ Ayurvedic and Oil Massage Treatment for any type of Paralysis ]

Vaidya Bommu Shivu Gouda is a well known Ayruvedic oil massage for paralysis.

Vaidya Bommu Shivu Gauda’s story is worth listening. Two hundred years ago, his ancestor was sitting in his freshly harvested paddy field when a sanyasi suddenly appeared before him and asked him for a medicine for his ailments. You are mistaken, replied the humble peasant. I know of no medicine for any ailment. But the sanyasi insisted andurged him to follow him into the forest. Once there, he introduce him to rare roots, barks, herbs, resins, spices, pods and seeds. And he put them together in the famous Belambar magic oil for paralysis and rheumatic pains. Shivu Bommu Gauda says his great-grandson, the present dispenser of the magic oil, treated and cured Mahatma Gandhi when he went to Ankola, five kilometers from Belambar, for the second Salt Satyagraha in 1927. The greatful co-villagers erected an idol like memorial for the Vaidya and it is held in great reference even today.