Hongchi Xiao is a healer considered a guru, originally from China, who devoted himself to traveling countries to talk about healing. Seven years after the death of a woman, he is confronted with justice. The victim died in the middle of one therapy based on receiving blows.

The events date back to 2016 and the son of Danielle Carr-Gomm, as the 71-year-old woman was called, indicated that his mother was looking for alternatives to get rid of diabetes.

He did not want to take any more insulin injections because he could not control his phobia of needles, Antena 3 published.

This is how he came to a therapy workshop ‘Paida & Lajin’, where someone slaps a person or two people slap each other.

It was the healer who “conducted several alternative healing sessions under the pseudonym of Master Xiao,” it is alleged.

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On trial

Xiao, charged with manslaughter due to gross negligence, appeared in court on Friday, December 1, 2023.

The aforementioned Spanish media pointed out that “the information from the trial has confirmed that the workshop was based on a form of marginal therapy that involves hitting yourself or being hit repeatedly.”

Some believe that with these blows you can “eliminate toxins and reap health benefits.”

Danielle Carr-Gomm was found dead in her room at Cleeve House, described as a country hotel in Wiltshire, England, on October 20, 2016, according to the New York Post.

What those who follow these therapies may not be aware is that “patients usually leave sessions with bruising and bleeding,” Antena 3 reported.

Paida & Lajin is extremely dangerous. We urge people not to engage in this unsafe practice.

Martin Ledwick, chief nursing officer, quoted in the media

According to Big Apple media, Xiao was arrested on Thursday while returning to Britain from Australia.

An extradition warrant was pending against him, Wiltshire Police announced on December 1.

“Mr. Xiao is a naturopath and founder of the Pailala Institute in California and has written Heal Yourself Naturally Now, in which he explores the benefits of paya lajin. “He has led workshops on this practice around the world,” the Telegraph published.

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“My mother tried to heal herself”

The 2016 workshop was the second of that year, and the victim attended along with Xiao. It took a week. The first session was in Bulgaria.

According to the New York Post, citing the Telegraph, the septuagenarian “documented her decision to take the course in a blog.

Apparently, ‘before Carr-Gromm’s death’, medicine man Xiao had also been questioned by Australian authorities about the death of a diabetic child. seven years old in Sydney,” the New York Post reported.

The victim’s son Matthew said: “I know she was desperately trying to cure herself of this disease (diabetes). “She has always led a healthy lifestyle and was convinced that nothing would stop her from living a full life.”

“She still had a whole life to live,” lamented her son, who said his mother “had a partner, a beautiful house and traveled the world.”

Sleep wasn’t the only thing the therapy dealt with. It involved some stretching exercises and the septuagenarian had to do one ‘forced onto a hard bench’ and the press reported that she described it as ‘pain and an eternity’. (JO)