“I take care of those unfortunate sufferers who, thanks only to Tibetan medicine, receive and should receive in the future the beauty of life - health. Personally, a representative of this science, I do not need anything. Having the property of Tibetan medicine as a tool, working tirelessly all my life for the benefit of the sick, I am quite satisfied. - P. A. Badmaev.
Little is known about Petr Aleksandrovich Badmaev. In the first years of Soviet power, the works, and the very name of this man, were banned, his followers, doctors and orientalists were repressed. That is why today many people remember P. Badmaev only from the film “Agony” directed by Elem Klimov, where his image is very distorted. The famous doctor and outstanding diagnostician is shown in the film as an insidious Mongol weaving palace intrigues.
Petr Aleksandrovich, in childhood his name was Zhamsaran, was born in Transbaikalia in about 1851. However, this date requires clarification. He was the seventh and youngest son of Zasogol Batma, a wealthy Mongolian cattle breeder who descended from Dobo Mergen, Genghis Khan's father. The family lived in a six-walled yurt and roamed the dry Aginskaya steppe. As a boy, Zhamsaran tended sheep and was very proud that he was doing an honorable and necessary job.
But the Batma family was known in Transbaikalia thanks not only to a distant noble ancestor, but also to the merits of Batma's eldest son. Sultim (Alexander Alexandrovich Badmaev) was an Emchi lama, that is, a doctor of Tibetan medicine.
In those years, a typhoid epidemic broke out near Chita. There were no official medical remedies for the fight against this terrible disease. “Bony with a scythe” took hundreds of people to her monastery every day. The epidemic could become a real threat to the whole of Russia. Panic broke out among the population.
And here someone recommended Count N. G. Muravyov-Amursky to find the medicine man Sultim Badmaev and turn to him for help. From childhood, he studied the medical science of Tibet, successfully healed people and livestock from all diseases, therefore he enjoyed great respect and fame in Transbaikalia.
Sultim was soon found. He agreed to help and in 20 days eliminated the terrible disease by distributing packets of some kind of powder to people.
On the recommendation of Count N. N. Muravyev-Amursky, the healer was invited to Petersburg, where he was introduced to Alexander II. Here he was christened and named Alexander Alexandrovich. The monarch commanded: "I will reward everything that you wish." He thought that the Buryats would ask for money or an order. But Sultim wanted to have a hospital where he could use the sick according to his own method, and the uniform of a military doctor.
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The request was so extraordinary that it amazed many of the tsar's entourage. But the sovereign did not deviate from his word and ordered: "Let him show what he can."
In the Nikolaev hospital, Sultima was taken to the ward. In it were placed seriously ill with syphilis (all in the last stage), tuberculosis and cancer. The treatment was scrupulously monitored by certified Aesculapians. And again a real miracle happened - all the suffering ones recovered!
Tibetan medicines.
Badmaev was awarded a rank with the right to wear a military uniform and to use the rights assigned to military doctors by the medical department of the military ministry. In addition, he was allowed to receive patients at home and open a pharmacy for oriental medicines.
But Alexander Badmaev needed an assistant like air, and he asks his parents to let his younger brother go to Petersburg. By that time, Zhamsaran had already graduated from the Irkutsk Russian classical gymnasium with a gold medal. The parents took the young man to the capital.
Once in the city of Peter, the young man immediately entered the Faculty of Oriental Languages of St. Petersburg University and, as a volunteer with the right to take exams, began to attend lectures at the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy.
After completing his studies, Petr Badmaev enters the service in the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. By that time, he had already converted to Orthodoxy, taking the name Peter in honor of Peter the Great, and the patronymic after the name of the heir-Tsarevich, the future Tsar Alexander III.
But quite soon Alexander Badmaev dies, and his entire household - a pharmacy and practice - goes to his younger brother, Zhamsaran.
In the 1870s, Petr Alexandrovich, by occupation, repeatedly visited China, Mongolia, Tibet, where he carried out various assignments related to strengthening Russia's sphere of influence in this region. In addition, in Tibet, he also improved his knowledge of Tibetan medicine from his brother.
Petr Badmaev was engaged in treatment from 1875 until the end of his life.
In 1893, he received the rank of general as an actual state councilor, and a year after the death of Alexander III he retired and devoted himself entirely to Tibetan medicine.
From 1837 to 1910, Petr Badmaev worked alone. For 37 years, he received 573,856 patients in his office, which is confirmed by documents. The figure in itself is incredible - more than 16 thousand patients a year. Until his death, the Tibetan doctor worked without days off, holidays and vacations. His work day lasted 16 hours, but was structured very intelligently. The doctor developed the habit of falling asleep for 7-10 minutes after 3-4 hours of work. Perhaps this is where his exceptional performance lies.
By the way, out of more than half a million patients cured by P. Badmaev, more than one hundred thousand (according to documents) were recognized by other doctors as hopeless.
The Tibetan doctor used the pulse to make the diagnosis. The procedure usually took about a minute. Then the patient received a coupon with the number of powders, which he bought from a pharmacy in the same building. In total, 8,140,276 powders were given to the patients who came to Badmaev's and sold at the pharmacy. For a visit, the worker paid one ruble, the wealthy gentlemen - up to 25 rubles in gold.
Among esotericists, difficult to verify information is spread that Badmaev was allegedly a member of the Tibetan mystical society "Green Dragon". In the absence of any official documentation in the secret organizations, any arguments "for" or "against" this statement are unfounded.
Pulse diagnostics technique
The healer received information about the patient's condition by placing the fingertips on the patient's radial artery. It should be noted that mastering pulse diagnosis is a daunting task.
They began to teach this craft from the age of 4, but only in adulthood did the healer acquire the necessary skills and was able to pick up many shades of vibration of the blood flow, which could be cold, warm, hot; weak, medium, strong; flat, round, square or helical; rhythmic, erratic, with a broken rhythm with a repetitive melody; calm, cutting or stabbing - only a few hundred shades.
In addition, pauses between heartbeats, that is, between pulse beats, were also "speaking". The whole gamut of observations provided a complete picture of the state of the human body.
Thus, healers of the distant past established that blood is a bank and a transmitter of information that was reliably stored on a moving liquid carrier. There is no mysticism in pulse diagnostics. It is just a union of the supersensory perception of the fingers and the doctor's brain. By the way, a modern doctor working in a polyclinic examines the pulse only by five indicators: frequency, rhythm, content, tension, speed.
There were other diagnostic techniques used by Tibetan healers in conjunction with pulse diagnostics. Their results seem incredible.
If a classical healer is able to detect, for example, a prostate tumor only after a more or less prolonged examination, then a Tibetan doctor can predict its appearance in 1-2 years. This is how he prevents illness with his medicines and prescriptions.
By the way, in the book "Peter Badmaev, godson of the emperor, healer, diplomat" the grandson of the great doctor Boris Gusev describes how his grandfather diagnosed Nicholas II by pulse:
“They say your science is full of mystery, is that right? the emperor asked.
- She was surrounded by mystery by those who wanted to hide her from people …
- Do you believe in predictions?
- The disease can be predicted. There is an assumption …
- And fate?
“I don’t know how, Your Majesty.
“Then predict what I'll get sick and when,” the emperor said, smiling again.
- I will ask Your Majesty's hand … No, not a palm, I need a pulse.
Feeling the pulse on Nikolai's hand, the grandfather listened to his beating for a long time, about two minutes. Then he said:
- So far, I do not see any symptoms of the disease or signs that precede it. You have a healthy pulse. You probably do a lot of physical work outdoors?
- Right! I saw firewood. At least two hours a day. I love!"
Writer Boris Gusev (right) is the grandson of the famous doctor, founder of Tibetan medicine in Russia, Pyotr Badmaev.
In addition to his main work as a practitioner, P. Badmaev devoted a lot of time and effort to translating into Russian the book "Zhud-Shi" (the basics of medical science in Tibet). Immediately after publication, it attracted widespread interest. However, there were many critical remarks from the official medicine, and Badmaev was subjected to real persecution, accusing him of shamanism, quackery and other sins. But the most terrible tests awaited the doctor ahead.
In 1917, he was expelled from Russia by the Provisional Government, but was detained in Helsingfors (now Helsinki) and, after a month's imprisonment, returned to Petrograd. He again began to practice medicine, but was arrested several more times by the Cheka.
In 1919, while being imprisoned in the Chesme camp (in Petrograd, 5 km from the Narva Gate), P. Badmaev slapped the commandant in the face for being rude to him, “you”. The chief, of course, immediately assigned the doctor to the punishment cell for two days, where he stood ankle-deep in ice water.
And then misfortune happened: a Tibetan healer, in excellent health, fell ill with typhus. He was placed in the prison infirmary, where he was looked after by the wife of EF Yuzbashev. For many years this woman was a faithful assistant and even managed a pharmacy in the estate of P. Badmaev on Poklonnaya Hill. But, despite a serious illness that required care, faithful to his medical duty, the doctor persuaded his spouse to stay at 16 Liteiny, where P. Badmaev's reception was located.
Badmaev with his students.
In general, Petr Badmaev could easily avoid all the misfortunes that happened to him if he accepted Japanese citizenship. The doctor received an official notification from the authorities that he could do this - the Japanese ambassador petitioned for him. He could freely travel with his family to Japan. But Peter Alexandrovich did not want to leave Russia in a difficult hour of testing and categorically rejected the tempting offer.
The famous Tibetan doctor died on July 29, 1920 in his bed. They buried him on a hot day on August 1 at the Shuvalov cemetery. Now on his grave there is a white metal cross with the inscription: “Physician - the founder of Tibetan medicine in Russia, Peter Alexandrovich Badmaev. Died on 29. VII. 1920.
No date of birth. The grave, judging by its condition, has not been visited for a long time. Neither the cemetery administration nor the parishioners know anything about her. Such is the sad fate of a famous person.
After the revolution, PA Badmaev's work "Zhud-Shi" was not published and was re-published only in 1991.
From the book "Phenomena, Secrets, Hypotheses"