Kathmandu: What he is not.

He is basically a physiotherapist with specialization in “Reflexology”. He is a social worker too.

He possesses immense desire to serve those who need his “healing” technique most and that too in the high altitudes.

He is a trekker. He is a sports man who loves to engage himself in adventurous sports.

He is Eric Lon, a French national born long back in Algeria who came to France at the age of 3.

Mr. Lon is currently in Nepal and will be here till May last.

At the moment he is already proceeding towards the Everest base camp where he wishes to serve those mountaineers, trekkers, porters, tourist guides who during the course of their mountaineering activities get injured.

Mr. Lon, at a meeting with this scribe told that his healing technique uses no medicines at all. All that he does is the “massage” of the injured parts and makes the ailing or the sick person perfectly well within no time.

According to Lon, Reflexology deals with special and specific massage of the feet, hands and ears which he claims spreads all round the body of the injured person and acts in a very positive manner.

“I can be very useful to heal various problems such as muscle pains, joint pains and headache”, claims the French physiotherapist.

What is very surprising in this healing method is that is some one has pain in the feet then he or she does not need to throw the socks. “It could be healed without opening the socks”, says Reflexologist Mr. Lon.

The French national does it free. When asked about his mission to Kathmandu, he says that I just wish to serve those who need my treatment and also possesses a strong desire to make pupils so that they later support those who need their support in the country whether it be in the urban areas or in the mountains.

“I don’t need to ask money from the persons who seek my treatment because a three months job in France allows me to work for five months independently. This means that I can support my stay in Nepal for a considerable period of time with my French earnings”, adds Mr. Lon.

He has a desire to share his expertise back in Kathmandu among the medicine practitioners, nurses and the rest who wish to learn this from him.

“Since this treatment does not require the use of medicines, so it is almost free but might be a good earner for the trainees”, says Mr. Lon adding that his technique would benefit the porters in the mountains who more often than not succumb to various sorts of pains.

One 20 year old Nepali boy, Janga Bahadur Shahi from Karnali zone is at the moment is learning this healing technique from Mr. Lon.

Upon his return to Kathmandu from the Everest base camp, Mr. Lon is expected to reveal various programs for Nepal and the Nepalese in close collaboration with the Nepal Mountaineering Association and the Kathmandu based French embassy.