Woman cures terminal diseases by… shaking hands

A woman in Vinh Phuc province in northern Vietnam is said to be able to cure incurable diseases by a very simple method.
The woman is Pham Thi Chanh in Vien Du village, Thanh Van commune, Tam Duong District, Vinh Phuc province.




Hundreds of patients from northern provinces have flocked to Chanh’s house in recent months to be cured. All of them suffer from incurable diseases, including cancer.
The woman treats her patients by a very simple method: After holding their hands for 30 second, she gives them some herbs. Taking the herbs, their diseases will disappear.

A hundred of other people told Dan Tri that they were cured by Mrs. Chanh. Rumor spread and more and more patients are flocking to Mrs. Chanh’s home.
Notably, the woman treats patients nearly for free. She only collects VND1500 ($0.075) for the herbs. Many patients said that she even gave back traveling expenses to poor patients.

Chanh told Dan Tri: “Shaking hands with patients and giving them herbs is just for fun. But these things help them recover from diseases”.






Mr. Nguyen Nhu Vinh, also from Vinh Phuc, told Dan Tri while holding a small boy that the boy was diagnosed with a tumor on his left eye when he was nine months old. The family took the boy to three hospitals in Hanoi. All doctors said that the tumor is malignant and they couldn’t help. After half of a month in a hospital, the boy couldn’t open his eyes.

Patient Phung Thi Thuy

At Chanh’s house, on December 8, a patient named Phung Thi Thuy, 32, from Vinh Phuc province, who has a giant arm, told Dan Tri newspaper about her case.
Thuy said since early 2010, her left arm has been gradually getting bigger and bigger. Doctors said that she contracted bone cancer which cannot be cured..

As the rumor about Mrs. Chanh’s odd ability was spread, local officials met with her for investigation on December 6. However, hundreds of people flocked to the local government office and claimed themselves as patients of hopeless diseases who were cured by Mrs. Chanh. They protested the local government’s ban of the woman’spractice.

Nguyen Cong Luong, Chairman of Thanh Van commune, said that the local government is very confused in this case.