A self-professed alternative healer has been charged in connection with the death of a UK grandmother at a ‘slapping therapy’ workshop several years ago.
Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, was found dead in her room at Cleeve House, Wiltshire on Oct. 20, 2016, where she was participating in a workshop on paida lajin therapy in the hopes of finding an alternative treatment for her Type 1 diabetes, the Telegraph reported.
Paida lajin is a holistic Chinese method in which patients are slapped or slap themselves repeatedly in order to supposedly draw out blood toxins, or “sha,” the outlet explained.
The session was run by Hongchi Xiao, 60, the founder of the Pailala Institute and author of “Heal Yourself Naturally Now,” which discusses the benefits of paida lajin as a method for increasing circulation and drawing out blood toxins, the outlet explained.
Xiao, of Cloudbreak, California, was arrested on Thursday when he returned to the UK from Australia via extradition warrant, and was charged with manslaughter by gross negligence related to Carr-Gromm’s death, the Wiltshire Police announced.
He will appear before the Salisbury Magistrates’ Court on Friday, the force confirmed.
The Pailala Institute – which boasts that its mission is to “transform our world into a healthier place” – did not respond to The Post’s request for a comment on Xiao’s arrest.
Carr-Gromm was always trying to find alternative methods for treating her diabetes because she struggled to inject insulin due to a fear of needles, her son, Matthew, told the Telegraph.
“She was always keen to find alternative methods of treating and dealing with her diabetes and was very interested in alternative and holistic medicine and therapies,” Matthew, who lives in New Zealand, explained.
“I know she was desperate to try and cure herself of this disease. She always maintained a healthy lifestyle and was adamant that nothing would stop her from living a full life.”
Carr-Gromm documented her decision to attend the $951 course on a blog, in which she mentioned that the week-long October workshop was the second by Xiao that she would attend that year, the Telegraph reported shortly after her death.
The first session, which took place in Bulgaria, resulted in “large areas of my body were bruised blue which indicated that a lot of ‘sha’ or poisoned blood and toxins had been released,” the septuagenarian wrote in one post, the outlet said.
Carr-Gromm also underwent “lajin,” of forcible stretnching on a hard bench, which she recalled “felt like agony and eternity.”
Shortly before her death, Carr-Gromm told readers that she stopped injecting her insulin for two days, only to resume when her blood sugar levels became “sky high.”
“My hope is that a second and perhaps third group workshop will help me to heal completely,” she wrote.
At the time of Carr-Gromm’s death, Matthew referred to his mother as “victim of false hope.”
“I am certain that if she hadn’t gone on this course, she would still be alive today,” he lamented to the Telegraph.
Before Carr-Gromm died, Xiao had also been questioned by authorities in Australia over the death of a seven-year-old diabetic boy in Sydney, the outlet noted.
The slapping method has been frequently criticized for having no scientific basis – despite Xiao claiming that it can treat everything from body pains and cancer to Alzheimer’s and paralysis, the BBC said.
“Paida Lajin is extremely dangerous. We urge people not to take part in this unsafe practice,” Martin Ledwick, the head information nurse at Cancer Research UK, told the Telegraph in 2019.
“It couldn’t be more worrying to see that it is being advertised in place of seeing a doctor, and its claims about cancer bear no relation to any scientific facts,” he cautioned.
Seven years later, Matthew Carr-Gromm regretted that his mother had missed out on so much.
“In recent years, Mum was in a great place with a partner, a lovely home, and was traveling the world. She had a lot of life left in her,” he told the Telegraph.
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