Acupuncture Courses

Dr. Raman Kapur is a renowned Medical Acupuncturist, widely recognized for developing the practice of scientific Acupuncture in India and curing many patients suffering from intractable diseases. He is the recipient of the first “PADMA SHRI” in Medical Acupuncture awarded by the Hon’ble President of India Smt. Pratibha Patil, on 5th May, 2008.

Born on 12th January 1957, Dr. Kapur graduated in Medical from Delhi University, He received training in Acupuncture in China, Sri Lanka and Australia. He started practice in 1982. During his paindist 26 years of clinical practice of Acupuncture, he has achieved excellent curative results in the treatment of conditions like spondylitis, backaches, arthritis, asthma, skin diseases, gynae disorders, eye diseases including optic nerve atrophy and retinal degeneration, cigarette de-addiction, migraine, irritable bowel syndrome, facial paralysis etc.

Dr. Kapur is the President of Indian Society of Medical Acupuncture. He is also the Chairperson of the Department of Acupuncture at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. He is also the Chairman of Institute of Acupuncture and Natural Medicines, where he conducts regular courses on Acupuncture for doctors. These courses are being conducted jointly with the Beijing College of Acupuncture. He is also the Hon. Acupuncturist to Wangjing Hospital , Beijing. Dr. Kapur has been the chairman of three International Conferences on Acupuncture in New Delhi.

Dr. Kapur has written three books on Acupuncture, entitled’ A Guide to Acupuncture and Tissue Cleansing System’, ‘ Soft Lasers in Medical Practice’, and ‘ Acupuncture – Cure for Common Diseases’. The first two books were released by Hon’ble Ex. President of India, Dr. S.D.Sharma and the third book was released by Smt. Sonia Gandhi. Recently the Hindi Edition of the book “Acupuncutre- Cure for Common Diseases” was released by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi, Smt. Sheila Dixit on 12th February, 2010

Dr. Kapur was awarded Gold Medal in 1992 for best paper presentation on ‘Role of Acupuncture in Treatment of Obesity’ at Taiwan. He is recipient of ‘ Ratan Shiromani Award-1994’. He is also recipient of ‘Hakim Ajmal Khan Global Award’ for the Best Acupuncture Specialist for the year 2007.

Dr. Kapur has also had the honour of treating First Lady of India, Smt. Vimla Sharma and Past President Dr. K.R.Narayanan and his wife Mrs. Usha Narayanan.

His latest publication was in the “INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ACUPUNCTURE Vol. I 1999 on the ROLE OF ACUPUNCTURE IN THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY published from New York.

He is being ably assisted by his wife, Dr. Sunita Kapur who also practices acupuncture alongwith him. Dr. Kapur’s interviews on Acupuncture have appeared in All National Dailies and also in New Magazines and Doordarshan.

In view of the growing demand amongst doctors for learning acupuncture, he alongwith his wife Dr. Sunita Kapur have developed an online course on Acupuncture and this course is now conducted in collaboration with the INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY from October, 2008. This is a one year Post graduate diploma in Acupuncture (PGDACP).