cure from, jadoo, jinn, black magic, spiritual,

The way it supose to work is that an army of good spirits or jinns as the muslims calls them were supose to enter the body of the posesed person and force out the bad jinns or spirits. Wipping the patient goes to show that the exorcist does not have any spiritual powers. To use physical punishment is the same as chasing a way a fly that has landed on somebodys forehead by trying to hit the fly using a baseball bat. You end up harming the inocent person.