Sunday 6 July 2014

Burn, patient, burn: medical inferno in China

SINO DAILY
Burn, patient, burn: medical inferno in China
Beijing (AFP) July 04, 2014 - A therapist pours alcohol over a patient and sets him alight - for some in China, playing with fire is a treatment for illness. So-called "fire therapy", which proponents claim can cure stress, indigestion, infertility and even cancer, has been used for hundreds of years and recently garnered a blaze of attention in Chinese media. There is no orthodox medical evidence that it is effecti ... more


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