Energy therapy and Magnetic healing

[rcabls]

My grandmother's friend rolled into town today and brought with her some interesting toys. My grandmother has bad arthritis and very sore knees. Like most seniors like her, she lives in pain and looks for cures to her ailments.

Her friend brought magnet pads and an "energy machine" to help heal her legs. The friend claimed that it did work on her knees. Let me give you a quick run down on the machine and what it does. Although I haven't fully inspected its functions at this time, I did give it a shot.

The machine was put on a setting to relieve knee pain and arthritis. There are two metal rods that you hold in your hands and they are connected by wires to the unit. When it iss started, voltage passes through one hand and out the other. You use a person to complete the circuit. I remember doing stuff like this in my Physics classes. Somehow this "heals" your body, which i don't understand. I could believe that after the session you would be numb and therefore not feel the pain, but this would be temporary until the next treatment.

The buying price for my grandmother's friend: $2,000. I told her I could have built her the same machine with $15 worth of stuff at Radio Shack. She replied "Honey, you don't understand the pain us old people live through because you are young. We will pay anything or try anything to get rid of our pain"

My only response was that there are legitimate doctors and physicians who study these things and research to find cures. But people who give you false hope and con old people into paying outrageous prices for miracle cures, well that is just plain wrong. I think it is criminal.

She is still in town and if there are any experiments I could perform, please let me know. She also has magnetic pads for her back that I have no idea what they do. Let me know what yuou guys think.

 

[Ed]

Check out Quackwatch. The magnetic stuff has been debunked like forever.

Holding rods with some sort of current sounds like it might (might) be dangerous. Can you open the box that they are connected to up? I'd be curious to know what is inside.

You might call the fraud division of your friendly state police. That other geezer could probably get his money back on the heals of a visit from the coppers.

Tell your grandma that she is old and has no idea how people will take advantage of those people who are in pain.

You can tell her from me that whoever sold that box to her friend should be hung from a lamppost by his own scrotum.

 

[pupdog]

rcabls--
I don't think your grandmother can be convinced by any amount of scientific testing or debunking. People in chronic pain can be desperate. I think you ought to explain to her friend the great disservice she is doing, why she is wrong, and why she ought to be very ashamed of herself. if she persists, offer to cure her headaches using a modification of the "Kinetic Energy" healing method employed by Ernest Angley--smack her in the head, but use a 2x4!

 

[Iamme]

rcabls---Just send your gramma through an MRI machine. Ya..THAT'S the ticket. That outta do it. These things are probably one of the world's strongest magnetic forces. They have caused fire extinguishers to fly across rooms into MRI machines, killing the person inside.

 

[popsy]

I tried magnetic insoles that were supposed to stop the pain I have in my feet. The design of them caused so much discomfort I never could wear them long enough to find out if they worked. I'm sure they would have done away with the pain if only it hadn't hurt so much to wear them.

 

[pupdog]

For popsy--

I think those were the magnetic insoles for toothaches. For foot pain, you need a magnetic hat that hurts so much you forget the pain in your feet.

 

[CFLarsen]

rcabls,

Here's how you might be able to convince your grandmother that she has been scammed:

For ten consecutive days (or as many as time allows), have her try out the machine. She must record how she feels before and after. In writing, and after each session (or how long it takes her to "feel better").

Here is the catch: You must be allowed to control the machine. You tell her that half the times, the machine will work. The other half, no current will go through her (disconnect a wire or something). Stand behind her, so she cannot know when you disconnect the wires. She should be able to tell which is which, right?

Here is the trick: At no time should you make the machine send current through her body. All the times, the wire is disconnected.

Here is how she will react: Exactly half the times, she will claim she felt better.

When she discovers that she has been fooled, she will - at first - be angry with you. Nobody likes to be made a fool of. But she will - hopefully - see that she was wrong. Then, go with her, back to the friend who sold the machine to her and demand that she gets all her money back.

 

[popsy]

For popsy--

I think those were the magnetic insoles for toothaches. For foot pain, you need a magnetic hat that hurts so much you forget the pain in your feet.

Thanks for the laugh!

 

[Rolfe]

Here is the trick: At no time should you make the machine send current through her body. All the times, the wire is disconnected.

That is actually a VERY good idea. Have a coconut.

Rolfe.