Unorthodox "Cures"

[Madalch]

The CBC has a bit on "Unorthodox Cures" at http://www.cbc.ca/photogallery/technology/3743/

The usual silly stuff, but doesn't include homeopathy. The most amusing bit is the boy who caught a stone that fell from the sky after a lightning strike- the stone is obviously magical (rather than having simply been tossed into the air by the strike). Some of the comments ought to be Pharyngulated.

 

[kerikiwi]

#18 is not a cow, it's a bull. The treatment clearly will have the opposite effect from what they are hoping for.
#1 with the fish is believable. Leeches and maggots also have legitimate medical uses.

 

[Earthborn]

#7 obviously works by oils they give off through their skins.