PBS - Scientific American Frontiers | A Different Way to Heal? (original) (raw)
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A Day with Wally Sampson A retired doctor shows Alan what herb shops are really selling.
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Herbal Hope Was PC-SPES an herbal cancer cure, or a prescription drug in sheep's clothing?
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Adjusting the Joints A one-time chiropractor challenges the claims of his former colleagues.
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Needles and Nerves Studies find acupuncture can reduce blood pressure, but how?
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Healing Touch Therapeutic Touch is the subject of serious medical studies, but its practitioners proved unable to detect the 'energy field' that it depends on.
Cold Comfort Some cold remedies may be all in your head.
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Mr. Cele's Garden Africa�s traditional healers depend on supplies gathered in rapidly-disappearing wild areas. One healer is starting to cultivate his remedies.
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Wisdom of Li Shizhen China�s ancient systems of medical diagnosis and treatment are still widespread. Drug companies are now analyzing traditional herbal remedies.
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Water, Water Everywhere Frontiers challenges one dowser to a scientifically controlled trial, while two others direct a search for water -- but all three come up empty-handed.
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Aliens Have Landed Some believe a spaceship landed in Roswell, New Mexico, but Frontiers finds a much simpler explanation -- balloons used to spy on the Russian atomic tests.
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New Energy Age Zero Point Energy could supply the globe�s energy needs forever, if it exists. Groups of enthusiasts are searching for it very carefully.
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Paper Personality Graphologists say your handwriting reveals who you are, but scientific studies have never been able to back up the claim.
