Alternative healing is big business in Switzerland and you don’t have to go far to find paranormal practitioners treating patients. Swiss TV wanted to test their skills in a series of experiments overseen by scientists.
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The consumer programme, “Kassensturz” examined a number of different types of healers. Swissinfo focused on three of the tests. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
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Prayer healing still engrained in Swiss culture
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Olivier Pochon, who lives in canton Fribourg, says he went to a hospital in canton Valais several years ago with a severe second-degree burn on his leg. The burn was painful, and the nurse at the hospital gave his father the phone number of a prayer healer who she said could help ease the pain…
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