Setting Alight a Patient: Medical Inferno in China

A patient is set alight after the therapist pours alcohol over him, as a treatment of illness, for some in China. 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 effective, a fact that matters little to one of China's most prominent fire therapists. ...

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