I have just recieved this email about the new Alternative Medicine series on BBC2, Tuesdays. I was out and did not see last night’s episode. Here is information from David Waytes, Jubiliee College.
I’ve just been watching BBC2’s program on Alternative Medicines – they are
doing next weeks program on Reflexology. You can view it on BBC2 at 9.00pm
next Monday.
If you want to read about the program before it is aired, there is
information at http://www.open2.net/alternativetherapies/reflexology.html .
The episode this week was on Hypnotherapy and was very well balanced. I just
hope that next weeks is presented just as well.
This the information from the Open2/BBC site. (see above link to read more)
Kathy Sykes, Professor of Sciences and Society at the University of Bristol, explores three of the most popular and fastest growing alternative therapies; reflexology, hypnotherapy and meditation.
These films are part scientific investigation, part personal journey, as Kathy sets out to look not just at the scientific evidence for each therapy, but also to meet practitioners and mainstream scientists who are studying the therapies. Kathy asks more than just "do these therapies work, and if so how?" – she also seeks to find out why people use them, why they are so popular, and what lessons, if any, they might hold for conventional medicine.
This journey takes her across the globe – from a monastery in Nepal, through a ward for cancer patients in Hull, to a Los Angeles party where everyone has to cuddle everyone else. She meets a group of meditators who are trying to levitate, but who are also conducting serious research into how meditation might help your heart. She also finds out about the lady in Sheffield who claims that her ability to rub people’s feet has helped over 100 babies being born.