Who knew sticking your head in a cat carrier could cure addiction? Well actually these strange looking machines are what the Chinese call nanometer wave machines. National Geographic always has the greatest pictures, this one can be found in the May 2008 special edition on China.
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The article unfortunately did not go into any detail of how these devices were supposed to operate but I seriously doubt they are truly effective other than as a placebo. Of course one never knows when the next great cure will come along, but electric and radioactive medical devices have been hawked by charlatans over the last two centuries. In almost all cases, patients were considered lucky if these devices were just ineffectual instead of being dangerous.
Take a gander at the Quack Medicine site where you’ll find the Allied Merke Institute’s thermocap (seen in pic) for baldness and other oddities. Male readers should thank their stars they did not grow up in the Victorian era where they have may have been saddled with a spermatorrhea ring (pg 4). Ouch.
On a more serious note, just the recognition of addiction as a problem is a good first step. Sticking your head into an electrified cat carrier may actually work… as long as the regimen includes a new environment, group meetings, and behavioral training with a competent staff.
