Rumored to cure everything from paralysis to high-blood pressure
(AP) - Ignoring the red-and-white danger sign, Sri Mulyati walks slowly to the train tracks outside Indonesia's bustling capital, lies down, and stretches her body across the rails. Like the nearly dozen others lined up along the track, the 50-year-old diabetes patient has given up on doctors and can't afford expensive medicines. It's not a suicide attempt, but rather a pseudo-medical electric shock treatment from the current running through the rails. She began the dangerous treatment after hearing of an ethnic Chinese man who was partially paralyzed by a stroke. He went to the tracks to kill himself; instead, he found himself cured. More»
