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  • 2011-11-07T22:00:00Z on National Geographic
  • 45m
  • 3h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Document some of the world's most ancient and extreme medical practices, from the snake-soup healer in Hong Kong to the chicken-massaging witch doctors in the African country of Cameroon. Gibbon is joined by volunteer patients who are seeking cures to their own ailments, something Western medicine has failed to achieve.

4 episodes

Series Premiere

2011-11-07T22:00:00Z

1x01 Snake Blood Remedy

Series Premiere

1x01 Snake Blood Remedy

  • 2011-11-07T22:00:00Z45m

Piers Gibbon takes volunteer patients to Hong Kong in a bid to uncover the science behind traditional Chinese medicine and determine if these remedies can succeed where Western medicine has failed.

2011-11-08T22:00:00Z

1x02 Cow Urine Cure

1x02 Cow Urine Cure

  • 2011-11-08T22:00:00Z45m

Could traditional Indian healing cure ailments like migraines, tinnitus and eczema that Western medicine can’t?

2011-11-09T22:00:00Z

1x03 Goat Blood Bath

1x03 Goat Blood Bath

  • 2011-11-09T22:00:00Z45m

Piers takes volunteer patients to the African country of Cameroon to find out if extreme treatments from traditional medicine hold the cure to their medical issues.

Season Finale

2011-11-10T22:00:00Z

1x04 Hallucinogenic Healing

Season Finale

1x04 Hallucinogenic Healing

  • 2011-11-10T22:00:00Z45m

Piers Gibbon and two volunteer patients test a range of unusual remedies sourced from the Peruvian jungle in a bid to use shamanic medicine to cure ailments they’ve struggled to fix at home.

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