Practices at the edge of accepted medicine — what has been studied, what has not, and where the record ends.
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Health-adjacent category. Entries describe what has been claimed and what has been tested. Nothing here is diagnosis or treatment advice — speak to a qualified clinician about your own care.
An evidence-first guide separating supported effects of music and sound-based relaxation from broader claims that particular frequencies heal organs, repair DNA or cure disease.
Read full entryRoyal Raymond Rife was a real American inventor and microscopist whose instruments, photographs and collaborations are documented.
Read full entryGrounding or earthing means placing bare skin in contact with soil, grass, sand or water, or connecting the body indoors to electrical ground through a conductive mat or sheet.
Read full entryAutophagy—literally “self-eating”—is a family of cellular recycling processes that break down damaged proteins, organelles and other material in lysosomes.
Read full entryAyahuasca names diverse Amazonian brews and ceremonial traditions, commonly combining Banisteriopsis caapi vine with a DMT-containing plant such as Psychotria viridis.
Read full entryThe Wim Hof Method combines cycles of deep rapid breathing and breath retention with meditation or focused attention and gradual cold exposure.
Read full entrySound can alter attention, emotion, arousal and pain perception. Music therapy, rhythmic breathing, chanting and tactile vibration all have plausible pathways through hearing, expectation,…
Read full entryOzone therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy are frequently grouped because both invoke oxygen, but they are chemically, physically and medically different. Oxygen gas is O₂.
Read full entryThe vagus nerves are major communication routes between the brainstem and organs in the chest and abdomen.
Read full entryHalotherapy is the inhalation of dry salt aerosol in a room designed to resemble the atmosphere of a salt cave or mine.
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Techniques and instruments that were once in use and later abandoned, misplaced or superseded.
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Suppressed records, contested chronologies and the politics of what gets written down.
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Cosmologies, rites and symbol systems recorded across the ancient world.
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Figures that recur across mythologies — and the archaeology, hoaxes and folklore around them.
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