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Radionics

Radionics is an alternative medicine system based on medical dowsing called Radiesthesia.

This method, developed by Dr. Albert Abrahams in the early 20th century, uses a ‘black box’ instead of a pendulum to detect and manipulate vital energy patterns in the body.  

All bodies radiate an electromagnetic field and Abrahams claimed his device could tell healthy from diseased tissue, based on changes in the vibrations of a person’s electric field as the body was scanned.  

Radionic instruments could then be re-tuned to emit ‘healing vibrations’ that would cure illness.