Quackwatch. How faith healers cash in with 'dark age' remedies for critically ill children. Faith healers charging hundreds of pounds for 'useless' cancer treatmentOne healer said she could identify a tumour using a remote 'body scan'Another said bladder cancer surgery could be avoided using a special breathing techniqueHealer claimed girl’s tumour was a 'manifestation of an energy blockage’ By Sophie Goodchild and Stephen Adams Published: 22:00 GMT, 7 June 2014 | Updated: 13:55 GMT, 8 June 2014 So-called ‘faith healers’ are charging vulnerable and desperate cancer patients hundreds of pounds for treatments that some doctors have condemned as being useless and from the ‘Dark Ages’.
One therapist claimed the method she followed – which included ‘energy healing’, ‘environmental remedies’, taking herbs and changing diet – could help cure a child of her brain cancer. The woman, who calls herself a Theta healer, also told an undercover reporter that she could identify if a person had a brain tumour using a remote ‘body scan’ without any medical equipment. Hampstead witch doctor conned £1m from 'patients' 'to give to shaman in the Amazon' 'Shaman' Juliette D'Souza conned 11 people out of their life savings She claimed she could cure the sick and help women conceive babiesBut her clients lost faith in her and she now faces a lengthy sentence By Chris Greenwood and Sara Smyth Published: 19:01 GMT, 29 May 2014 | Updated: 03:53 GMT, 30 May 2014 Facing jail: Conwoman Juliette D'Souza, who extracted £1million on clients desperate for spiritual healing to fund her excessive lifestyle.
