Medicine Men Go Wild: World of Pain| 48mins
Director: Wayne Derrick, Dan Kendall, Tom Beard | Producer: Wayne Derrick, Dan Kendall, Tom Beard, Executive Producers, Zam Baring and Andrew Palmer
Focus Years: 2008 | Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
Chris and Xand are doctors. They're also identical twins. Trained in tropical medicine, they are ideally equipped to experiment with life beyond Paracetamol and Prozac. Embracing the strange practices of remote communities in pursuit of new medical knowledge, together they discover how people thrive in the fetid swamps of the Congo, experience extraordinary Eastern approaches to pain, are won over by the unhealthiest looking Arctic diet, and test the healing power of Amazonian spirits.
In this episode, the twins travel through Asia to examine the region's attitude to pain control. They start their journey at the Hindu festival of Thaipusam in Kuala Lumpur. Here, religious devotees appear to have an ability to endure the pain of piercings through the face and body by entering a blissful trance.
The brothers decide to take part as a scientific experiment for which, as twins, they are the perfect control. Xand prepares in the manner of a devotee by undergoing a week of religious instruction and abstinence, and Chris continues with his stressful job in London. The results are interesting and unexpected.
They then travel to Nepal to explore the region's ancient Tibetan medical system, which does not include any specific medicines to deal with pain. Finally, Chris and Xand visit India, where the Federation of Indian Rationalists Association attempt to show that it is possible to cope with the pain of being suspended in the air from hooks using only the power of the mind.
Medicine Men Go Wild: World of Pain
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