Alternative Medicine (Hint: This is NOT really medicine)

[The Valkyrie]

The muscle diagnosis reminds me of one of my favorites, iridology.

Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis[1] or iridiagnosis[2]) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents claim that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts, which divide the iris into zones that correspond to specific parts of the human body. Iridologists see the eyes as "windows" into the body's state of health.

Iridologists believe they can use the charts to distinguish between healthy systems and organs in the body and those that are overactive, inflamed, or distressed. Iridologists believe this information demonstrates a patient's susceptibility towards certain illnesses, reflects past medical problems, or predicts later health problems.

I've never heard of anyone actually practicing it, though.

I wonder if this actually exists, but I'd be amused to invent one along the lines of "Aurology". You read a person's "aura" to diagnose their problems and then use some sort of woo (that I haven't thought up yet" to "treat" them.

Wonder how much money I could make . . .?

Pen and Teller do a good knock down of alternative medicines on Bullshit.