Four out of ten French people use "alternative" therapies to take care of their health. A trend that has moved the lines within classical medicine, since it no longer hesitates to open its doors to this type of discipline. Alternative medicines to classical medicine such as hypnosis or auriculotherapy can be practiced by general practitioners and are taught at medical universities. Doctor Grégory TOSTI general practitioner and hypnotherapist hypnotizes her patient Valérie MARTIN who suffers from back pain that the drugs can no longer calm. She reacts to this first session: "Yes, very relaxed, it’s very pleasant." For this doctor, no ambiguity, hypnosis does not replace classical medicine: "hypnosis is a rich tool to use as a complement to medical management". From general practitioners to large hospital departments, alternative medicine is gaining ground. At the Gustave Roussy Institute, patients who suffer the consequences of chemotherapy are offered auriculotherapy sessions. A auriculotherapy patient talks about pain relief: "I feel better. I feel good." Etiopathy, acupuncture, aromatherapy, nearly half of generalists today report using these practices not recognized by health insurance and yet taught in the largest faculties of medicine. Recently, Montpellier, the oldest, has been training its students in ideogram, Chinese medicine. Doctor Alain DJEMAA, general practitioner: "I’m not going to tell all my patients I stop giving you drugs from the laboratories and we do everything Chinese. But a lot of my patients learning that I’m doing this training are wondering when you can treat us like this." These training courses lead to a real university diploma, the solution for framing these different medicines, which still too often attract charlatans.
Report on floral therapy through the use of Bach flowers. Description of the principles of manufacture of these floral elixirs with Pascale MILLIER, scientific director of the laboratory DEVA, which takes as an example the virtues of the golden button. An example of an application of Bach flowers, with Françoise BARONNAT, osteopath, flower elixir consultant, who describes how she uses this method to help athletes who wish to go above and beyond.
Magnetism session filmed in a therapist’s office. Interview with the patient and the therapist who explains that magnetism therapy sells less than Asian therapies such as Taï Chi or Reiki.
Doctor Roger Dalet performs a digitopuncture on several patients. Using his technique of placing fingers in sensitive areas, the doctor shows the pressure to exert oneself to treat sore throat, toothache, flu, liver attack, drunkenness, hiccups, headaches, insomnia.
Illustration of a treatment in mesotherapy on a high level athlete, a basketball player touched on the shoulder. His doctor treats him by mesotherapy by injecting him with a pistol into the painful area by explaining that the principles of action have not been scientifically proven. A sprinter testifies by explaining that the treatment was beneficial for one of his painful knees.
In several Breton cities, speakers organize meetings on transcendental meditation. It’s a medicine that has worked where traditional medicine has failed, such as stress. Presentation of "Ayurveda", a medicine from India.
In the laboratory, the various treatments of algae to remove from processing products used especially for algotherapy (or health by algae). Seaweed is harvested, prepared (crushed, macerated), and used for treatments (marine cures). The virtues of seaweed: relaxation, anti-stress. In a treatment centre in Trouville, clients are treated by algotherapy: baths, wrap application, showers, massage. A client explains that she is taking her treatment for her well-being, relaxing.
Care session by magnetism performed by a first practitioner who explains that he performs "a spiritual step", "which he heals by his hands which are a vehicle for forces superior to us". A second healer practising magnetism also performs a magnetism session on a patient.
Presentation of the contributions of sophrology with a therapist of the discipline, gilles Bosc. Session and concentration exercises in front of a patient, a professional musician. The practitioner explains that his techniques make it possible to "re-harmonize the body"
Survey on the working conditions of researchers. Reportage shot at the Gustave Roussy Institute in Villejuif: Mr ARREL, a master in cancer research, defines the profession of researcher and expresses himself on the material conditions of this profession.
Report in Rishikesh, on the foothills of the Himalayas, where an ancient palace of Maharadjah was transformed into a real temple of well-being: an Ayurvedic spa. Ayurveda is a traditional medicine from India. It takes into account the three dimensions of health: mental, physical and spiritual. Thanks to the practice of yoga and traditional massages, patients rediscover well-being and serenity. The commentary on factual images alternates with the interview of doctor C. SREENARAYANAN, Ayurvedic doctor, of Lhamo, responsible for Tibetan care, of Mark SANDS, director of the Spa - Hotel Ananda and a patient.
Presentation of a center specialized in cancer screening at the hospital of Villejuif, offering different therapeutic treatments (radium, cyclotherapy, surgery, the colbalt bomb).
Des chercheurs britanniques exhument le corps d'une victime de la grippe espagnole pour faire un prélèvement d'échantillons de poumon et décoder l'empreinte génétique du virus. Objectif : trouver un vaccin contre la grippe A. Interviews de David Marlow (conseiller municipal de Twinckenham) et de Mike Smith (médecin généraliste).
The European Telesurgery Institute has opened in Strasbourg and will allow for remote surgical operations. Comment on images of a telesurgery operation alternating with the interview of He"rvé MAISONNEUVE, medical director and Jacques MARESCAUX, director of the European Institute of Telesurgery.
Interview with Jean François LABARRE, CNRS director at the Paul SABATIER University in Toulouse, about the discovery of molecules capable of fighting cancer cells.
A French surgical team at the Broussais hospital, headed by Professor Alain CARPENTIER, has, for the first time in the world, successfully performed a simultaneous heart-lung-liver transplant on a 16-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis. This transplant carried out on June 22 by a team of 19 people had not yet been revealed. This success opens new therapeutic hopes. This intervention was led by Professor CARPENTIER and Dr HOUSSIN. Comment on images of the medical team, of the operating room of a child in intensive care and infographics alternating with the interview of Alain CARPENTIER who explains that the heart transplant was carried out for reasons of greater technical ease. However, it is a palliative treatment, the important one being to treat the disorders created by the defective cystic fibrosis gene. In France, a child with the disease is born every day and it will not be possible to transplant all the little patients.
At the hospital Béclère in Clamart, where the first French test-tube baby was born, an interview with Dr Emile PAPIERNIK about the debate on surrogate mothers for sterile couples, particularly on the fact that this transaction is profitable, as for example in the United States. According to him, it is not a question of banning but of launching a societal debate on this subject.
Following a report on the subject, a recorded interview with Professor Gérard SAIMOT, Claude-Bernard Hospital, about the cancer of male homosexuals (Kaposi’s sarcoma) that appeared in France. This disease is detected by a simple clinical examination and by biological examinations, there is no perfectly effective therapeutic, the study of cases should allow to know the causes "why homosexuals", and better prevention. It is not proven that "poppers" have a direct role in the development of this disease, but in doubt it is necessary to abstain.
Reportage sur l'épidémie de grippe qui sévit au Japon, notamment sur les mesures sanitaires mises en oeuvre pour limiter la propagation de la grippe asiatique.