Cryptomedicine

On the planet Vivaldi, two field researchers, the

anthropologist Sinus Ak and the physician Doa Mito travel

through four tribal territories in order to study traditional folk

medicine and newer unconventional therapies. In the Ezerite

territory, they learn much from a natural healer who uses plants

and herbs. He links them to a truck farm where a widow grows

mushrooms and fungi used in many therapies. Here, they meet

an advanced user of magnetic therapy. An inspector from

the Ministry of Health sends an undercover agent to infiltrate

this clinic as an assistant. Sinus and Doa learn how the power

of magnetic tubes can be amplified and focused on ailing

sections of patient bodies. The inspector decides to pose as a

patient, but is identified and dies in a magnetic chamber. The

clinic survives and continues.



In Tilia Territory, Sinus and Doa deal with crystal therapy

augmented by laser light radiation. The light expert, the

physician, and the two making the study undergo arrest but

refuse to turn on each other. No one is prosecuted for the

gemstone therapy.



In Boyanian Territory, traditional acupuncture is advanced

through a new method of skin scraping that is superior to the

use of tiny needles. Holographic microscopy enhances the

therapeutic effects. An attempt by the head of the foremost

hospital to halt, arrest, and prosecute those involved, including

Sinus and Doa, fails and the latter two flee and escape the

Boyanian authorities.