Crying statues, and milk drinking idols in India, miraculous springs in Lourdes, a Shroud of Turin in Italy, the Hair of a prophet and murderous suicides in the hope of paradise and 72 virgins in the Arab world, along with scores of similar 'miracles' could be attributed to man (and woman's) religious fervour and irrational beliefs. With religions, there is no saying what they will come up with.
That is expected. What is not expected is the Prime Minister of Canada exhibiting bruise marks on his arms and body that we are told come from his use of 'cupping'. 'Cupping' or Ventoz as it was called in Goa is an ancient suction treatment with bamboo cups originating in China millennia ago and supposed to be used for "drawing excessive blood" to alleviate a range of ailments like Shingles, facial paralysis (Bell's Palsy), acne and worn out neck discs. In Goa on holidays in childhood I had cuppings done on me for colds, chills and fevers with small shot glasses substituting I would think in 'civilized Portuguese fashion' for bamboo cups. But Justin Trudeau doing this in the twenty first century in the western world along with the alternate medicine crowd, makes one wonder whether the more we know, the more we go back to voodoo. Please don't tell me we are harking back to ancient medicine. There's that and there's this constant love for ignorance. Roland Francis Toronto.
