Magnet bra cures lumps

Press, 7 April 1984, Page 12

Magnet bra cures lumps

NZPA-Reuter Peking

Chinese doctors have said that a magnetised bra can shrink non-cancerous breast lumps without surgery, but they confess that they do not know why, says the “China Daily” newspaper. A medical conference in Shanghai heard that 218 women suffering from a painful breast condition called cystic hyperplasia wore the brassieres under clinical test conditions. “In 102 cases the condition has completely or nearly cleared up while another 96 have measurably improved,” the report said. The special bra incorporates five tiny magnetised panels of cobalt, copper, and cerium, two held in place over a special acui puncture point and the other three over the lump itself. Doctors told the conference that patients felt relief of pain in the first month and the lumps finally disappeared. The report said that cystic hyperplasia, most common during puberty or the menopause, was apparently caused by a drop in the body’s supply of the male hormone, androgen.

A technician who had helped develop the bra, Yuan Zhonghua, told the “Daily,” “The question of how the magnetic panels really work is not clear.”