Arthritis, Leukemia, or Cerebral Palcy. What Do They Have in Common? This is the list of medical conditions I wrote down while looking through the letters: 1. Arthritis 2. Bone fractures 3. Cerebral palsy 4. Frequent colds and flu 5. High blood pressure 6. Low blood pressure 7. Leukemia 8. Osteomielitis 9. Insomnia 10. Asthma 11. Diabetes 12. Breast cancer 13. Gastric ulcers 14. Sarcoma 15. Radiation syndrome 16. Radiation therapy syndrome 17. Chemotherapy syndrome 18. Terminal cancer (!) To my question about the working mechanism of the applicator, Valeri Punin replied "Very simple: it's a panacea." That idea was very good, indeed. Really -- what do diseases such as diabetes, sarcoma, osteomyelitis, radiation syndrome, infertility and frequent colds have in common? For example, there was Lena's case. She was a fourteen-year-old girl, who had been born with cerebral palsy. She had never learned how to walk. When her mother learned of the method, she bought several of the devices, in order for Lena's whole body to benefit from the treatment. Lena worked hard lying on them several hours a day and, after a year and a half, it happened! Lena was able to stand up and keep her balance. Then she started walking. I saw Lena take her first steps on videotape, shaky and awkward. Lena's mother with tears of happiness in her eyes was ready to encourage and protect her daughter at that moment as in the past. I met Lena's mother in Kuznetsov's office. She began crying as soon as we started talking about Lena's success. "Just imagine, what we could have achieved if we had known about the method when Lena was a baby!" Speaking of babies, I have read something even more impressive, the claims being made relative to babies that were born to survivors of the Chernobyl disaster who used the device. Valeri Punin told me that newborns of Chernobyl's victims, if wrapped from the very birth into tiny special vests with tiny plastic needles inside, fixed tight on the body to avoid scratching, fared significantly better than newborns from the same population who were not treated. What's more, the rate of birth defects was much lower among Chernobyl mothers who used the device during pregnancy. These results seem to be consistent with Punin's data on using the method in conjunction with radiation therapy. Patients who used the device had much less discomfort, had less hair loss, and had less irritated intestines and skin. Inspired by these effects, some of them continued using the device between therapy sessions. In the long run, these patients showed faster recuperation and less recurrent tumors. Another case involved a teenage girl with sarcoma of the shoulder joint. I saw a set of x-rays taken at six-month intervals. On the earlier one, the shoulder joint with the sarcoma was a complete mess. The doctors' prognosis was far from optimistic and she wanted to try using Kuznetsov's device. Although they could not promise her more than a few months to live, the medical staff prohibited her from using the device. But each night she secretly slept on the "bed of nails." After six months, even an inexperienced radiologist like me could see the improvement on the x-rays. Seven months later, the girl was playing her guitar! I'd been given the chance to view the before and after x-rays. I am not a specialist in x-ray pictures, but the absolutely remarkable improvement was evident even to me.