Episode
Horizon: Who Will Make Me Better?
Overview
Horizon explores three types of alternative medicine; homoeopathy, acupuncture, and diagnosing food allergies by testing your toes.
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 26
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1989-04-03
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Who Will Make Me Better? is Episode 12 in 1989 of Horizon. It aired on 1989-04-03. The runtime is 60 min.
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