Magnetic therapy practitioners claim magnets can also do this. Practitioners use devices such as magnetic wrist bands and beds to treat illness.
Magnetic therapy is very popular in Japan and eastern Europe.
The use of magnets can be traced to ancient Greeks, Egyptian and Chinese doctors. It was said that Cleopatra wore a magnet on her head to retain her beauty. Modern magnetic therapy can be traced to Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer. Magnetic therapy is also known as magnetotherapy or biomagnetic therapy. According to magnetic therapy practitioners iron atoms in the red corpuscles of the blood respond to magnetism.