I’m far from a hypochondriac, but I do have my fair share ailments and illnesses. You can ask anyone here at Viral Thread and they’ll tell you that I’m the first to get a cold. A the the shadows get longer and the nights draw shorter, I’m sure I can already feel myself coming down with something.
However, the automatic response should not be to go shakily reaching for the $10 cough syrup or those market-leading painkillers. We live in a highly medicalised society and sometimes it’s all to easy to think that the answer to a medical problem can be solved by something we’ve seen advertised on TV.
In reality, sometimes it’s the alternative treatments which work the best. And while synesthesia probably makes you think of tasting colours and seeing sounds, this incredible health hack works on the same principle and can help heal various parts of your body.