Luminas Pain Relief Patches: They cure whatever through ... energy (wait, no, magic).

Energy. Quacks keep using that word. I do not think it suggests what they think it suggests. Luminas doesn't. Yes, I know that I use a great deal of variations on that popular quote from The Princess Bride-to-be all the time, probably more regularly than I should and most likely to the point of frustrating a few of my readers, however, damn, if it isn't a nearly all-purpose phrase to use to riff on various quackery.

Likewise, if there's one principle that quacks love to abuse, it's energy. Whether it's "energy recovery" like reiki, where professionals claim to be able to channel healing energy from the wonderful mystical "universal source" particularly into their client to specifically heal whatever ails them, even if it's from a distance or you're a canine, or "healing touch," where practitioners claim to be able to manipulate their patients' "life energy" fields, again to healing result, a lot quackery is based upon a misconception of "energy" as basically magic. So it is with some spectacularly funny woo that I stumbled upon recently and, considered that it's Friday, chose to include as a sort of Friday Dose of Woo Lite. It even abuses quantum theory since of course, it does. A lot quackery does.

So what are we speaking about here? What is Luminas? To be sincere, more than anything else, it reminds me of the ridiculous "Body Vibes" energy stickers that Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop were offering last year (and most likely still are) that declare to "rebalance the energy frequency in our bodies," whatever that suggests. Let's look at the claims.

On the front page of the Luminas site, you'll discover a video. It's well-produced, as lots of such videos for quackery are, and it blathers on about how the product being marketed benefits from "transformations in quantum physics," as a great deal of quackery does. Let's see how this charming patch allegedly works.

The standard claim is that the Luminas patch is charged with the "energetic signatures of natural remedies known for centuries to minimize swelling." These natural treatments include "Acetyl-L-Carnitine, Amino Acids, Arnica, Astaxanthin, B-Complex, Berberis Vulgaris, Bioperine, Boluoke, Boswellia, Bromelain, Chamomile, Chinchona, Chondroitin, Clove, Colostrum, CoQ10, Cordyceps, Curcumin, Flower Essences Frankincense, Ginger, Ginseng, Glucosamine, Glutathione, Guggulu, Hops Extract, K2, Lavender, Magnesium, Motherwort, MSM, Olive Leaf, Omega-3, Peony, Proteolytic Enzymes, Polyphenols, Rosemary Extract, Telomerase Activators, Turmeric, Vinpocetine, Vitamin D, White Willow Bark and over 200 more!"

How numerous of you suffer from occasional pain or chronic pain? The Luminas Pain Relief Patches takes minutes to work and lasts for up to 3 days. Every day I have stomach pain, leg & foot pain, lower back pain and hip pain from a hip replacement. I have actually been using the pain relief patches for 2 weeks now and I can truthfully inform you that they do help to ease pain, but I didn't get adequate pain facebook.com/LuminasRelief relief to stop taking my typical pain medication.