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There's this book that Jackie's reading. It's called "내손이 약손이다", which roughly translates as Healing Hands (literal translation is silly: My hands are medicine hands). Anyway, it's a book about reflexology/zone therapy, which basically theorises that parts of your hands and feet are connected to the other parts of your body. By massaging you hand in the right place, you can get rid of pain elsewhere in your body.

It works well, so far, but the strange, but strange thing is the following.

It's called the O-ring test. And here is how you do it.

1. Place your left hand on a part of your body that you think is unfit, i.e. your knee, or stomach. Alternatively, hold something that you may ingest in your left hand, i.e. an apple, or a cigarette.
2. Now take your right thumb and forefinger and hold the tips together to make an O. Hold on as tight as you possibly can.
3. Get a friend. This is left as an exercise to the reader.
4. Your friend should be about as strong as you. Your friend must try and pry your O-ring fingers apart, using thier thumbs and forefingers only.
5. Here's where it gets strange, but strange. If the part of your body is not well, i.e. sore or sick, your O-ring will come apart. If the thing you are holding is bad for your health, i.e. a cigarette or a bottle of vodka, your O-ring will come apart. But if that part of your body is healthy, or the thing you are holding is good for your health, then your O-ring will stay intact.
6. Just remember to hold your O-ring as tight as you possibly can. And friends, if you are too strong or too weak, this may not work out well.

I tried it on my nose, and my O-ring fell apart. My nose has been runny, stuffed, dry, and clear all at once and all day for the last week or so. It works with a cigarette.

Try it, and you'll be surprised.

Okay, I just did a search, and you can look at more detailed information here.