A five-minute voice recording can reveal whether you are fated for a heart attack or heart break - or so Hong Kong's newest form of alternative therapy claims.
Swami Jaguar calls himself the city's first practitioner of VoiceBio, touted as providing all the data needed for a full medical and psychological assessment. It works on the theory that organs emit musical frequencies, which can be analysed to see how they are functioning.
'Ultrasound needs to send beacons to [individual] organs, but VoiceBio can see all the organs at once. It can tell if a person is going to have a heart attack or develop diabetes later in life,' he said.
He explained that the assessment by VoiceBio, developed by former police officer Kae Thompson-Liu in America after 'a series of dreams', is then used to prescribe treatment.
Mr Jaguar, who is in talks with Central's New Age Shop to set up consultations, says there are a thousand practitioners worldwide. But medical and consumer experts are sceptical.
'This sounds like a total scam. How can a voice be used to analyse physical health? So hearts, lungs and pancreases can all talk? It is absolutely ridiculous,' medical sector legislator Kwok Ka-ki said.
