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Now growing at a rate of over 5% per annum, the $3 billion ‘alternative health therapies’ business is now positioned in the top ten growth industries in Australia. With poor regulation of both therapeutic goods and the unregistered therapists who promote them, cancer patients may well be putting their health at risk when they place their faith in many so-called ‘natural’ or ‘traditional’ treatments. With a focus on what complementary therapists refer to as ‘energy medicine’ and ‘nutritional medicine’, this chapter explores the risks and benefits of some of the more popular alternative health-care choices. While investigating their histories, it outlines what influences cancer patients to try these unproven therapies, and the conflict and contrast in information relating to the claims made for them and the conclusions of evidence-based research. Although there are a number of complementary therapies that are of benefit to some patients, both during and after their cancer treatments, ‘natural’ does not always equal ‘safe’, may be expensive and may even compromise their health. More patients now want a greater say in their choices of treatment, and selecting complementary therapies that may help is another of the many challenges faced in trying to make informed choices, as we navigate along our individual roads on our journeys to recovery.

Medical Resonance Therapy Music® originated from Peter Hubner in Germany using the theory of resonance for applications in clinical settings by his multidisciplinary team of professionals. The sonic (20–2000 Hz) and subsonic frequency (0.034–5 Hz) of resonance music is best delivered through headphones with ear muffs in an undisturbed environment 20 minutes or more twice a day. Therapeutic music synchronizes with cellular physiological rhythm, restores neuro-hormonal balance and rekindles the body ability of auto-healing. It helps in restoring different physiological functions, including the nervous, circulatory, digestive and endocrine systems that have their own rhythms. With the appropriate frequency of music, users enter a state of relaxation that guides the body to adjust its pace to deal with stress, insomnia, anxiety, migraine headache, hypertension, hormonal and immune disorders and other clinical problems. The best known examples were serving victims of the Chernobyl nuclear plant incident and children with hypertension. In Germany nowadays, patients can buy Medical Resonance Therapy Music® CDs from pharmacies based on physician prescriptions for 18 types of common medical symptoms and problems, supported by over five years of positive clinical and scientific evidence.

Medical Resonance Therapy Music® should not be overlooked as its new developments have already expanded to Chinese Medicine like “acu-music” (music of different Meridians), Chiropractic practice (music for Spine health), Ayurvedic Medicine (music of Chakras energy centres), mindfulness based meditation (music of meditation) and education (whole brain nurture, creativity and intelligence). The strength of Western Medicine lies in cure of infectious diseases, surgeries and emergency life-saving. Chinese Medicine is strong in managing sub-health before diseases emerge. Natural Medicine goes back to basics of nature and adopts our self-healing power to promote health. However, Medical Resonance Therapy Music® should be considered as a complementary therapy of health problems, but not replacing evidence-based Western Medicines.

A real form in a Hermitian symmetric space M of compact type is the fixed point set of an involutive anti-holomorphic isometry of M, which is connected and a totally geodesic Lagrangian submanifold. We prove that the intersection of two real forms is an antipodal set, in which the geodesic symmetry at each point is the identity. Using this we investigate the intersection of two real forms in irreducible M as well as non-irreducible M and determine the intersection numbers of them. This is a survey article on the joint research with Hiroyuki Tasaki.