WTF cycling product.?!^%

conditioning from who? their parents?

Family, culture, religious and social norms and so on.

what do you suggest is compelling these people to go out of their way to find these "healers" and spend a lot money they may not have?

Familial, cultural, religious and social norms coupled with a desperate medical situation, fear and a distrust of science.

i do not know much about neurology, but do you think people who get suckered into his kind of thing are . .

a) choosing to not make a rational decision when they could or . .

b) do not have the capacity to make one?

if it is a) i do not see why they should be pitied or stopped.

That's a very good question, but we need to ask ourselves why someone would choose not to make a rational decision, I suspect both a) and b) are much the same thing (?) or at least closely related.