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Concerns have been raised over a TV psychic medium who claims 'ghost doctors' can heal pain from conditions such as arthritis.

Jeanette Wilson, a former bank manager, is touring the UK making claims including that she can remove the need to wear glasses, while also spreading anti-vaccination messages.

Ms Wilson, originally from the UK but based in New Zealand, told a recent audience in Chester that she would only "talk off camera" about the "best thing for scar tissue" so that "trading standards don't become all uppity."

Her ongoing tour includes dates at the Village Hotel in Birkenhead, Wirral, where guests can pay £20 for a two hour "psychic surgery" demonstration.

In one part of the show, Ms Wilson speaks to a woman complaining that she has arthritis, and tells the audience: "I have been doing this for 25 years, I haven't met yet a person that all arthritis can't be completely removed.

(Image: Jeanette Wilson, Creative Commons licence)

"I have seen all sorts, I have seen people with really deformed fingers, that look hideous, that go back to normal."

In another section she urges the audience to check out a Youtube video in which she says she helped a woman suffering with the degenerative nerve condition multiple sclerosis.

During the Chester show Ms Wilson tells the audience that a dead surgeon called Dr Augusto de Almeida is "working through her" to heal people.

In one segment, she speaks to a woman with chronic pain in her ankle due to an old injury.

She says: "So all that happens with the healing, it’s not very difficult for the healing. I wear white so that any energies taken off the patient, the recipients of the healing, don’t contaminate my energy fields.

(Image: Jeanette Wilson, Creative Commons licence)

"So that the guides that work with me - I’ve got a team of guides that work with me. They’re the ones that move my hands, they’re the ones that sometimes make words come out of here, give teachings."

The 56-year-old medium and author also promotes products including purple rice powder, a supplement which its makers claims benefits health, available at £85 per tub from her website.

In one part of her Chester show, she suggests that the "purple powder" is recommended for older people to "keep their vibrations up" and says to one audience member: "We do need you on the purple powder, ok?"

Criticism of Ms Wilson's claims have been shared by charity The Good Thinking Society, which promotes scientific scepticism, and worries that some of her guests will shun mainstream medical treatment.

Michael Marshall, project director at the society, told the ECHO: "We are concerned that Ms Wilson’s show could encourage sick and vulnerable people to come along so that she can perform a so-called healing on them, with no good evidence that those healings are effective.

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"Those patients could be convinced to believe that the solution to their health problems lies not in the advice of their doctors or any qualified medical professional, but in the healing powers Ms Wilson claims to have and the expensive products she sells.

"Given that there has never been any good evidence that anyone can be healed via a connection to the so-called spirit world, patients who entrust their health to anyone who claims to use psychic energy to treat any illness or injury risk wasting their time, wasting their money, and potentially even exacerbating their conditions."

Mr Marshall raised further concerns about a leaflet handed out at the show which contained links to anti-vaccination websites, suggested that vaccines in New Zealand are linked to Alzheimer's disease and called 5G technology a "weapon".

He said: "We are also very worried that the misleading and potentially dangerous claims Ms Wilson has made about the safety and efficacy of vaccines may persuade people not to vaccinate their children.

"At a time when we are seeing a resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses, spreading anti-vaccination misinformation could potentially put children’s health at risk."

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Mr Marshall told the ECHO he had referred Ms Wilson's activities to Trading Standards.

Ms Wilson, who appeared on a TV show in New Zealand called 'Dare to Believe', told the ECHO her critics had "mis-reported" her activities and made "false claims" against her.

She also said: "The reference to talking off camera about a product for scar tissue was me being super careful not to breach trading standards telling people about a product I have used and seen used that I do not sell.

"I am well aware of UK trading standards and work within them."