A CLINIC boss in Australia prescribed KFC to a girl with leukaemia and treated autistic children with "bellybutton massages", it has been reported.

Unlicensed practitioner Elvira Brunt allegedly administered odd "alternative therapies" to several children at the Fravira Clinic in Adelaide.

The mother of the boy who received the bizarre massage told a parliamentary inquiry in 2009 she is the only person in the country to offer such treatment, Adelaide Now reports.

"She just warms the blood up and manipulates the bloodstream through his bellybutton," the furious mother said.

But Brunt, who says she obtained her medical degree from "Old Yugoslavia", claims her patients have benefited from her treatment.

"Obviously I believe the patients have benefited because they keep coming back," she told Adelaide Now.

"I think the evidence of my treatment is the fact that I’ve been here for 30-something years, that I’ve never had to advertise, that all my appointments are filled, that all the patients return."

In 2009, she was named in a South Australian parliamentary inquiry into 'bogus, unregistered and de-registered health practitioners'.

That same year, an 18-month-old girl named Sophie was crushed to death at Brunt's clinic, ABC reported.
Sophie was playing with toys in the same room her mother Justine Schulz was getting a massage.

An inquest of was told that the little girl was killed when massage therapist Mira Maric – unaware of Sophie's presence – lowered the electric massage table and crushed her.

Brunt defended her practice, saying "hundreds of thousands" of such tables had been used in the past "without incident".

She added: "I believe it was a tragic accident and everyone did the best they could and no-one anticipated it could happen."

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