The worms actually make a lot of sense if you think about the hygiene hypothesis. A highly simplified explanation is that Autoimmune diseases are the body fight

The worms actually make a lot of sense if you think about the hygiene hypothesis. A highly simplified explanation is that Autoimmune diseases are the body fighting with itself, but by introducing a clear 100% threat of the kind our immune systems have evolved for millennia to fight, even if it doesn’t have to fight very hard, it’s basically a distraction, a lot of the time (because medicine is mostly statistical it’s never always the case with anything) the immune system attacks the “clear and present threat” instead of the stuff it was fighting in the patients own body. It makes a lot of sense, it’s gross but it does actually make sense and appears to work with measurable results… but it’s extremely hard to push for its development into a normal medically prescribed treatment given that it’s a parasite that we actively try to get rid of most of the time, it’s potentially infectious to other people, it’s gross and off putting to a lot of people (including doctors), and I’m sure there’s probably some sensible FDA related red tape reasons I’m not aware of too. But at least it makes sense. Weird medicine that make sense is still at least medicine.