Interesting article (requires free registration) about the various remedies from different cultures for colicky babies:

"For Maggie Wong, director of marketing at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in Chinatown and a first-time mother at 40, comfort came from doing acupressure massage of her baby's palm, as taught by an acupuncturist friend, or chanting the names of Buddha.

"It helps to calm me down also," Ms. Wong said.

At a time when mainstream medicine is marketing non-Western techniques from yoga to acupuncture, native parents seem more open to trying "natural" methods - or to buying trademarked approximations: a "Miracle Blanket" for swaddling, a "Lull-a-Band" inspired by a Guatemalan grandmother, a teddy bear that makes womb noises."