A growing network of untrained acupuncture practitioners in Kerala is promoting unscientific and potentially dangerous healthcare practices, including home births. Under the guise of ‘natural healing’, these groups advocate childbirth without medical supervision, sidelining evidence-based healthcare. Recent gatherings in Malappuram celebrated women who delivered at home, even awarding them, suggesting an organised push to normalise such risky practices. Shockingly, some in the group also discourage routine immunisations like polio vaccines.