ALCOR (80 Ursae Majoris). Alcor, forever tied to Mizar, is hardly ever spoken of unless as “Mizar and Alcor,” a naked eye double in the tail of Ursa Major that are 11.8 minutes of arc apart and that the Arabs referred to as the “horse and rider.”
Consequently, induction of the suggestion that the left leg is numb, if it reaches the right hemisphere unchallenged and is referred to the appropriate area of the sensory cortex, will result in an electrical reaction being generated that will induce the feeling of numbness.