geeta shroff.> there's zero evidence for what she is doing, it being effective. she's charging patients a lot of money for this. and she has not published. and to my knowledge, there's no evidence at all that her therapies are effective. no indian doctor i know would be allowed to practice this. >> reporter: at the airport in south carolina, stephanie krolick is actually preparing to say good-bye. by prearrangement, her ex-husband will take cash to india for the first two weeks of treatment. she will join them just before christmas. >> let's say good-bye. i know. i don't want to say good-bye to you. i don't want to say good-bye. i'm going to miss you a whole, whole, whole lot. i love you. >> say good-bye, mom. >> good-bye, little love. >> reporter: the beginning of a long, long journey. >> reporter: a journey which eventually winds up here, in a tiny room at a small clinic. it may seem an improbable place to come to find a cure for incurable ailments, but cash is by no means alone. so far 87 americ

geeta shroff who runs nu tech mediworld. says she began her medical career delivering babies, morphed into an infertility specialist, and finally she operates the only clinic on the planet, she says, using embryonic stem cells to treat disease on an everyday basis. how many patients do you have a day here? >> plenty. >> reporter: plenty. from all over the world? >> yes. >> reporter: when she gives us a tour, patients are, indeed, from everywhere with an astonishing array of severe problems. >> he's getting his injection, yes. >> reporter: this man is from baghdad, a paraplegic because of multiple gunshot wounds. is this your first time here? >> yes. >> reporter: this indian toddler, she says, has a genetic disorder similar to the one affecting cash. and this american teen was paralyzed three years ago in a motocross accident in southern illinois. >> before i came here, i had, you know, no movement in my left hand between the fingers and stuff. >> reporter: uh-huh. >> now i can contract them really good. >> reporter: that, wh

shroff said she tried submit some scientific papers on her work.ou have tried present this to the international society of stem cell research? >> yes. twice. >> reporter: they said don't even bother coming? >> no. i sent one presentation last year, 2010, or was it 2009? i'm just mixed up a bit and one in 2006, both the times they said no. you can't come. you can't accept -- you can't come and read your paper. >> they believe, in general, that you and others doing this are frauds. >> but if we are frauds, then come pull us down. i'm willing to come to your den and talk there. down there if i'm a fraud. >> you are not a fraud? >> i'm not a fraud. never a fraud. i refuse to be called that. >> so, drew, the doctor's convinced she is doing the right thing. is she? >> reporter: well, that's -- she never uses the word "cure," anderson, and she will only say she is improving these patients' lives based on her own scale that she came up with. there's no clinical studies, no scientific evidence that anything she is doing is any good, other than her patients