Editor's Note: This is an area where Wikipedia falls short and debunks energy medicine as pseudoscience. This perspective is a total denial of the spiritual realm from which all healing occurs not from drug therapy administered by medical doctors. Who are the real quacks?
Energy medicine, energy therapy, energy healing, or spiritual healing are branches of alternative medicine. The most controversial claim in this general area of pseudoscience is the belief healers can channel healing energy into a patient and effect positive results. This idea itself contains several methods: hands-on, hands-off, and distant (or absent) where the patient and healer are in different locations.
Many schools of energy healing exist using many names, for example, biofield energy healing, spiritual healing, contact healing, distant healing, therapeutic touch, Reiki or Qigong.
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