Reiki Is Better Than Placebo and Has Broad Potential As a Complementary Health Therapy

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David E. McManus This study reviews the available clinical studies of Reiki to determine whether there is evidence for Reiki providing more than just a placebo effect. The available English-language literature of Reiki was reviewed, specifically for peer-reviewed clinical studies with more than 20 participants in the Reiki treatment arm, controlling for a placebo effect. […]

Osteopathic Principles: The Inspiration of Every Science Is Its Change

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Bruno Bordoni and Allan R. Escher Jr. The osteopathic manual approach and osteopathic medicine (OM) were conceived and built from the studies and experience in the nineteenth-century of Andrew Taylor Still, DO. According to Dr. Still, “Osteopathy, or osteopathic medicine, is a philosophy, a science, and an art”. The foundations of OM emphasize the fact […]

Individualization

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Manish Bhatia Homeopathy recognizes the individuality of each drug and substance in nature. Its method of testing or ‘proving’ drugs upon the healthy human beings is designed and used for the purpose of bringing out the individuality of each drug so that its full power and relations are established. … As we all have an […]

Ayurveda and the Chakras

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Scott Gerson The concept of the human body as a microcosm of the Universe is one of the most fundamental concepts of Ayurveda. This concept is known as loka-purusha sāmya siddhanta (loka-universe; purusha-human being; samya-sameness; siddhanta-teaching). Ayurveda views the entire creation, including the human body, to be constituted from five fundamental elements (pañca mahabhutas). The […]

Morphic Resonance: Implications for Homeopathy

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Doug Brown Living beings such as humans are self-organizing holes, continuously given opportunities to make choices. Most of the time our actions are guided by habits, which continuously reinforce the morphic field in which we are enfolded. But a remedy with a similar-enough vibration to our own opens up new potentials for self-awareness and links […]

Can a Whole-Plant-Food Diet Help Lupus?

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Matthieu Bonjour et al. Diet is emerging as a cost-effective treatment for chronic inflammatory conditions, including autoimmune disorders such as lupus. There are reports showing that fasting and plant-food diets improved clinical symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, another autoimmune condition.

Review of the Germanic/German New Medicine of the Discoveries of Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer

Ilsedora Laker After twenty years of research and therapy with over 31,000 patients, Dr. Hamer finally established firmly, logically and empirically how biological conflict-shock results in a cold cancerous or necrotic phase and how, if the conflict is resolved, the cancerous or necrotic process is reversed to repair the damage and return the individual to […]

Selection of Bach Flowers for Improving Sleep Quality

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Sheila Katia Cozin Nosow and Maria Filomena Ceolim Objective: to promote a reflection on the proposal for selection of five Bach flower useful for the improvement of sleep quality. Method: a descriptive study, reflective theoretical type, from the PubMed search tool, articles published in MEDLINE database, and books with original data on Bach flowers. Results: […]