A review of the science behind biofield therapies published in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine suggests that energy based interventions such as reiki, therapeutic touch, and healing touch, could actually help reduce pain intensity in hospitalized patients as well as in cancer patients. The reveiwers, further, found moderate evidence that these therapies ease agitated behaviors in dementia and also reduce anxiety in hospitalized patients.
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