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Reiki
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Research
440 papers- Reiki therapy for pain, anxiety and quality of life.ReviewBMJ supportive & palliative care · 2019Billot M, Daycard M, Wood C et al.DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001775
- The Effect of Reiki on Pain Applied to Patients With Cancer: A Systematic Review.Holistic nursing practice · 2023Avci A, Gün MDOI: 10.1097/HNP.0000000000000601
- Reiki, Nursing, and Health Care.ReviewThe Nursing clinics of North America · 2020Lipinski K, Van De Velde JDOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2020.06.018
- Reiki: Defining a Healing Practice for Nursing.ReviewThe Nursing clinics of North America · 2020Lipinski K, Van De Velde JDOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2020.06.017
- Reiki.African journal of reproductive health · 2025Hazar FDOI: 10.29063/ajrh2025/v29i8.18
- Does Reiki Benefit Mental Health Symptoms Above Placebo?Frontiers in psychology · 2022Zadro S, Stapleton PDOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.897312
- Reiki and pain: Continuous citation of a flawed meta-analysis.Complementary therapies in clinical practice · 2022Moran JMDOI: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2021.101412
- Reiki and Humanistic Theory: Common Ground for Holistic Counseling.ReviewAlternative therapies in health and medicine · 2025Robichaux M, Garza-Chaves Y
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Conceptual basis
- Technique
- Research and critical evaluation
- Evidence quality
- Safety
- Catholic Church concerns
- Training, certification and adoption
- History
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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Reiki is a pseudoscientific form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine created by Mikao Usui in Japan in the 1920s. Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which, according to practitioners, a "universal energy" is transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the client, to encourage emotional or physical healing. It is based on qi (), which practitioners say is a universal life force; there is no empirical evidence that such a life force exists.
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