Reiki Study

[SamWilkinson]

This is from a December 2009 article:

The two largest scientific reviews of reiki, published last year in International Journal of Clinical Practice and in November 2009 in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, reveal that reiki is not an effective treatment for any condition.

Reiki practitioners never touch their patients anyway. What they claim is that they are channeling the "universal life force" through their hands, which they move around over the body but not touching it.

They claim to heal people but they don't. I don't know why Reiki isn't as illegal as trying to sell $100 bottles of water as a cure for cancer.

 

[crimresearch]

This is from a December 2009 article:

The two largest scientific reviews of reiki, published last year in International Journal of Clinical Practice and in November 2009 in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, reveal that reiki is not an effective treatment for any condition.

Reiki practitioners never touch their patients anyway. What they claim is that they are channeling the "universal life force" through their hands, which they move around over the body but not touching it.

They claim to heal people but they don't. I don't know why Reiki isn't as illegal as trying to sell $100 bottles of water as a cure for cancer.

Because you can actually produce the bottles of water in court as evidence?

 

[Wolrab]

I could kick myself for not referring my older brother to a reiki master. He has uncontrolled diabetes and went septic. He had a right below the knee amputation and survived. Did I mention I don't like my brother?

 

[Aridas]

One thing about Reiki, It can ruin friendships.

Had a friend who was paying good money for training in reiki as well as therapudic/sport massage etc. I was her guinea pig, and it was awesome for deep tissue massages. but when she got into reiki, she really believed it. So me being skeptical and pointing out the issues whilst she was working on me, and Me not having the same effect that her trainers had when she "layed on hands" caused her to doubt herself, and then blame me. It ended up being the begining of the end. And went from being close to not hearing from her in over 10 years.

The mumbo Jumbo she was using to explain what the teachers taught her was painful to the ears.

< edit> holy thread necromancy Batman < /edit>

Heh. Yeah, this is something of an amazing case of necromancy.

Interestingly enough, I have training as a massage therapist, including Reiki on the side. That said, when I learned it, it was made perfectly clear that it was very much not a treatment for everyone. I'm surprised that your friend wasn't directly informed of this. In somewhat wooish terms, it could be explained as some people just not being sensitive enough to feel anything. Granted, it screams placebo and likely is such. At least mostly, if not all. I can still do it, either way, but... Heh.

This is from a December 2009 article:

The two largest scientific reviews of reiki, published last year in International Journal of Clinical Practice and in November 2009 in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, reveal that reiki is not an effective treatment for any condition.

Reiki practitioners never touch their patients anyway. What they claim is that they are channeling the "universal life force" through their hands, which they move around over the body but not touching it.

They claim to heal people but they don't. I don't know why Reiki isn't as illegal as trying to sell $100 bottles of water as a cure for cancer.

I'm curious about the source of some of your claims. There are a number of "energy-based" modalities, a relatively small subset of which are Reiki. As far as I know, Reiki, in each case that I've seen, definitely includes touch. Light touch, but still touch, unless you're dealing more with distance healing. There are quite a few very similar practices, though, that are not touch based. I wouldn't be surprised if a practitioner decided to just call some of them Reiki for the name recognition.

As for the illegal comment... since when have placebos, in general, been illegal? At worst, it's just another placebo.

 

[pakeha]

^^^
"Claiming to cure" is the central issue, I think.
But I'd also include those woo-ish diagnostic procedures Reiki prectitioners claim to be able to do as possible grounds for legal action.

 

[crimresearch]

^^^
"Claiming to cure" is the central issue, I think.
But I'd also include those woo-ish diagnostic procedures Reiki prectitioners claim to be able to do as possible grounds for legal action.

The whole premise of Reki is that the magical universal life force energy (and the magic symbols) do all the work, no medical knowledge needed. What diagnostic procedures are you talking about?