Reiki
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Research
440 papers- Reiki therapy for pain, anxiety and quality of life.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2019
- The Effect of Reiki on Pain Applied to Patients With Cancer: A Systematic Review.Holistic nursing practice · 2023
- Reiki, Nursing, and Health Care.The Nursing clinics of North America · 2020
- Reiki: Defining a Healing Practice for Nursing.The Nursing clinics of North America · 2020
- Reiki.African journal of reproductive health · 2025
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Article
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.