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Reiki
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Within Vinony's link graph, Reiki is referenced by 702 other articles, and connects out to alternative medicine, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and pseudoscience.
Vinony files it under 1922 introductions, Biofield therapies and Energy (esotericism).
Its subject is documented across 57 Wikipedia language editions.
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- placebo
- Subclass of
- alternative medicine
- Country of origin
- Empire of Japan
- Official website
- www.reiki.org
- Image
- Reiki-Treatment.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Reiki
- OpenStreetMap tag
- healthcare:speciality=reiki
- Commons category
- Reiki
- native label
- 霊気
- time of discovery or invention
- 1922-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Mikao Usui
- has effect
- relaxation
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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
thumb|A reiki session in progress
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Reiki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.