One of the most interesting fields of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is Energy Medicine.
The National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) says that Energy Healing has two aspects where the energy can be measured and those that can't often those systems have a general term for the energy called biofields.
Every aspect of Energy Medicine is focused on helping to bring the body back into some kind of balance or homeostasis.
For the mesured kinds of Energy Medicine you have things such as Magnetic Therapy and Light Therapy.
Magnetic Therapy is as simple as it says, it uses magnets or their fields to help the body's natural healing process. The research on this topic is still growing, though there is some strong evidence for its use in healing carting kinds of fractions.
Light Therapy is again is like its name. It using different kinds of light wave lengths to help the body, one of the most commonly know forms of this is using “natural spectrum light” to help someone with Seasonal Affective Disorder adjust to the seasonal changes of light.
So far biofields have not been measured, and some people doubt their very existence.
Some of these are Reiki, Vortex Healing and one of the most well know of the latter is Oriental Medicine and its subsets; acupuncture, Qigong, Tai Chi (this is also a martial art it has found its way into CAM) to name a few.
In both Reiki and Vortex Healing the practitioner uses forms of what they call Universal Healing Energy to help the client to heal, these reports range from helping with mental disorders to healing people with chronic fatigue syndrome.
People have been trying to find these elusive biofields for a number of years. One of the most tools for this is to use electroencephalogram (EEGs) to measure a client's energetic response to reciving acupuncture or Reiki.
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