
Shamini Jain, PhD Richard Hammerschlag, PhD Paul Mills, PhD Lorenzo Cohen, PhD Richard Krieger, MD Cassandra Vieten, PhD Susan Lutgendorf, PhDĭepartment of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego (Drs Jain and Mills) Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Diego (Drs Jain and Mills) Consciousness and Healing Initiative, San Diego (Drs Jain and Hammerschlag) The Institute for Integrative Health, Baltimore, Maryland (Dr Hammerschlag) Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health, University of California, San Diego (Dr Mills) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (Dr Cohen) Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California (Drs Vieten and Krieger) California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco (Dr Vieten) Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Urology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa, Iowa City (Dr Lutgendorf).īiofield therapies are noninvasive therapies in which the practitioner explicitly works with a client’s biofield (interacting fields of energy and information that surround living systems) to stimulate healing responses in patients. The other authors had no conflicts to disclose. Dr Cohen reported a paid consultancy with Applied Biophoton, Inc, outside the submitted work. DOI: 10.7453/ Correspondence Shamini Jain Key Words Biofield, biofield therapies, healing touch, Reiki, therapeutic touch, hands-on healing, healing, clinical trials, integrative medicine, energy medicine Disclosures The authors completed the ICMJE Form for Potential Conflicts of Interest, and Dr Jain reported receipt of a grant from Westreich Foundation outside the submitted work. Clinical Studies of Biofield Therapies: Summary, Methodological Challenges, and Recommendations Content designated as open accessĬitation Global Adv Health Med 2015 4(#):58-66.
