Energy medicine, energy therapy, or energy healing is a branch of complementary and alternative medicine that covers two distinct types of therapy:
1) Physical Energy Therapies: These include electrotherapy using direct and alternating currents, magnetic and electromagnetic field therapy, light therapy, color therapy, photomedicine therapy, and other electromagnetic wave therapies. Also included are sound wave therapies using either normal sound, ultrasound, or infrasound waves, and crystal healing whereby crystals channnel therapeutic physical energy waves to a person.
2) Biofield Therapies: These include a wide variety of therapies that include healers channelling healing energy into the person seeking help by different methods such hands-on (therapeutic touch), hands-off, and distant or absent healing, where the patient and healer are in different locations. Also included are Chakra healing, Qigong healing, Reiki, Prana healing, polarity therapy, and other similar therapies using the internal energy of the patient.
People doing research on energy medicine: