In the world of alternative medicine there is a category of practices called, “energy medicine”. Energy medicine is one of five types of alternative medicine that has been identified by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in the United States of America. There are several different approaches to those that are classified as energy medicine including “putative energy medicine”, and “veritable energy therapies”.
In the 1980s a non-profit International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine was founded that was responsible for giving credence to energy medicine.
Practices known as “variable energy medicine” include light therapy, and magnet therapy. If used together they are known as electromagnetic therapy.
Those practices that are considered to be “Putative Energy Fields” include acupuncture, homeopathy, therapeutic touch, Reiki, Qi, and qi gong, Johrei, healing touch and intercessory prayers.
It is a common belief in the practices of energy medicine that when there are imbalances in the body’s “energy field” the result will be illness. The goal is therefore to re-balance the body’s energy field so that health can occur.
Those practices that fit under the “veritable energies” do so because they can be measured. They involve very specific, measurable wavelengths, and frequencies that are used to treat patients.
Many uses have been found for measurable energy fiends in diagnosing, and treating diseases some of the uses you may be familiar with and include cardiac pacemakers, radiation therapy, laser keratoplasty, and ultraviolet light therapy for those suffering from psoriasis.
Other veritable energy practices that you may be less familiar with are millimeter wave therapy used to treat skin diseases and various types of cancer, as well as gastrointestinal and cardiovascular diseases and also psychiatric illnesses in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe; sound energy therapy which includes music therapy suggests that our body can heal or be supported by specific sound frequencies resonate with very specific organs within the body; light therapy is another practice that makes use of light in order to heal and includes the use of lasers, colors, and moochromatic lights, High-intensity light therapy is documented to be useful when seasonal affective disorder has been diagnosed.
Those practices that fit under the “Putative energies” are those which have yet to be measurable. Many people call the putative energies “biofields” are based on concepts such as “life force” and are given different names in the various cultures such as within the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), qi and ki refer to life forces and in Indian culture, Ayurvedic medicine prana, etheric energy, fohat, orgone, odic force, mana, and homeopathic resonance are all vital energies that flow from the maternal body and which cannot be measured but yet exist in the practice and has an effect on the physical body that can promote health.
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