healing touch

  • 1healing touch — A form of complementary and alternative medicine based on the belief that a vital energy flows through the human body. This energy is said to be balanced or made stronger by practitioners who pass their hands over a patient s body. Healing touch… …

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  • 2Touch pieces — are coins and medals that have attracted superstitious beliefs, such as those with holes in them or those with particular designs. Such pieces were believed to cure disease, bring good luck, influence peoples behavior, carry out a specific… …

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  • 3healing — restoration to health, O.E. hæling; see HEAL (Cf. heal). Figurative sense of restoration of wholeness is from early 13c.; meaning touch that cures is from 1670s …

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  • 4Distance healing — Healing in which people seek to help patients simply with the power of the mind. Distance healing can include anything from therapeutic touch in which practitioners, without touching their patients, try to alter their energy fields to praying for …

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  • 5Therapeutic touch — Intervention MeSH D019124 Energy medicine …

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  • 6Zen-Touch Shiatsu — is a derivative form of the Japanese therapy Shiatsu (Japanese: 禅指圧) and is particularly popular in the United States and Europe. It was developed in 1984 by Seymour Koblin, a graduate of the Shiatsu Education Center of America now known as the… …

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  • 7Faith healing — Faith healer redirects here. For the play by Brian Friel, see Faith Healer. Faith healing is healing through spiritual means. The healing of a person is brought about by religious faith through prayer and/or rituals that, according to adherents,… …

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  • 8The Book of Healing — (Arabic: الشفاء Al Shefa , Latin: Sanatio ) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by the great Islamic polymath Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) from Asfahana, near Bukhara in Greater Persia (now Uzbekistan). Despite its English title …

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  • 9Therapeutic Touch — (TT) (englisch für Therapeutische Berührung) ist eine in den USA verbreitete alternativmedizinische, so genannte bio energetische Behandlungsmethode, eine Variante des Handauflegens, bei der der Behandler den Patienten allerdings nicht berührt.… …

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  • 10Jesus healing in the land of Gennesaret — Jesus healing the sick by Gustav Dore, 19th century Jesus healing in the land of Gennesaret is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels, i.e. Matthew 14:34 36 and Mark 6:53 56.[1][2] According to the Gospel of Mar …

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