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Energy Medicine

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Energy medicine is a branch of alternative medicine resting on the pseudoscientific belief that a practitioner can channel a form of healing energy into a patient to produce positive effects. The notion of energy invoked by its proponents is an esoteric concept distinct from, and unrelated to, the scientific concept of energy studied in physics.

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Energy medicine is a branch of alternative medicine based on a pseudo-scientific belief that healers can channel "healing energy" into patients and effect positive results. This esoteric concept of "energy" used by proponents of energy medicine is unrelated to the scientific conc
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