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Reiki

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Reiki is a pseudoscientific form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine created by Mikao Usui in Japan in the 1920s. Practitioners use a technique called palm healing, in which they claim to transfer a universal life force called qi through their hands to a client for healing purposes, though there is no empirical evidence that such a life force exists.

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Discontinued or Obsolete 1
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Mikao Usui, Healers
Source Wikidata: Reiki
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Reiki is a pseudoscientific form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine created by Mikao Usui in Japan in the 1920s. Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which, according to practitioners, a "universal energy" is transferr
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Wikidata: Reiki
  • Wikidata Q183057, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Discovered By: Mikao Usui, Wikidata P61 (w-bbfill-medicine3-0926)
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