Verfahren der Komplementärmedizin. Beispiel: Heilung durch Gebet und geistiges Heilen
Walach, H. · Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz · 2006 · Heft 7 · S. 788 bis 795
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Zusammenfassung
Spiritual healing and healing through prayer have been among the methods for healing diseases of mankind since time immemorial. Even today they are quite popular in many parts of the Western world, as epidemiological data testify. Also in Germany, although less systematic data are available, spiritual healing is being used quite a lot. This interest is driven mainly by word of mouth and media presentation of spectacular single case descriptions of healing. Scientifically speaking, such cases present a challenge to science to understand the mechanisms at work. Systematic scientific studies, however, are rather sp…