Drop out rate is lower. Expectancy effects cannot be ruled out - but the fact that the specific TYPE of acupunture mattered suggests it wasn't all an expectancy effect. By manipulating energy, TT practitioners claim to be able to improve the health of client. TT is taught in more than 100 colleges and universities in 75 countries. It is used in at least 80 hospitals in North America.
Healing involves restoring equilibrium of energy.
When an individual who is healthy touches an ill person with the intent of helping or healing him, he acts as a transference agent for the flow of prana from himself to the ill person. It supposedly flows in and out of sites of body called chakras. TT differs from other alt med techniques and scientific medicien by its emphasis on the healer's intention. The TT hypothesis rests on the idea that the patient's energy field can be detected and intentionally manipulated by the therapist. Proponents describe the HEF as real and perceptible.