Pain, stress and other symptoms may be relieved. Patients and doctors have numerous reports of the helpfulness and efficacy of healing.
Research confirms healing is effective well beyond a placebo effect.
There are over 200 controlled studies demonstrating that healing can influence water, enzymes, cells in laboratory cultures, yeasts, bacteria, plants, animals, and humans. Healing is well accepted by doctors in England , where healers work in doctors' offices, and some are paid under the National Health Service. Many more doctors are referring patients to healers at the healers' clinics. Healers work regularly at hospital pain, cancer and cardiac rehabilitation centers. This provides a forum and resource for sharing information and progress in integrating healing with conventional medicine.