When Dr. Araceli Garcia proposed at the hospital October 12, where he works as a pediatric surgeon, a briefing on -therapy Japanese reiki heals with her hands toyed with the possibility for a second that took crazy. "But I thought I was presenting something that I had used to find better and took away the fear of rejection," he says.
involves channeling energy into a part of the body by placing hands on
The talk, by the president of the English Federation of Reiki , John Curtin, was held in January and was a success. While, since summer, over a hundred doctors and nurses have been trained in the hospital to give reiki.
"Reiki means universal energy," says Curtin. "It is a natural healing method that involves channeling energy into a part of the body, placing their hands on. Reiki does not cure itself, but it strengthens our self-healing ability.
scientific study
Dr. Araceli Garcia and see how their peers are applied Reiki to treat each other, for example, headaches. "And some nurses, more experience, use it to help hospitalized children sleep, "he explains.
At the other end of Madrid, the cancer patients of Ramon y Cajal spent three years getting reiki sessions every Tuesday through partnership Alaia, which deals terminally ill patients. Just this fall, the hospital has authorized an investigation into the effects of reiki.
We clothe a more scientific
"We have found that this treatment has a beneficial effect on patients, so now we want to invest it in a more scientific and, therefore, we will implement the project, to try to objectify the favorable effect of this technique "explains the head of patient care, Luis Carlos MartÃnez Aguado.
Nursing Section will be responsible for a study lasting six months and that the hospital expected to serve to convince the skeptics and reiki extend to other medical areas.
The boom of natural medicine
The introduction of natural therapies in hospitals to improve the health status of patients is an international trend. In Madrid, the Complutense University hosts from today until Sunday, at the Faculty of Medicine and the Hospital Clinico San Carlos, the Fourth Conference on control of emotions Bach Flowers for health professionals. For a few days, doctors do not talk about aspirin, but these flower essences that are listed as an option that is safe and highly effective to deal with emotional disorders such as stress, phobias, insomnia or anxiety.
