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Energy medicine, or bioenergetic medicine, refers to therapies that use an energy
field—electrical, magnetic, sonic, acoustic, microwave, or infrared—to screen for
or treat health conditions through the detection and correction of imbalances in the
body’s energy fields. Most energy medicine devices are based on the acupuncture meridian system, where life energy, or chi, flows
through the body along energy channels called meridians.
While electro-acupuncture biofeedback devices are widely used in Europe and Japan, such
devices have only been approved on an experimental basis for screening patients in the United
States. The electro-acupuncture biofeedback devices, while being potential tools for assessing
health conditions, are complemented by energy medicine treatment devices, which allow
practitioners another therapy to combat disease and illness by rebalancing the body’s
energy flow. Most forms of energy medicine have not been scientifically evaluated.
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