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Energy Medicine
The U.S. National Institute for Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) currently identifies five fields of complementary and alternative medicine:
- Alternative Medical Systems
- Mind-Body Interventions
- Biological-based Therapies
- Manipulative and Body-based Methods
- Energy Therapies
Energy medicine as it is practiced and studied is not restricted to what NCCAM includes in Energy Therapies, but also overlaps with practices in the other four NCCAM fields, such as the Alternative Medical Systems of Ayurvedic Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
During this 45 year evolution, Americans and Canadians have embraced the many therapeutic approaches offered by the proponents of these movements. Now, each year almost half of Americans use some alternative therapy. Medical schools and hospitals are tentatively offering a few courses and programs which barely scratch the surface of the rich resources of Humanistic, Holistic, Complementary, Integral, Quantum Integrative, Alternative, and Energy Medicine.
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