Benefits of Reiki, Tai Chi, Qigong

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) has a great page discussing numerous studies to evaluate the potential health benefits of Tai Chi. The NIH’s website is so thorough that the reader is strongly encouraged to navigate directly to it. The link is provided below.

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/tai-chi-what-you-need-to-know

Qigong is also being actively studied by the NIH:

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/qigong-what-you-need-to-know

According to the NIH, Reiki, however, remains somewhat understudied and lacking as much evidence in medical applications. However, the NIH’s page does reference a number of studies that have been done already on this along the right hand side of the following link:

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/reiki

Neat stuff on Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) for Reiki relative to various medical situations:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=reiki&filter=pubt.randomizedcontrolledtrial&filter=ds1.y_5&filter=species.humans&filter=language.english

Here’s a link to the meta analyses done on Reiki in the scientific literature:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=reiki&filter=pubt.meta-analysis&filter=pubt.review&filter=pubt.systematicreview&filter=ds1.y_5&filter=species.humans&filter=language.english