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Energy medicine is one of five domains of "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) identified by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in the United States.[1] Subfields within the practice of "energy medicine" and even practitioners themselves vary wildly in terms of philosophy, approach, and origin.

NCCAM divides the overall approach to the practice of "energy medicine" into two general categories:

putative, therapies predicated on theorized forms of "energy" (that is, forms of energy of which scientific investigation has not confirmed the existence)
veritable, therapies which rely on known forms of energy (that is, forms of energy such as electromagnetism)

Early reviews of the scientific literature on energy healing were equivocal and recommended further research,[2][3] but more recent reviews have proved increasingly negative[4][5][6][7][8] with some complaining of a paucity of reliable data.[9] The theoretical basis of healing has also been criticised[10][11][12][13] and Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, has warned that "healing continues to be promoted despite the absence of biological plausibility or convincing clinical evidence ... that these methods work therapeutically and plenty to demonstrate that they do not."[6]

Some claims of those purveying "energy medicine" devices are known to be fraudulent.[14] Their marketing practices have drawn law-enforcement action in the U.S.

Extracted from www.wikipedia.org.