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Research: SHAH and colleagues, W
Listed in Issue 49
Abstract
SHAH and colleagues, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri USA shahs@msnotes.wustl.edu studied the effect of energy healing upon in vitro tumour cell growth .
Background
Methodology
The authors used the cell culture model similar to that used by oncologists to assess the effects of chemotherapeutic agents. An energy healer was selected, based on his ability to influence this model. The authors assessed the effects of energy treatment, compared to cells left at ambient temperature and to a control treatment a medical student mimicking the healer.
Results
A chi-square test comparing a medical students and the practitioners ability to inhibit tumour cell growth by 15% associated the practitioner with inhibition of tumour cell proliferation. The magnitude of change was too close to the assays intrinsic margin of error, making the quantitative data difficult to interpret.
Conclusion
Although energy healing appears to influence several indices of growth in the in vitro tumour cell proliferation, these assays are limited in their ability to define and prove the existence of this phenomenon Therefore, more sensitive biological assays are required for further study in this field.
References
Shah S et al. A study of the effect of energy healing on in vitro tumor cell proliferation. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 5(4): 359-65. Aug 1999.
