Ayurveda, Heavy Metals, NCCAM, Reiki/Touch

NCCAM reviews reiki and ayurvedic

 The National Center for Contemporary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) has updated their introductory reviews.

Here’s what’s important.

Reiki

  • More than 2.2 million adults in the United States have used Reiki.
  • It’s used for a wide variety of conditions.
  • But “Trial data for any one condition are scarce and independent replications are not available for each condition,” according to this review.
  • Overall, the value of reiki is unproven.

Ayurvedic

  • About 751,000 people in the United States had ever used ayurvedic medicine.
  • Of greatest interest (to me): “One-fifth of both US-manufactured and Indian-manufactured Ayurvedic medicines purchased via the Internet contain detectable lead, mercury, or arsenic.”

9/2/08 20:11 JR