Energy medicine

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The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ^[1] describes Energy Medicine as therapies that use forces that are, and are not, detectable with conventional scientific instrumentation. There are two broad subclasses:

Bioelectromagnetic-based therapies involve the unconventional use of electromagnetic fields, such as pulsed fields, magnetic fields, or alternating-current or direct-current fields.
Biofield therapies are intended to affect energy fields that purportedly surround and penetrate the human body.

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