Studies show that reiki therapy may be useful for reducing stress and anxiety, easing pain, and even improving your quality of life. It can bring about symptom relief and other improvements, like: Help with meditation. Balance to your immune system.

Reiki is an alternative medicine technique that began in ancient Japan. It's sometimes called biofield therapy. Reiki uses healing energy that is channeled from the Reiki therapist, also called a practitioner or healer, to the patient with the goal of reducing stress, pain, and fatigue while enhancing energy.

Although Reiki is growing in popularity, there is little evidence that it provides any clinical benefit. Practitioners claim that Reiki can enable relaxation, reduce pain, speed healing, and improve some symptoms. However, few research findings support any specific health benefits.