Kathy Moreland Layte, RN, MScN, HTCP/I
Dans un nombre croissant de travaux de recherche, il est question de l'impact et de l'efficacité de Healing Touch et d'autres thérapies biochamp comme le Reiki et Qi Gong. Les conclusions de ces études font un rapprochement entre la régulation du systÚme immunitaire et la réponse de relaxation.
Quoique les essais cliniques (études quantitatives) sont encore à l'état préliminaire, il existe déjà de nombreuses études pilotes et des essais cliniques qui sont faits sur des personnes qui reçoivent des soins Healing Touch. On cherche à savoir si les soins ont un impact sur la fonction cellulaire du corps (Jain & Mills, 2010; Anderson et Taylor, 2011).
Les effets immunologiques d'une thérapie Healing Touch ont été mesurés à partir des immunoglobulines et les cellules T malignes qui sont reconnues comme étant des composantes du systÚme immunitaire et qui vont régulariser la réponse au stress. Cette immunologie a démontré la capacité du systÚme immunitaire à combattre les cellules cancéreuses (Lutgendorf (2010), Jain et Mills (2011) et Maville, Bowen & Benham (2008).
Les études sur l'interaction des systÚmes immunologiques, neurologiques et psychologiques intégrés (processus psychoneuroimmunologiques), nous permettent de conclure qu'il est possible que des changements cellulaires se produisent dans le corps. Selon ce modÚle, la capacité naturelle du corps de se purifier s'améliore et les systÚmes sont régularisés.
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