Baldwin Ann L, Schwartz Gary E
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724-5051, USA.
J Altern Complement Med. 2006 Jan-Feb;12(1):15-22. doi: 10.1089/acm.2006.12.15.
To determine whether Reiki, a process of transmission of healing energy, can significantly reduce microvascular leakage caused by exposure to excessive noise using an animal model.
Reiki is beginning to be used in hospitals to accelerate recovery. Despite many anecdotes describing Reiki's success, few scientific studies are reported and none of those use animals. Animal models have the advantage over human subjects in that they provide well-controlled, easily interpretable experiments. The use of noise is relevant to hospital patients because of the excessive ambient noise in hospitals in the United Kingdom and United States. Loud noise can lead to several nonauditory disorders in humans and animals that impair recovery. In the rat, stress from noise damages the mesenteric microvasculature, leading to leakage of plasma into the surrounding tissue.
One group of four rats simultaneously received daily noise and Reiki, while two other groups received "sham" Reiki or noise alone. A fourth group did not receive noise or additional treatment. The experiment was performed three times to test for reproducibility.
Average number and area of microvascular leaks to fluorescent albumin per unit length of venule.
In all three experiments, Reiki significantly reduced the outcome measures compared to the other noise groups (sham Reiki and noise alone) (p < 0.01).
Application of Reiki significantly reduces noise-induced microvascular leakage in an animal model. Whether or not these effects are caused by Reiki itself, or the relaxing effect of the Reiki practitioner, this procedure could be useful for minimizing effects of environmental stress on research animals and hospital patients.
使用动物模型确定灵气疗法（一种传递治疗能量的过程）是否能显著减少因暴露于过度噪音而导致的微血管渗漏。
灵气疗法已开始在医院中用于加速康复。尽管有许多描述灵气疗法成功的轶事，但鲜有科学研究报道，且均未使用动物。动物模型相对于人类受试者具有优势，因为它们能提供控制良好、易于解释的实验。在英国和美国的医院中，环境噪音过大，噪音的影响与医院患者相关。大声噪音会导致人类和动物出现多种非听觉障碍，从而影响康复。在大鼠中，噪音引起的应激会损害肠系膜微血管，导致血浆渗漏到周围组织中。
一组四只大鼠每天同时接受噪音和灵气疗法，另外两组分别接受“假”灵气疗法或仅接受噪音。第四组既不接受噪音也不接受额外治疗。该实验进行了三次以测试可重复性。
每单位长度小静脉中荧光白蛋白微血管渗漏的平均数量和面积。
在所有三次实验中，与其他噪音组（假灵气疗法组和仅接受噪音组）相比，灵气疗法显著降低了观察指标（p < 0.01）。
在动物模型中，灵气疗法的应用显著减少了噪音引起的微血管渗漏。无论这些效果是由灵气疗法本身引起的，还是由灵气治疗师的放松效果引起的，该方法都可能有助于将环境应激对实验动物和医院患者的影响降至最低。
