Alternative Medicine Techniques Have Non-Linear Effects on Radiation Response and Can Alter the Expression of Radiation Induced Bystander Effects

• Main Authors: Carmel Mothersill (Author), Richard Smith (Author), Matthew Henry (Author), Colin Seymour (Author), Raimond Wong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Many so-called "alternative medicine" techniques such as Reiki and acupuncture produce very good outcomes for intractable pain and other chronic illnesses but the efficacy is often dismissed as being psychosomatic. However a plausible mechanism does exist i.e. that the treatments alter the...