Can Reiki cause seizures?

Question

My brother gave my 22 year old son a Reiki treatment and he had a seizure during it. He had seizures occasionally since he was 15 but had not had a seizure in four years. He had been off his meds for 3 months, so it could just be coincidence. What do you think?

Answer 1

Sometimes when someone is being healed with Reiki, Reiki tends to heal their past problems. If Reiki was healing the cause for your son's seizures, then it might be possible that he had one as part of the cleansing process. If that is the case, then he shouldn't have any more seizures. If it repeats, then it wasn't due to Reiki, and you need professional help.

Continue giving him Reiki treatments regularly, I am sure he will be completely cured. If he is interested, he might even consider learning it himself and practicing self-healing everyday.

Reiki Love and Light

Answer 2

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Answer 3

This is more of a response to TJReamer. I shared your skepticism of alternative medicine. However, after an experience with Reiki I looked into it a little deeper, and found some interesting things. As a fellow research minded individual my first stop was research. For example there was a study done looking specifically at Reiki and epilepsy that found that the Reiki treatments did in fact decrease the frequency of the seizures (p<.01). The source is below.

I agree with you that skepticism is necessary. However, I think that we often dismiss treatments that may in fact do a lot of good, because they aren't mainstream (in our narrow stream).

Answer 4

No, Reiki can't induce a seizure as it is essentially a placebo treatment. This was just a coincidence.

People with a history of seizures will occasionally have a seizure, even if they are on medication. Of course they are more likely to seize if they are not taking their meds.

EDIT
I received an email from aspirit telling me to "Leave the Reiki answers to people who can give correct answers....don't offer opinions where you have no experience."

I pointed out that as a physician with an interest in S.C.A.M. (so called alternative medicine), I have studied a wide variety of "alternative health" beliefs particularly those that rely on "energy work" including reiki, healing touch ,acupuncture, traditional chinese medicine,etc. They are all based on the ancient concept of 'animas' a.k.a. prana, qi, human energy field etc, for which there is not a scrap of evidence. Science can detect microwave radiation left from the Big Bang, and Neutrinos which are so tiny they could pass through light years of lead before colliding with something else....but never have detected an energy field. Auras are a well known easily explainable phenomena known as the "coronal effect", so don't tell me they are "evidence"

There have been double blind studies of various of these disciplines, and practioners have failed miserably to detect the presence of said putative energy fields....which is the very basis of their "theory of healing'...that somehow the energy gets stuck at chakra points, which causes illness, and that somehow waving ones hands around unblocks the energy. Hard to unblock it if you can't even detect it. The Therapeutic Touch people did so badly in tests that they even changed their entire philosophy to something that is scientifically untestable, their "intention" to heal.

So, there is no evidence that energy fields, chakras etc exist.
There is no evidence that anyone can detect them or influence them in a way that has ANY effect on "healing" (of course that word 'healing' is defined by the practitioner as even somebody reporting they feel less anxious or more relaxed after a session. Why not just have a bath, a cup or tea...accomplishes the same without all the delusional mumbo-jumbo)

I also pointed out that if you ask a question in an open forum like Y!A, you can't decide to limit answers to only those who share your delusional belief system. We run into this issue all the time between atheists and religionist in the R&S forum. If you don't want to have your precious delusional world view shattered by reality, then you can post in a believers forum, where everyone agrees to share the same delusion.

As an educated person, a scientist, and a healthcare worker, I am just as entitled to offer my views as anyone else.

If SCAM actually worked, it would be adopted by all physicians and would become mainstream. It is called alternative, but really should be called unproven.

Answer 5

Reiki can't cause seizures. It's not possible. The most common response to Reiki is total relaxation. Perhaps your brother was thinking about something that caused hypertension. Nothing can control that except your brother.