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Volume 13: Number 2: Article 1
The Effect of "Healing with Intent" on Pepsin Enzyme Activity
Toni Bunnell, School of Health, University of Hull, East Riding Campus,
Beverley Road, Willerby HU10 6NS, United Kingdom
This study was conducted in an attempt to determine whether "healing
with intent" could be shown to exert an effect on pepsin enzyme activity
which, if proven, might serve to raise the credibility of healing as
a bona fide therapy. The ability of healing to influence enzyme activity
was chosen as a method of assessment as it eliminated the possibility
of the placebo effect, which is often encountered when using human subjects.
The rate of breakdown of egg albumen by a 1% pepsin solution was followed
using a Jenway 6051 Colorimeter at a wavelength of 470 nm. An effect
due to healing was indicated by experiments using percentage light transmission
(%T) as an indicator of reaction rate. Across 20 separate trials the
reaction rate of the enzyme sample "healed with intent" was found to
be significantly greater than the unhealed sample (P = 0.03).
Keywords: healing, healer, alternative medicine, complementary medicine,
bioenergy, biomagnetism
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The Effect of "Healing with Intent" on Pepsin Enzyme Activity
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