THE EFFECT OF "HEALING WITH INTENT" ON PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATES IN ASTHMATICS

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to determine whether "healing with intent'" (HWI) could be demonstrated to exert a beneficial effect on peak expiratory flow rates (PEFR) in diagnosed asthmatics. In 22 asthmatics who received HWI, for a ten-minute period, their PEFR was found to imptove significantly (p = 0.009), while 18 of these subjects who returned a week after the first session showed still further improvement (p = 0.003). No significant change was observed in the 26 non-asthmatics that received HWI following either the treatment or conttol session. These results suggest that the delivery of HWI, for ten minutes, to people with asthma, ptoduces a significant improvement in breathing efficiency, using peak expiratory flow rate as an indication of lung function.