Healing

	Against allopathy; Alternative medicine
	Clinically unproven
	Dianetics; Dry needling; Edward Howell; Folk remedy; Frank Lipman; Health And Wellness Business Association; Homeopaths Without Borders; IRenew; Immune system boosting; Jeremy Sherr; Kenneth Copeland; Mozart effect; National Council Against Health Fraud; Oil pulling; Traumeel; Vibroacoustic therapy; v - t - e

Healing has two unrelated meanings.

In medicine

In medicine, healing is the restoration of structure and function of injured or diseased tissues.[1] Recognised healing processes include blood clotting, tissue mending, scarring, and bone healing.

In woo

In the field of alternative medicine, the definition of healing is expanded beyond the medical one to also include making you feel more energetic, increased wellness or any other placebo based outcome that the alternative medicine practitioner can take credit for.

Examples of woo "healing" which, when listed, sound like a bad Osmonds-style family woo-pop band:

gollark: Revise/consider/etc based on *what* though?

gollark: Do humans even *have* goals which we rationally try to long-term-maximize like that?

gollark: Can you not have a *sophont* paperclip maximizer in this universe then?

gollark: Are you just meant to act *as if* they are? Because that doesn't sound very... accurate to reality.

gollark: I remember reading about the AI box thing, but I don't know how it's meant to actually work as an experiment, given that the people are presumably aware that the other person is *not* a superintelligent AI and cannot do much to them.

References

Healing. The Free Dictionary.

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[1] Healing. The Free Dictionary.