It also increases the pressure on Mr Sayeed and his Congress partners to drop the healing touch for the heavy hand.

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They must inhabit an alternate reality, where magical forces flow through and around the body, and magical, pseudoscientific treatments like acupuncture, healing touch, magnet therapy, and homeopathy somehow really work.

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So, what I intuited from my work on placebo was that many therapies may elicit healing by using the sense of touch, or more generally the manipulation of somatic attention in order to address a disordered somatic-attention system.

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"I had seen and felt the healing of those combat veterans that would touch a name of their friend, " Minor said.

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