Biological healer, how does it work?

Traditional Chinese Medicine works with chi (often spelled qi) (a real thing that Western Science can't really explain very well) to help the body heal itself.

While this usually happens with the use of acupuncture needles or other direct stimulation to the points and channels (acupressure, massage, electrical stimulation, heat, etc), or with herbs/diet, there also exists energy work that a practitioner uses, with or without touch, to effect changes. The one I was personally trained is is called HoChi and is a form of Chi Gong. But there are others. (Note: it's the same teacher but the website doesn't have the same focus on medical healing I had and sounds more New Agey now, even though it's a very old modality).

As wonderful as TCM is, it's not magic and it won't solve all problems. In China all the hospitals are half TCM and half Western Medicine. Because different ailments require different treatments. Sometimes you really do need surgery or pharmaceuticals. But all the staff are trained in both modalities so they work together very effectively.

Obviously what you're asking for doesn't exist in the real world, or people would be doing it. But it would be reasonable to take a system like TCM and amp it up. Give your Sanators so much control over chi that they can make it seem like magic. And allow them to channel universal chi to boost that of others (something that practitioners can do now but only in very small amounts).

This is not a perfect answer because you seem to be asking for science that shows this miraculous healing. No one can give you that because it doesn't exist. But this is the closest I can come. TCM or similar systems from other countries.

Edited to add in some research links on TCM, as requested. Some talk about the need for better research studies and some quote skeptics. Some just present the research.

• National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) (part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services). Also an article on acupuncture.
• Cancer Research UK.
• Pubmed search #1 "” Pubmed search #2
• Research Capacity at Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Centers in China: A Survey of Clinical Investigators, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017.
• Nature. Why Chinese medicine is heading for clinics around the world: For the first time, the World Health Organization will recognize traditional medicine in its influential global medical compendium.
• Research Finds Acupuncture Effective for Chronic Pain. American Academy of Family Physicians.
• MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Acupuncture.
• Mayo Clinic research on acupuncture.
• Society for Acupuncture Research.

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