Study of Non-contact Healing Using Biophotons(Research Reports A,The 39th Annual Convention of the Japanese Society for Parapsychology)

Abstract

This study evaluates the effects of non-contact healing such as laying-on-of-hands and prayer using biophotons. Pairs (control and sample) of a cucumber (Cucumis sativus) were measured with a highly sensitive detector for 18 h, and the intensity of biophotons from the experimental sample was compared with the control. There was no difference in the intensity between the experimental samples and controls in the non-treatment and thermal treatment groups. However, in the healing group, the intensity of biophotons from the experimental samples was significantly greater than the controls (p = 0.002, two-tailed paired t-test). In addition, quantitative evaluation for the effect of non-contact healing was possible by using, as an index, a logarithm of the ratio of intensities of biophotons from experimental samples and controls.