This form of alternative medicine uses energy fields to promote healing. Biofield therapies affect energy fields that are said to encircle the human body, including Reiki, qigong (pronounced chee gung, and basically meaning “life energy cultivation”), and therapies that involve electromagnetic fields
*A* focus on herbs, nutrition, vitamins, dietary supplements, and herbal medicine is perhaps the most common form of complementary and alternative medicine. Emphasizing raw foods is one of these approaches