An irregular, reckless life-style and faulty dietary habits have wrought havoc with the health and the lives of people. Constitutional diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, asthma, arthritis, etc. are steadily on the rise .To help the ailing humanity, a number of treatment methods, medicinal as well as non-medicinal, have come into existence. Medical forms of treatment are, undeniably, more popular. The reasons for such a state of affairs are not far to seek for a doctor, practicing medicine in an easy, time-effective and profitable venture. A doctor in general practice can examine ant treat more than a hundred patients a day . On the other hand, practicing non-medicinal therapies requires a lot of time and labour, which is out of step with the socio-economic determinants of modern age. Even the patients, today, have become easy-going. Rather than taking active interest in their health-matters, they want to sit back and let the doctor fix them up!

           However , the drawback of medicinal treatment are gradually coming to light .In general, most medicinal therapies try merely to relieve symptoms rather than striking at root -cause of disease(i.e., imbalance of body energy).Such symptomatic treatment merely suppresses the disease , which bound to resurface later. Secondly, medicines produce undesirable (and sometimes fatal) side effects. Thirdly, with the advent of super-specialist doctor, five star hospitals and high tech instrument, medical treatment is becoming more and expensive .All of us have seen many families brought to ruin by enormous medical expenses. Finally, medical sciences are, increasingly, becoming impersonal and technical, the clinician being more interested in the disease than the patient

           A growing awareness about the shortcomings of medicines has made people seek alternative forms of treatment which use one or other form of healing energy rather than chemical medicines. To such people, reiki therapy offers itself as an excellent alternative.