A study titled Physiological effects of emotion: assessment via hypnosis was published in the The Lancet, Volume 340 on 11 July 1992 of 18 adults with IBS found that hypnosis “strikingly” reduced colonic motility, thus decreasing diarrhea and cramping.
Assessment of the physiological effects of physical and emotional stress has been hampered by a lack of [...]
BBC News Online, on June 29, 2004, reported a study by a team from Soroka University, Israel that included 185 women. The study was presented to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Berlin.
Dr Eliahu Levitas, who led the research studying if hypnosis could make the embryo transfer stage of IVF more [...]
An article published in the New Scientist on March, 30 2001 by Emma Young points out the benefits of hypnotherapy and relaxation training when utilized by patients with Hodgkin’s disease or non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma undergoing chemotherapy. These patients lived longer.
Leslie Walker of Hull University studied 63 patients with newly diagnosed cancers, all of whom were receiving [...]
The article “Hypnosis helps healing: Surgical wounds mend faster” posted in the Harvard Gazette discusses a report published in 1999 by Dr. Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal (professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School) on their study of the use of hypnosis and the speeding up the healing of broken bones.
The study (i.e controlled experiment) [...]