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AdvanceAccessPublication17January2006 eCAM2006;3(1)139–141 doi:10.1093/ecam/nek002 Commentary CAMandthePhenomenologyofPain AlexHankey HetheHouse,CowdenKentTN87DZ,UK ManyCAMmodalitiesaffordrelieffrompain,eachinitsownway,oraccordingtoitsownterminology. ComparisonofdifferentCAMmodalitiesresultsinasimplephenomenologyofpaincenteredaroundthe ideathatpainmaybeassociatedwithblockagesoftheflowofenergyinthesystemofnadis/acupuncture meridians. Keywords:pain–TCM–ayurveda–EAP–acumeridians The paper on Complementary and Alternative Medicine author can tell, because cranial osteopaths are trained in a heightenedsensitivitytolevelsofactivationordepressionof energiesintheacupuncturemeridiansystem(2)[thisapplies to both their own bodies and those of their patient(s)]. Such sensitivity enables cranial osteopaths to participate in the kindofprocessesIdescribenext. ApproachesforPediatricPaininyourApril(1)issuegavean admirablereviewofpublishedpapers,butmoreisneededfor it to live up to its intention of being a full ‘Review of the State-of-the-Science’. Complementary medicine contains manymoremodalities,whichcanbeusedagainstpain.Even more importantly, some of them shed considerable light on the nature of pain itself, and in a way which neuroscience doesnot. In healing, two kinds of pain relief appear to be possible. One in which the pain is moved or removed using the healer’s (heightened) sense of touch, and the other in which itismovedmentally.Theformeroccursinhands-onhealing such as that described in Barbara Anne Brennan’s classic text, Hands-of-Light (3). The healer may simply channel or transmit healing energy through their hands to the patient, and this may have a curative or analgesic effect. Otherwise, at a more advanced level, they may become aware (through an expanded level of their awareness, to which they usually have to be trained) of areas of dysfunction, problem and pain in the patient (4) (M. Pascoe and T. Marris, personal communication). To these they may allow or encoura