An interventional study of True Biofield therapy and Fake Biofield therapy in Wart, Energy Medecine and Magnetism, sponsored by University Hospital, Caen. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-04-02.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Caen · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Traditionally, healers are willing to look after, two out of three French citizens have already appealed to them at least once during their lives. Many healers in good faith are exercising their magnetism as a "gift" often inherited from elders. Now, they create interest of doctors who do not hesitate in some cases to ensure their cooperation, to implicitly recognize their mysterious talents. Some serious studies have examined these practices: Several studies have been conducted on the influence of biofield therapies in pain, depression and fatigue in cancer disease. The investigators propose a study of the effect of magnetism on the wart disease whose cure is objectively assessable.
Sixty-two subjects in total would be included, comparing 2 proportions observed: the proportion of healing in the group treated with a "real" biofield therapist (recognized and affiliated to the National Group for Alternative Medicine in France) to the proportion of healing in the group treated with a "fake" biofield therapist (someone assessed as not having capacity to magnetize). The "fake" biofield therapist, placebo, has been trained to replicate gestures during a training validated by an independent recognized biofield therapist.
171 studies on the registry are indexed under Warts; 35 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 62 is below the median of 70 across 155 interventional studies indexed under Warts.
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Patients with common warts on hands or feet for over at least 3 months are eligible for the study. Patients fulfilling one or more of the following criteria will not be included: lack of prior to randomization, younger than 18 years or under judicial protection, treated with oral corticotherapy for more than 6 months, or with history of transplant surgery, undergoing chemotherapy or suspected to have carcinomatous warts, or patients with infected warts, injured warts or already treated within 90 days with chemical processing, medical device, surgery or ever treated with biofield therapy.
Subject will be excluded from the study if its warts was treated by other treatment during protocol.
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Immunosuppression
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
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Subject will have a 40 minutes therapy with a real biofield therapist to treat the wart
Other: True Biofield therapy
Subject will have a 40 minutes therapy with a fake biofield therapist to treat the wart
Other: Fake Biofield therapy
disappearance of a common palmar or plantar wart
Time frame: week 3
disappearance of each other wart than the original one 3 weeks after the therapy
Time frame: week 3
Percentage of reduction of each wart will be calculated using mean diameter of each wart at W0 and W3
Time frame: week3
Percentage of reduction of each wart will be calculated using mean diameter of each wart at W0 and W3
Time frame: week 3
Disappearance of warts at 6 weeks
Time frame: week 6
Level of belief in biofield therapy of the subject
week 0
Time frame: week 6
Plan to share: No
The record gives a start of Apr 2016, a primary completion of Nov 2018 and a completion of Nov 2018. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.
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