healing hands
Curative human contact
Healing hands refers to the supposed ability to cure illness or relieve pain through touch, associated with faith healers, energy practitioners, and folk medicine traditions.
The phrase often carries skeptical undertones when used by outsiders: She claimed to have healing hands, but the tumor kept growing.
More loosely, it describes anyone with a gift for physical therapy, massage, or comforting touch: The nurse had healing hands—patients always felt better after she adjusted their pillows.
- therapeuticPromoting healing or wellness
- massageSoft tissue manipulation
- physical therapyRehabilitative movement-based medical care
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
warmth · palms · palm reading · fingertips · gentle · soft touch · reiki · energy · energy work · tender · caress · tender loving care · nurturing · comfort · relief · pressure · kneading · laying
- bodyworkmassage, massage therapy, manual therapy, bodywork, deep tissue
- Nursing imageryFlorence Nightingale, nurse uniforms, wartime nurses, white cap
- hand art
- energy healingreiki, energy work, aura cleansing, attunement, craniosacral
- revivalismrevivals, revivalism, revivalist, revivalists, camp meeting
- Southern folklorehaint, conjure, root work, root doctor, root doctors
healing handssurgery
Invasive medical procedure
pills · scalpel · chemotherapy · surgical knife · drugs
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