There are mesoros for segulah/spiritual remedies for things; women have a mesorah in blei gissen, for instance. Does anyone have a mesorah for holding or wearing gems as a segulah? If not, why do it?
Energy healing is riddled with avodah zara, including hisgashmius haboreh – they believe that the “universal energy” is Hashem r”l, snd that it can be channelled, directed… it’s perforce not infinite.
My rebbe Rav Belsky once told me about a certain respected posek who allowed “practitioners” to literally ask the “kochos” for help in healing their patients prior to doing whatever it is they do. Rav belsky summarily referred to him as a “crackpot”. Unfortunately, the Yeshiva world is not free of avodah zara. Boruch Hashem, we have gedolei yisroel who have warned us for decades to steer clear of energy healing; only recently have some misguided people fallen for it.
I’m shocked at the matter-of-fact assertion that the refuos in chazal are based on folk wisdom; who besides maskilim has ever said that?…tosfos says that we don’t use them because nishtanu hateva; that’s the majority opinion of the rishonim if i remember correctly. Chazal had a mesorah for scientific knowledge.