Good points.

I do think energy healing can be effective in some cases if there is an actual "energy disturbance." Not every pain comes directly from Satan/Demons, for instance. I mentioned dowsing/muscle-testing elsewhere, and it is interesting that you can ask a question, get a stable answer, do a spiritual intervention, and then get a different stable result. I had a pain in an arm for a year, contacted an energy healer about something else, and she claimed there was some bad energy in my arm even though I never mentioned it. So she cleared it and the pain/cramp went away.

Of course, there can be other explanations for the arm pain example. For instance, such a pain could be poor circulation and over the year, I could have grown more blood vessels in that area. There is a mechanism for clogged arteries/veins to signal they are in trouble and cause the body to grow more in that general area. The problem with that mechanism is that it doesn't always work. I mean, whatever enzyme/hormone involved would have to find target sites. If plaques are severe, these chemical messages are being sent, but there is nothing able to receive the messages. That gives a clue as to how exercise works. Physical stress releases the low circulation signals, so you grow more vessels to deal with the increased demands on the body. However, exercise doesn't necessarily remove plaques in and of itself.

And yes, your last paragraph reminds me of the term, Iatrogenic. That is something caused by medical interventions. At one point in time, there was an epidemic of pediatric blindness. Researchers started designing strong antioxidants since they concluded the eyes were getting too much oxygen in infants. But such drugs might have not made it to the market, but I don't remember. Doctors started re-examining their practices and concluded that maybe routinely using high oxygen supplementation for all newborns was a bad idea. Yes, oxygen is good for the body, but you need the right amount.