Proponents of conventional medicine doesn’t know whether meditation works, or what it does for the body. But the National Institutes of Health is willing to admit that something happens when a person has a regular meditation practice.

So they’re looking into the possible health benefits of meditation. That might mean years of studies. If you don’t want to wait, you can go to the website for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The center is a branch of the NIH that conducts research in approaches to health care that are “outside the realm of conventional medicine,” according to its website.

The site’s page on meditation won’t teach you how to meditate. But you will find information on mediation as a type of mind-body medicine. And you’ll get a listing of conditions that others have treated with meditative practice.