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 Praying by Faith evokes beneficial changes in the body. When they have faith, they experience decreases in Blood pressure, Metabolism, Heart, and breathing rates as the famous “ relax response ‘ described by Dr Herbert Benson of the Harvard Medical School.

CAN FAITH HEAL

Researchers are investigating whether the prayers of others can heal. Dr Byrd divided 393 patients into two groups. One was prayed for by people around the country; the other did not receive prayers from study participants. Patients did not know to which group they belonged. The group that was prayed for experienced fewer complications, fewer cases of pneumonia, fewer cardiac arrests, less congestive heart failure and needed fewer antibiotics.

According to Google " According to google Faith is " faith healing, recourse to divine power to cure mental or physical disabilities, either in conjunction with orthodox medical care or in place of it. Often an intermediary is involved, whose intercession may be all-important in effecting the desired cure " .

 

DOCTORS AS BELIEVERS

Dr Dosse became so convinced of the faith he had himself, that he began to have faith privately for his patients. And yet health care institutions are beginning to pay attention to the Faith-Health  connection.

According to National Library of Medicine

Faith healing is a method of treating illnesses through faith rather than medical methods. Faith healing is usually practiced through prayers to gods and deities. All religions have their own faith healing practices.[1] Believers in faith healing believed that the healing of disease and disability can be brought about by religious faith through prayer or other rituals that can stimulate a divine presence and power.[2] Faith healing refers to terminate an illness or a debilitating physical condition through supernatural means such as the power of prayer or a Godly intervention through a miracle.”[3]

Various different techniques such as prayer and other divine interventions of an individual healer can cure illness and it has been popular throughout history.[4] Most indigenous healers treat a range of illnesses based on specific cultural conceptualizations of ill health.[5] There are different types of indigenous healers. Addy ME described the categories of healers as consisting of those who use herbs, those who use spiritual psychicism, and those who combine these methods.[6] Health seeking in many African countries typically involves making use of multiple healing systems, including indigenous and faith systems as well as biomedical healthcare systems.Faith healing applies to divine power to cure mental or physical disabilities. Sometimes, their faith may reside in a particular place, which then becomes the focus of pilgrimages for the sufferers.[8] Faith healers and temple doctors are by far the most socially acceptable way to try to cure mental illness in India, mentions one article. There are hardly any psychiatrists and a mere 37 mental institutions to serve the country's whole population of 1.2 billion, as mentioned in an article in 2010.

Considering the holistic concept of healing, the patient's preferences and essential requests for faith healing should be at the core of the care process with active involvement as the evidence of relationship between faith, spirituality and health is emerging with proof of effectiveness of faith healing practices.

In field practice area, it was noticed many a times that the patients took treatment from some local health provider and on asking the disclosed providers used to be the faith healers, so this study was planned where the faith healers were interviewed in detail regarding the conditions for which they provide treatment and to have a dialogue with them to convey our message to them for integration in terms of referral to the centre in time.

 

 

TO CONCLUDE

So what does this mean for to average person ? . it does not mean adding worship to the list of healthy things you can do . You can’t adopt faith as you would a low fat diet .

What you can o is speak up if you’re facing illness or surgery and would like your belief to be part of your health care .

Faith

Faith, koenih maintains . “ offers people some control over their lives as opposed to just depending on a medical profession that’s becoming more distant and mechanized every day.