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In pain, they seek cure from God
Faith healing helps, some patients say

BY NIRAJ WARIKOO • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • April 26, 2009

http://www.freep.com/article/2009042...622/1001/rss01

When Larry Saleski entered St. Augustine and St. Monica Church in Detroit on a recent Sunday, he was shaking from Parkinson's disease.

By the time he walked out hours later after a faith healing, the 72-year-old Wyandotte man said it had stopped.

Was Saleski touched by God's spirit?



• HEALING OR HOCUS-POCUS? Detroit area reaches for faith

[paula_w]

Faith healing is either a true miracle or a very good example of placebo effect. I wonder if studies have been done on the longetivity of faith healings.

paula

[Stitcher]

Just one more topic where the proof may never be found...

DOES FAITH CONTRIBUTE TO HEALING? SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR A CORRELATION BETWEEN SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-75479513.html

http://www.highbeam.com/Search.aspx?...+faith+healing

Medical Proof of the Miraculous - Clinical Study
By E. Le Bec
http://books.google.com/books?id=N8nKmm8nkHYC

Effect of belief in “psychic healing” on self-reported pain in chronic pain sufferers
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Volume 60, Issue 1, Pages 59-61
M. Lyvers, N. Barling, J. Harding-Clark
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retri...2239990500190X

[reverett123]

Whether the doctor in a white coat or a priest in a dark robe - faith can heal and it can kill (witness Vodun, voodoo). Belief matters. When I was six I had several warts on my hands. My old granma performed a ritual involving rubbing them with a bean which was then buried beneath the eaves of her house with a small wooden stake holding it down. Done in a very solemn manner by someone I believed in, the warts were gone in 48 hours. Mumbo jumbo? It worked.

Obviously, not everything can be handled this way any more than everything can be handled with modern medicine. But every disease has a component that can respond to faith, both positively and negatively.