Where can i find research on the effects of faith on medical healing?

i know some studies were done...about religious people vs. nonreligious people being healed

Where can i find research on the effects of faith on medical healing?
try a google search
Reply:its call the Placebo effect...when people think they're actually going to be healed it sometimes might happen. The power of mind over matter...
Reply:you know what...i can give a scientific explanation that will not block out the spiritual aspect of it (i am very spiritual myself). the human body is a very complex thing. they often say that when your brain believes something it will act on your body,psychosematic symptoms (spelling ?). it has been said that when your brain believes something your body reacts to it. for example, a person could read a book on a certain disease which has symptoms of various other diseases. they may develop a symptom like sneezing and autmoatically think its the flu instead of allergies or the common cold. this person will begin to believe it so much that their brain will send messages to the body and they will develop more flu like symptoms. its like your brain produces a certian type of chemical i believe that is produced when certain thoughts take place. there is also such thing as psychosematic (spelling ?) pregnancies where a woman will believe so much that she is pregnant she will miss periods and her stomach may even begin to inflate. i know of a person this has happened to.


Now when it comes to faith, that is beliefe. if you truly believe that God will heal he will with your mind, along with your heart, is believing it. but you have to have faith in order for God to work with you anyway. anytime you accept something it works through you. no matter what. if its negative energy or positive energy. your medical healing procedures will be open to their full affect because your body will receive the benefits of your medicine better with the positive influence of your beliefe in God. in a lot of countries they believe that in order for something to have an affect on you, you have to believe in it.
Reply:I think there's even a wikipedia article mentioning it. The most recent studies I'm aware of sugguested that there's no connection between people praying for you (even accounting for placebo effects), though that's actually more along the lines of how it works with preventing major complications in surgery.





Technically, the data showed prayer HURT subjects, but the results are likely not statistically significant.
Reply:There are prayer studies. It was pretty even. Just slightly lower recovery rate for people that knew they were being prayed for compared to no prayer and praye but not knowing.





Same thing ThCallMeTomu read I'm sure. Same info
Reply:THere is quite a lot of books out there. Go to the new age section and look for some book written by cancer survivors etc. The religious part of all good book stores will have a lot of infoprmation as well. Good luck
Reply:look up reaserch done by the Catholic Church. Im sure theres tons.





God bless,


Shane
Reply:many right-wing whack-job hate websites have that cult garbage posted on them!
Reply:I read a book by a catholic priest about 30 years ago, where he had did a study where the nuns would pray for some of the patents and not for the others, the results were amazing, but all i can remember about his name was father Michael.


P.S. I am not catholic.
Reply:there is none and to think so is crazy
Reply:Try the New England Journal of Medicine. Doctors are studying this more now.
Reply:Newsweek published an excellent article on this subject. (Faith %26amp; Healing: Can religion improve health? While the debate rages in journals and med schools, more Americans ask for doctors’ prayers)





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