Medical Miracle

The results were amazing as...
• Those prayed for were five times less likely to
require antibiotics;
• They were three times less likely to develop
pulmonary edema, a condition in which the
lungs fill with fluid;
• None of those prayed for required the insertion
of an artificial airway in the throat, compared
with twelve in the control group who
required the treatment;
• Those prayed for experienced fewer cases of
pneumonia and cardiopulmonary arrests;
• Fewer patients in the prayed-for group died.
That study, and others like it, confirms what
spiritual teachers and people of faith have known
across the ages, namely, that prayer is effective
where there is illness and disease. “As a physician,
I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed,
lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene
effort of prayer,” writes Alexis Carrel, M.D., winner
of the 1912 Nobel prize for Medicine.
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