Volume 66 Number 2 March 1999	back to contents

Complementary Therapies and Traditional Judaism	102 - 105
Fred Rosner, M.D.
Address correspondence to Fred Rosner, M.D., F.A.C.P., Queens Hospital Center, 82-68 164th Street, Jamaica, NY 11432.

ABSTRACT
In Jewish tradition, physicians are obligated to heal the sick and patients are obligated to seek healing from physicians. Judaism also sanctions certain complementary therapies such as prayers, faith healing, and amulets, when used as supplements to traditional medical therapy. Confidence in the healing powers of God through prayer and contrition is encouraged, provided that the patient uses prayer alongside traditional scientific medicine, not as a substitute for it.

KEY WORDS
Prayers, faith healing, amulets, nostrums, quackery

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