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| Being non religious, I was against the idea of | | | | I don’t know what the miracle happened in |
| prayer and meditation until I reached the | | | | with the man who suffered from cancer. |
| profession of clinical medicine. | | | | However, maximum cure rate (24/34) was for |
| During my internship period, once, when I was in | | | | pain, and without much strain (only two web |
| casualty, I remember, people rushed in with a | | | | searches and three reference books) I could find |
| saint (monk) who has just suffered a traffic | | | | the reason. It is Endorphin !! |
| accident. A car run over his left leg, shearing the | | | | Endorphin is a chemical secreted in our brain (at |
| flesh and breaking the bones !! I could see his legs | | | | anterior pituitary and hypothalamus). It is almost |
| hanging out from his body as if it is tied to it with | | | | similar to the narcotic drug morphine, but 200 |
| only a ribbon of skin and flesh! | | | | times more potent than it. |
| But, to my surprise, his face!……it was smiling | | | | Endorphin is the most potent of all the pain killers |
| !!…..as if nothing has happened. He told me | | | | !!. It is secreted in more amounts when we pray |
| “hey, doc…I don’t want your injections. I | | | | or meditate. (In that sense we can call it as the |
| have already healed myself” he rose his head | | | | “God hormone”, I am sorry). Endorphin |
| a little,looked up and continued “I prayed and | | | | act at the same site morphine do (opioid |
| he took my pain away” !! We (the hospital) | | | | receptor) and block pain signals. |
| could not save him, but he could “save” | | | | Like the morphine, endorphin too.. |
| his smile until the last breath… | | | | - Calm your mind |
| Thereafter, during my pre-rounds I used to ask | | | | - Lower your blood pressure |
| patients “do you pray? does it give you any | | | | - Help you sleep better |
| relief ?” | | | | - Boost your immunity (may be this is how it |
| I have met 34 such people who had significant | | | | beat cancer) |
| relief from prayers. I have made a mini statistic | | | | - And many more… |
| work with the data (the religion and name of god | | | | |
| is not taken in to consideration) :). It was like this, | | | | |
| Illness healed by prayer | | | | NB: Morphine being 200 times weaker than |
| No of patients | | | | endorphin, but “travel through same road” |
| Pain (chronic headache, neuralgia etc) | | | | of endorphin it will create “traffic blocks” |
| 24 | | | | and affect the normal action of endorphin. So, |
| Sleeplessness | | | | using morphine will cause serious physical, mental |
| 4 | | | | and “spiritual” side effects. Morphine is not |
| Blood pressure | | | | an alternative to prayer and meditation. But there |
| 3 | | | | are working alternatives to prayer that can |
| Mental illness | | | | stimulate your endorphin secretion, that I will tell |
| 2 | | | | you later !! |
| Cancer | | | | |