Healing and medicine. People’s reasons for turning to healers for help for thousands of years.

   Healing was integral to folk medicine in early periods of human progress. It was considered an obscure thing and attributed to witchcraft and magic. It was thought that healers were gifted with curing abilities.
 
   At the core, the nature is curative itself and provides people with all its gifts to remediate their bodies. Healers know the same perfectly well and use all these remedies. In the narrow sense of this word, the healer is a doctor who applies herbs, incantations and water treatment combined with various rites for therapeutic purposes.
 
   Healing takes its origin from pre-Christian cults. At first it was an elementary treatment of diseases. But with human progress healing also underwent a kind of evolution.
 
    Initially healing was under the influence of religious medicine, which essence was the belief in diseases coming of evil spirits. With the progress of class society healers started acting in the interests of religious groups. Gradually healing grew into a craft and then became a profession. It is natural that the substance, types and methods of healing underwent changes in the course of advancing. There are lots and lots of tendencies in the modern healing depending on territorial or national peculiarities as well as on traditions, an extent of the religious prejudice influence and a general developmental level.
 
    At present healing is a kind of alternative medicine, and а healer is not just a doctor who treats a diseased organ but is also a curer who remediates a person’s body and the whole biofield by exercising specific methods.
 
    Modern healing is based not only on methods to recover a person from illnesses but also to revive his energy field.
    Healing is widespread in the countryside to the most extent. But it is worthy of note that healing is also very much in evidence in big cities and nowadays a sick person can expect to secure knowledgeable assistance of a professional healer.  

    Healing with medicinal herbs and plants, vulnerary rootlets, berries, mushrooms, bushes and trees forms the mainstay of folk medicine. Healers know what’s what when it comes to curative properties of nature to ensure a beneficial influence upon a person’s body and health. The medication is everything growing naturally and having curative abilities. At all times healers realized that there was no other way but only to apply that practically for treatment of people.

    At times of intensive progress and advanced technologies people often tend to neglect their health and environmental conditions leave much to be desired. Many drug plants have vanished from the face of the earth and other ones have come into existence. But as for those species of medicinal herbs that have survived to our days, they have not denatured their curative properties and effect upon people and keep on growing in their original curative state.
 
    A modern healer is a specialist in curing with vulnerary plants and natural products. All methods practiced by a healer are based on the centuries-long experience of folk healing combined with modern researches. The rest techniques are of auxiliary character. It often happens that healing with herbs takes a long time but it is the most efficient way as compared to treatment with chemical pharma drugs. Healers use mainly naturally occurring and well-known medicinal herbs, rootlets, grasses and cereals, parts of trees, mushrooms and other plants and natural substances, which are hand-picked by a healer himself. The procedure of healing is rather tedious and a healer shall have enough patience and certain skills for that. In case the healing is administered properly, even chronic diseases get cured.
 
     It is not for nothing that there are six stages of medicine development.
 
    Healer:
2000 BC – Here is this rootlet. Eat it!
1000 AD – These rootlets are the witchcraft! Say a prayer!
1850 AD – These prayers are an absurd superstition! Drink this syrup!
1940 AD – These syrups are a common quackery! Take this pill!
1985 AD – These pills are not efficient! Take this antibiotic!
2000 AD – These antibiotics are human-made! Here is this rootlet. Eat it!

     There are none too many professional folk healers at the moment. Nowadays doctors remediate mainly a human body whereas modern healers administer not only expectant treatment but also combination and systematic therapy. Herbal treatment in not habit-forming and is chosen individually according to a person’s health state. Folk medicine is extensive and its practices have moulded for thousands of years.
     As for the old school of treatment, each of us knows perfectly well that diseases intergrade, chemical drugs often have addictive properties and antibiotics cure one thing and cripple another.

                                                                                                                                           One way or another, it is up to a person only to choose a kind of medicine to turn to.