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Sometimes we mistake spirituality for religion we take it to be the activities we do or practice in our various religious background.
Looking closely I discovered spirituality is something that reside in an individual, that's it's an individual stuff and must not be related to any religion as the religion only serve as a backbone to support our spirituality and as we all know every religion have their ways of practicing their spirituality but never tye less it has to come from individual as these act of spirituality is an in built stuff.
Talking about medicine , we generalize it to be stuffs or supplement taken to cure certain Ailments encountered.
So every supplements taken for r the purpose of treatment is classified as medicine, it can either be herbal or processed drugs.
Relating spirituality to medicine is talking of making things work through medication and spirituality for effective result.
All medicine works in response to the spirituality given out while giving or talking drugs.
For the fact that a scientist discovered a drug for the cure of malaria, places his instinct on the spirit that lead him into researching and mixing all combination gotten from the research which it's end result will be a medicine to cure maleria. All the processes that this scientist went through believing it will cure malaria at the end of the day is what we calk spirituality.
The primitive age made give medicine strictly out of spirituality as it has to do with the combination of herbs.
I sat to ask my self tgis question.
Gow do this people get to discover most herbs and how do they manage to relate it to th treatment of specific illment, as at that time there was no machine to run test to know some of the features these herbs posses.
All this has to do with spirituality as their instinct always tell them wether to use those herbs or not.
This doesn't only apply to those who gives out medicine but it also applicable to those at the receiving end. Anybody who risk taking something he knows nothing about as a result of sickness also has to involve spirituality as your instincts will tell you wether to or not to take what ever is given to you as medicine, this is an act of spirituality.
In regards to this the Christians will call such act faith, they believe that it's that faith that heals not tye medicine but one question goes again why take the drugs when you know the faith can work alone?
So the both work together in the Christiandom . I can't relate with ither religion as i am not a practitioner of those religion.
But trust me medicine and spirituality gives balance in the treatment of every illment