Faith healing is also known as spiritual healing and deals with using faith as a form of treatment to patients. This often goes hand in hand with those that refuse traditional treatments and procedures for illnesses and conditions.

Those that have been supposedly gifted with the power of healing predominantly do faith healing. These people may be priests, monks, clairvoyants etc. there are also people that believe that faith healing is the only option to them as they either have been raised to believe so or they have exhausted all traditional options.

Some followers of faith healing do not necessarily only believe in this and think that medical treatment can compliment spiritual healing too. On the other hand, there are healers and followers that believe that those who believe in traditional medical methods are going against the faith and therefore should not undertake faith healing.

The term ‘faith healing’ is somewhat connected to Christian Science and the religion shows a history of this. Some believe that there is a law of god that healers can connect to therefore helping to heal patients from diseases, sometimes incurable.

There are registered practices and governing bodies that promote the use of faith healing in British and Commonwealth countries. Faith healing can include things like meditation or religious practices whereas spiritual healing can include things like reiki, therapeutic touch and many other types of practice.

There has been aloof criticism against faith healing and its practices. Many argue that there is no scientific proof that this type of treatment actually can help cure otherwise incurable diseases. It is also known that faith healing can be used as an entertainment weapon especially on TV shows where the audience is made to believe that miracles happen whereas in reality it is just an elaborate stage act.

There is also an ethical criticism aspect to faith healing whereby parents who truly believe in it would refuse their children traditional types of medication in favor of faith healing. They believe, in some countries that their rights to express their own beliefs in this treatment are often suffocated by the fact they have to follow traditional medical approaches. Critics argue that faith healing shows no more benefits that any other type of alternative treatment and should be taken with precaution and only after careful research is undertaken and a consultation with a registered doctor or physician has taken place.