Miraculous acts and events are as old as humankind itself. Thousand year old records from all the great civilizations tell of deities, spirits, humans and even animals that somehow defied logic and the laws of nature to accomplish something that was deemed utterly impossible. This is especially true for the field of medicine. There are numerous accounts of sick people that were told that they are terminally ill, only to recover completely. Stories of medical miracles abound to this day.

Miraculous recoveries have long been the subject of intense debate between various parties. While nobody will deny the fact that some people recover from diseases where their physicians have given up hope there is nevertheless differences of opinion on how such recoveries occurred. Some argue that the human body remains a mystery and that recovery in some cases are not miraculous but due to extraordinary resilience.

It is only natural to expect that people diagnosed with terminal or debilitating illnesses will seek out solutions. Most people will immediately conduct studies on their own conditions and in many cases they will come across a huge number of opinions on how their specific problem can be sorted out in an alternative manner. Some go the route of spiritual treatment.

Many miraculous cures are nature based. A variety of people, including medical experts, patients themselves and nutrition experts extol the virtues of specific herbs and foods that are said to have a substantial influence on the progress of the disease in question. Unfortunately, medical science does not always support such curative qualities and this may cause confusion and conflict in the minds of the patients concerned.

It is ironic, or perhaps obvious, that so many people that profess to be in special contact with God or other deities claim to be their exclusive earthly instruments on earth when it comes to curing disease and other ailments. In fact, faith healing has become a huge industry and many people have found, mostly to their detriment, that they have become the victims of a charlatan.

It is surprising to learn just how many ill people turn to alternative healing processes once they learn and accept that they are ill. Many will turn to religion, hoping for a miracle. Others will dedicate their lives to charitable causes, believing that they can gain favor with the deities or the spirits that are in control of the ether. Others promise to change their lives if only they will get better.

Of course, skeptics say that miraculous healings have nothing to do with magic, religion or any other supernatural factor. They say that human knowledge is incomplete and that inexplicable results are common and that the only reason why it cannot be explained logically is because human knowledge is incomplete. Too few clinical or empirical studies have been done about such miraculous healings.

Stories of medical miracles certainly abound and there are many websites that allow people to relate their own personal experiences. Whether there are truly miracles or not is most certainly still an issue for debate. However, those that have experienced bona fide cures will swear that they were recipients of miraculous intervention.