A. God's healing vs. doctors & medicines:

2CH 16:12. And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

2CH 16:13. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

PSA 118:8. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

JER 46:11. Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

MAR 5:25. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,

MAR 5:26. And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

HOS 5:13. When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

B. Sometimes doctors & medicines can help:

PRO 17:22. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

LUK 10:34. And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

C. God-ordained natural remedies:

2KI 20:1. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

2KI 20:2. Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,

2KI 20:3. I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

2KI 20:4. And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

2KI 20:5. Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

2KI 20:6. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

2KI 20:7. And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

ISA 38:21. For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

JER 51:8. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

EZE 47:12. And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

1TI 5:23. Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

D. Eat wholesome nourishing food: