Taking medicine is the ill people’s first chioce.

[littlefisherman]

Mr. Li Hongzhi said:
Taking medicine while practicing Falun Gong mean not believing that Falun Gong is able to cure illness. If you believe, why do you need to take medicine?
I tell you, if one of our practitioners has some bodily discomfort, it is not disease. Disease is a manifestation of “sin,” and hospitals are unable to get rid of your sin.
Wars, plague and natural and man-made disasters are ways to get rid of human sin.
More than two million Falun Gong practitioners in China were convince by Li Hongzhi’s words. They did not see a doctor or take medicine when ill, which caused more than 1,400 deaths.
facts.org.cn/QandA/200711/t71300.htm

Most falun gong practitioners began to practise falun gong in order to get rid of their illness. They wanted to make them stronger and healthier, not seeking the pursuiting of nivana. But later and later, some of them did not want to seek medical treatment even when they are seriously ill, which caused them dying or death. It is the hospital’s duty to get rid of illness, so people should not always believe the so called “sin” when they are ill. Taking medicine is their first choice.

 

[Gloria1]

I don’t know much about that religion but as a christian, I do go to the hospital and I do take medicine anytime I’m sick because that is the ‘most’ sensible thing to do. God said we should eat the fruits and use the leafs and the seeds to cure diseases.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Sirach is a much neglected book of the Bible. It offers extensive wisdom on how to live.

1 Honor the physician with the honor due him, * according to your need of him, for the Lord created him; 2 for healing comes from the Most High, and he will receive a gift from the king. 3 The skill of the physician lifts up his head, and in the presence of great men he is admired. 4 The Lord created medicines from the earth, and a sensible man will not despise them. 5 Was not water made sweet with a tree in order that his* power might be known? 6 And he gave skill to men that he* might be glorified in his marvelous works. 7 By them he heals and takes away pain; 8 the pharmacist makes of them a compound. His works will never be finished; and from him health* is upon the face of the earth. 9 My son, when you are sick do not be negligent, but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you. 10 Give up your faults and direct your hands aright, and cleanse your heart from all sin. 11 Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice, and a memorial portion of fine flour, and pour oil on your offering, as much as you can afford. * 12 And give the physician his place, for the Lord created him; let him not leave you, for there is need of him. 13 There is a time when success lies in the hands of physicians, * 14 for they too will pray to the Lord that he should grant them success in diagnosis* and in healing, for the sake of preserving life. 15 He who sins before his Maker, may he fall into the care* of a physician.

Sirach 38:1-15