Prayer When Taking Medicine

Great God! Thou seest my condition; for nothing is hidden from Thine all-seeing eye. The darkest places are light to Thee. Thou seest my sick bed, and knowest how I feel, my God, I will use the prescribed medicine in Thy name: but my only hope is in Thee; for Thou art the Lord, our Physician. Nevertheless since Thou lettest the herbs grow out of the earth, and hast Thyself created the means which are used as medicine to restore men to health, I will now, with a heart-felt calling upon Thy name and with prayer, use the medicine. Do Thou Thyself add Thy blessing to it. I know, indeed, that Thou canst help and heal without medicine; for Thou needest but to speak the word, and the sick become well; Thou needest only to nod, and disease flees. But since Thou hast commanded us to use means, I will obey, and employ them; and I pray Thee, O mighty God, to bless the medicine which I now take in Thy name and in firm reliance on Thee. Let it be the means of restoring me to health, of soothing my pain, and of strengthening me in my weakness. If Thou addest Thy blessing, the most insignificant herb may help me. I do not take the medicine for the purpose of compelling my health to return, but as a means which Thou hast permitted me to use for regaining my health from Thy gracious hand. I lift up my eyes to heaven when I take the medicine into my hand. I pray to Thee before I take it, while I take it, and after I take it. If Thou wilt now let it benefit me, I shall be restored; for my days are in Thy hands. Without Thy blessing nothing can succeed. Therefore I cry to Thee for Thy blessing. What Thou blessest is blessed forever. If Thou wilt let this medicine be the means of curing me, I will, indeed, give Thee thanks for it; but I will also remember that not the medicine in itself, but Thy grace has preserved me, and Thy hand has healed me; and, with Hezekiah of old, I will spread abroad Thy praise among all men. Amen.