Médecine médiévale

Is a non medical medicine conceivable in our vision of the world? No if we if we stick to paradigm of reason and science  Yes if we renew with an active and operative sense of sacred. Indeed, at the origin of Christian thought, salvation and health are two interchangeable words, both included in the Greek word  "soteria". According to Cyrille Pelard, the Christ presents himself to us as a great Therapist to save us, heal us, resurrect us. He shows us the example because the "therapist" is the one who, first, leads to God: from this reorientation of being stem health and well-being.

Christianism is universal project of unction. Indeed the Christ himself is an "oiled" according to the etymology of the word. He is the one who receives the Father's unction and gives it back by its crushing on a cross, like a seed or an oleaginous fruit.   From this love sap which pours out, a new spring is born, regenerated humanity by Christlike graft, old Adam's resurrection potantiated. Churches, from the 5th century, put in place Saint-Oils tradition in a sacramental way perspective.  All spiritual life's sacraments of the Christian requires, at some points, the use rite of these precious holy Oils (catechumen oil, sick oil, Chrism).  Olive oil was the Saint-Spirit's traditional guiding and the visible marker of invisible action on the body of the recipients. Continuously essential oils were added to oily substratum for their odorous and therapeutic virtues.