PS I THINK WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IS CALLED REIKI. IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN A MEMBER HERE IS PRACTISING THAT. MAYBE SHE CAN GIVE YOU MORE INFO.

well ya even hypochondriacs can kill themselves by believing they are sick

MIND OVER MATTER. AS SIMPLE OR COMPLICATED AS ONE WANTS IT TO BE.

Most documented cases involving healing hands are generally found in the medical community.

The ability to heal another person is a power of mages that have studied the arts for sometime. I have not recently heard of anyone who has the ability but I have heard of instances in the past.

1493 Four sailors were severely injured when their cannon exploded early. They were sent to the ships surgeon for help. Two days later they were back on duty with no recollection of the injuries and only vague memories of the surgeon with green hands.

1918 Two infantry soldiers were dosed with mustard gas. Normally this is a fatal gas but the first soldier claimed that his foxhole mate had shielded the two of them with green light. The mustard gas had destroyed all the foxholes around them but they were spared. They both fought till the end of the war.

Those are the only instances I know of. One of which is from Army Archives about WWI and its history. You figure if they are true.

Wow, thanks for the great response. I love to get people talking.
So is there really no one saying they believe that simply by touching someone you can cure their immediate pain and with a bit more time heal them???

Pain is something that one learns to live with. A direct touch to heal someone would be in the realm of the creator. If someone today had healing touch I would assume that they would go into medicine just to hide it from general view.