What medicine did Jesus use in healing the sick?

"Scientists have identified a gene that causes about one in 25,000 babies to be born deaf, and they hope the discovery will lead to new treatments. A protein called CIB2 is mutated in babies born with Usher syndrome type 1, who are profoundly deaf from birth and often cannot be helped by hearing aids." 
I happened to come across this article a couple of days ago and I had to stop and think about it for a moment - first of all, I marveled at the geniuses who made the discovery, then I also thought about the advances in the medical field as a whole. We have come a long way from the government dispensaries of my childhood where every disease was treated with either a red or white colored solution kept in big glass jars. It seems like every time the medicine gets an upper hand on diseases, something new pops up in the air that make the scientists scratch their head again. Then I remembered, "...'Ephphatha!' ("Be opened") And immediately the man's ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly" (Mark 7:34,35). Jesus said "be opened", not "mutated CIB2".

Mutation is defined as a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a gene or a chromosome. Scientists were initially all over mutation. Evolution absolutely depends on mutations, this is the only way that new alleles and new regulatory regions are created. Mutation is the raw material of evolution. But this also seems paradoxical because most of the mutations are harmful, neutral or affect a single protein product while much evolutionary change involves myriad structural and functional changes in the phenotype. (from, Kimball's Biology pages). In short, mutation turned out to be not a good thing after all, it has the power and ability to turn human being into something not so human over a period of time. 

When looking at mutation through a Christian perspective, one can easily conclude that God never intended mutation to occur in humans, "God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good" (Genesis 1:31). So God made everything including humans and liked the way they looked, therefore no need for Him to change it. If mutation was not in God's plan, then the only alternative is to look at the other side of the coin; could the devil be responsible, does the introduction of sin has anything to do with it? I believe the Medicine Man Himself has the answer for this question, it's in the method He used to heal the sick. "When it was evening, they brought him many who were possessed by demons, and he drove out the spirits by a word and cured all the sick" (Matthew 8:16). Notice that it says "all the sick", not "some of the sick"; when Jesus expelled the demons from those people, they were all healed and the mutations were gone from their body. Through sins, we allowed satan to change our bodily characteristics by implanting mutations through demonic mediums. 

While associating Jesus' healings with casting out demons, often we fail to see the medicine He uses in His 'practice'. "'Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins' - he said to the man who was paralyzed, 'I say to you, rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home'" (Luke 5:23,24). Jesus uses FORGIVENESS to heal - to mend the spiritual and the physical wounds of the fallen. When our sins are forgiven, our body and soul are restored back to the divine image in which it was created, "And be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created in God's way in righteousness and holiness of truth" (Ephesians 4:23,24).

Jesus talked a lot about forgiveness in His teachings because, apart from the original sin which we inherit, the root cause of all other sins can be traced back to anger, resentment and indignation. A minor aggravation, if left alone, can mutate itself to a much bigger aggravation over a period of time, changing the original characteristic of the annoyance, causing the bearer to be in pain, to be suffering and to be sick. In this state of being ill, we would not be able to approach our Creator, God our Father, for help. This is why He sent His only Son to us, to deliver us from our sins, to reconcile us with Him, "He was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, Upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed" (Isaiah 53:5). Absolute forgiveness to our neighbors - spouses, kids, parents, family, friends, co-workers and enemies - is an absolute necessity for us to offer our sins and sickness to Jesus Christ,"If you bring your offering to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your offering there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and present your offering" (Matthew 5:23,24). 

Our unwillingness to forgive others is keeping us away from reaping the rewards Jesus Christ has earned for us by dying on the cross. Our anger and resentment are keeping Jesus from fulfilling the last spoken words of Him here on earth, "They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover"(Mark 16:18). Our anger and resentment has mutated itself into so many other forms and has a continuous effect on everything we think, every decision we make and everything we do or don't do; I learned it the hard way, and I am still learning it. I learned that the anger and resentment that we immediately identify in our lives is nothing more than the tip of an iceberg, with majority of it under water hidden from our vision.

As human beings, we are not created to be suffering here on earth. He created us in His own image, meaning there were no imperfections or diseases in us at the time of creation. We are the apple of our Creator's eye, we are created to enjoy everything He has created, "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth" (Genesis 1:28). God wanted us to have authority over everything He created, but listen to satan talking to Jesus, "Then he took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a single instant. The devil said to him, "I shall give to you all this power and their glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I may give it to whomever I wish. All this will be yours, if you worship me" (Luke 4:5-7). We handed over to satan what our Father has created and given to us; through sin, we are allowing him to take over all of our Father's beautiful creations including the most beautiful of them all, ourselves. But Jesus, by paying for our sins with His blood, has already taken everything back from satan. All we need to do is to make a claim for what is rightfully ours, by accepting Jesus Christ as the Savior and Redeemer, by following His teachings, by forgiving others, by repenting, and by spreading the gospel by living it.

"Forgive your neighbor's injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. Should a man nourish anger against his fellows and expect healing from the LORD? Should a man refuse mercy to his fellows, yet seek pardon for his own sins?" (Sirach 28:2-4)