Buddhism - Healing 1/2

Life is up and down. And when one is down, trapped in grief, sorrow, and hopelessness, he/she finds it hard to move on at least at that moment. So he/she usually needs spiritual support and guidance ti get up back to normal life. In our society, some people would go to pagoda. Monk would then do some chanting in Pali, which is not understood by common peoople, and give "Sroch Tek".

So my question is: Does our Buddishm give any spiritual motivation/guidance when people are really down?

1 - I don't know if you call it Buddhism or not (which dimension?), since monks are the army of Buddha. Anyway, YES, like Sophal, I do see selective monks provide effective healing. I am also client of selective monks for sroach-teuk, sot-mon when I need healing. While Sophal's caution is worth considering, we should acknowledge that together with other healing providers such as fortune teller, Krou here and there, massage therapy, ... achars' and monks' healing constitutes the integral part of the Cambodian healing system. The advanced countries have more diverse healing support such as modern medication, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, traditional medication, and spiritual support for healing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, etc. There are also some advocate groups who help people dealing with specific difficult situation in life.

2 - I know that Buddhism helps people develop awareness about anicha and acceptance of the situation when life is up and down. Since, anicha is a Dhamma, a natural law, a universal truth, everything evolves in accordance to this law and we have to accept it. Please note that denial, non-acceptance, resistance creates more sufferings. When you are aware of the situation and accept it, you remove at least half of your suffering. For example, when applying the medical injection, the child who cries, agitates and needs his parent to hold him firmly must be more painful than the one who accepts the injection without reaction. The first one has two pains, body and emotion, while the second one has only the pain in his body. Please also note that true awareness of anicha must be developed in your inner mind, sub-conscious level through the practice of mediation and not at your superficial level (intellectual knowledge).

3 - I understand that high level meditators do have the healing power generated from his/her metta, compassion, loving kindness. Sometimes, the loss, the grief, the suffering is overwhelming until people become unbearable despite their level of awareness. Then, they need to go to seek the support from the highly developed meditator. A simple in-person meeting, discussion, advice, or pray provides a faster relief.

4 - I don't know if Buddha had made any miracle in changing life of people like Jesus Christ who had made the blind to be able to see, the amputees to be able to walk. In one extreme, in the most depressed situation of losses, hopeless like Badacha, Buddha brought her to the awareness with his kind words of metta. Then, Badacha had to practice meditation and developed her knowledge of Dhamma with senior Buddhist fellows. She relieved from depression and became a highly developed Buddhist followers because of her efforts, awareness, and acceptance of the situation. In the other extreme, in the most emotional anger and revenge like Angulimea, Buddha brought him to the awareness with his words of metta, then Angulimea learnt Dhamma, practiced mediation, and became a well respected monk.

5 - I don't know if Buddhism has any scripts about healing, remedy like Ayurveda in Hinduism.