Word study
A study of the Greek words pharmakeia (Strong's 5331) and pharmakeus (Strong's 5332).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance:
"5331. pharmakeia ... from 5332; medication ('pharmacy'), i.e. (by extension) magic (literal or figurative)."
"5332. pharmakeus ... from pharmakon, (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion); a druggist ('pharmacist') or poisoner, i.e. (by extension) a magician."
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary:
"pharmaceutical ... from Greek pharmakeutikos ... a medicinal drug."
"pharmaco- ... Greek pharmako-, from pharmakon ... medicine : drug."
"pharmacology ... the science of drugs."
"pharmacy ... from Greek pharmakeia ... the art or practice of preparing, preserving, compounding, and dispensing drugs ... a place where medicines are compounded or dispensed ... DRUGSTORE."
http://www.topical-bible-studies.org/13-0018.htm
pharmacy - c.1386, "a medicine," from O.Fr. farmacie, from M.L. pharmacia, from Gk. pharmakeia "use of drugs or medicines," from pharmakeus "preparer of drugs," from pharmakon "drug, poison, philter, charm, spell, enchantment." Meaning "use or administration of drugs" is attested from c.1400; that of "place where drugs are prepared and dispensed" is first recorded 1833. Pharmacist coined in Eng. 1834.
pharmaceutical - 1648 (pharmaceutic in the same sense is from 1541), from L. pharmaceuticus "of drugs," from Gk. pharmakeutikos, from pharmakeus "preparer of drugs, poisoner," from pharmakon "medicine, poison." Pharmacology is attested from 1721, formed in Mod.L. (1683) with Gk. -logia "dealing with the topic of."
http://www.etymonline.com/p5etym.htm
· The Greek word pharmakeus is a "druggist or poisoner". This Greek word translates as sorceries in Revelation 9:21, and sorcerers in Revelation 21:8 &22:15. (9:21) "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. (21:8) " But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (22:15) "For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." This Greek word (pharmakeus) has a root (pharmakon) meaning "a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion"
http://www.holybiblesays.org/articles/drugs.htm
My wife's mother has been addicted to pain pills and Valiums for the past 20 years. The doctors just keep on giving them to her. This is the secular side.
This is the non-secular side
http://www.jesus-christ-forums.com/home/viewtopic.php?t=2238
Back to the secular side
If we go back in time 2500 years ago we had the local aka doctor mixing who knows what together killing most of his patients. Herb medicine is good and there is nothing wrong with it to a point but the majority of it is basically just voodoo science like when they use to bleed people when they was sick. There was also the cupping side
http://www.web-ministry.com/linear.php?postID=9593
Now there is the propaganda side. This is not what God meant.
But people take this concept and twist it into Garbage.
So in Galations 5:20, Paul is telling us that those who use chemical potions (such as aspirin or Tylenol) to cure diseases or disease symptoms are accursed of God.
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/wicca1132/ ... ition.html
Does all of this better explain it?