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Faith-healing or alternative healing is kind of hard to measure. It's almost always in conjunction with evidence based treatment and it's not all that uncommon for people to pull through even if their doctors are skeptical. Thus, it's hard to make a case that it was the prayer or alternative medicine aspect that cured the patient or whether it was natural with conventional healing. A true test would be the case of an amputee. If somebody's limb grew back miraculously due to prayer then that would be a very strong case for faith-based healing having some real world curative value. Faith does , however, offer patients some psychological positivity in a bad situation. It's been shown that having an optimistic state of mind does have some effect on accelerating the healing process ( but it doesn't cure cancer).
The term "faith" necessarily refers to the unproveable. If it was observable through evidence it wouldn't be called "faith" it would be called "science".