龍舒增廣淨土文 12.7

12.7

又問曰：求醫服藥，還可用否？答曰：求醫服藥，初不相妨。然藥者只能醫病，不能醫命。命若盡時，藥豈奈何？若殺物命為藥以求身安，此則不可。余多見世人，因病持齋方獲少愈，復有醫者以酒食血肉佐藥，其病復作。信知佛力可救，酒肉無益也。

He also asked, saying: 'May seeking doctors and taking medicines still be used?' / He replied, saying: 'Seeking doctors and taking medicines originally do not conflict. However, medicine can only heal disease; it cannot heal life. When life has come to its end, what can medicine do? If one kills living creatures for medicine in order to seek bodily comfort, this is impermissible. I have often seen worldly people who, because of illness, maintained a vegetarian diet and only then obtained slight recovery, but then a doctor had them use wine, meat, and blood to supplement the medicine, and their illness recurred. Truly know that the Buddha's power can save, while wine and meat are of no benefit.'