Go Lay Down
Growing up in the culture, there were a few remedies we all knew like the back of our hands:
Go lay down
Drink this Ginger Ale or Sprite
Take a tylenol
Try using the bathroom
If one of these did not solve the ailment, it was time to take things to the next level. The key indicator someone was not feeling well, especially a child was if they were lethargic and wanted to do more sleeping or laying down than being active and playing. If the child was laying down multiple days with these symptoms it was a cause for bedside prayer and the laying of hands.
I would describe intercessory prayer as someone else praying for you or petitioning God/Spirit/Source on your behalf. Then there was the good ole laying of hands where, someone came over to prayer or you were encircled at church or home, even in the hospital with the prayer team (also known as prayer warriors) who would either extend a hand in your direction or lay their hands directly on your body as they prayed for your complete healing and recovery.
I recall many of times growing up, having hands extended towards someone in prayer or even praying for my mother when she felt ill and would ask me to come. So when I began to return back to the innate wisdom I had about laying hands and prayer, even though I left the physical church. I began to see the correlation between practices in the church and many of the practices I was drawn to in Eastern medicine. Laying hands was the practice of reiki, except instead of physically touching others hands were laid over or around their bodies. The shouting in church service to move or express the energy moving in the body was another expression of yoga-asana. Burning incense as an offering was aromatherapy. Rubbing our bodies down with oil, lotion, or poultices are Ayurveda. Drinking an herbal concoction is herbalism. And none of these are foreign or new practices to me because not only did I grow up with these practices they were calling to me as a practice because I have an ancestral wisdom within each of them.