Prayer for people with physical ailments

[Joachim ben Noach]

Dear cbell14,
Thanks for this important question. When you pray, you can tell G-d exactly what it is that you need or another person needs, and you can pray that G-d please send the blessing or the healing. It is good to combine the prayer with a gift to a proper charity, because the merit of that good deed on behalf of the sick person will be added to the prayer.

With your permission

I will suggest that in addition to this, when you do a good deed, it adds goodness to the world, and it sets up a chain reaction of more and more good that will be done and added to the world. You can tell G-d that you're adding that goodness for the sake of this-and-that person, and He will take that into account. And certainly this is in itself prayer!