Who is the Greek god of medicine and healing?

Who is the Greek god of medicine and healing? Asclepius is the Greek god of medicine and healing.

Greek myth usually makes Asclepius the son of Apollo and Coronis, although some traditions give his mother another identity. The centaur Chiron trained him in medicine, and Asclepius became renowned for healing the sick—so skilled, according to myth, that he could even restore the dead.

Zeus struck Asclepius with a thunderbolt for overturning the boundary between life and death. Apollo’s anger at the punishment led Zeus to honor Asclepius among the stars as the constellation Ophiuchus in later tradition.

His major sanctuaries, called Asclepieia, welcomed pilgrims seeking cures through ritual purification, prayer, offerings, and sleep in a sacred healing space. The Rod of Asclepius—a single snake entwined around a staff—remains a medical symbol. It is often confused with the unrelated, two-snaked caduceus of Hermes.