Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
I was really hoping I was wrong, that someone could find me numerous examples of scripture that says this food heals or cures.
In fact, there's a whole section of the Old Testament that talks about cures.
Wikipedia links to the "Cliff notes" of Leviticus:
en.wikipedia.org...
In a nutshell, women are "unclean" (in a state of advanced sin) after they give birth (they're "Unclean longer if they give birth to a girl.)
Leviticus 13: If you have some sort of lump on your skin, the priest locks you up for a week to see if it's leprosy. If it's not, they keep you
locked up until they decide if it's plague or something else. The diagnostics are pretty simple but not effective (it couldn't diagnose shingles,
for instance, and couldn't determine skin cancer.)
If you have leprosy, the priests declare you unclean and you have to leave the camp and walk around shouting "Unclean, unclean" (Leviticus 13:45)
You can't come into any sacred places. If your clothes have odd stains (like mildew), they are burned.
Leviticus 14 says that if the "leprosy" goes away, then with the appropriate sacrifices you can become clean by making sacrifices to atone for the
sin that brought the leprosy on you. It's pretty elaborate.
If the house has a "plague of leprosy" (which actually reads as though it might be mold of some sort if you look at the descriptions), you scrape
and replaster and if that doesn't work, then you tear the house down and throw the stones away. And make sacrifices.
Leviticus 15 deals with what appears to be venereal disease (syphilis or something similar.) If you have it, you, everything you touch, and
everything you lie or sit on is unclean. Anyone who touches these things is also unclean for the rest of the day (but can make sacrifices and become
clean again.) Pots should be broken and clothes should be washed. No treatment is given, only a process when you're "cure" of whatever it is,
then you make sacrifices and so forth and are declared clean. Women who have sex with men who have syphilis or another discharge are declared unclean
for seven days and then go through rituals and are declared 'clean'.
If a woman has menstrual problems (under today's medical diagnostics what the Bible describes could be endometriosis, a spontaneous early pregnancy
termination, perimenopause, fibroids, tumors, cancer, etc) then she's declared unclean. Her bed and clothing are burned and they make a sin
offering.
This is the only medical section in the Bible.
There are some anecdotal stories (a king who was cured of leprosy by dipping himself in the River Jordan) but no real prescriptions.
The Bible mentions a lot of foods, but not in the context of health. They're mentioned as favorite foods to eat or foods that are "clean" and not
"unclean." There is no real health difference between "clean" and "unclean" foods (shellfish, for instance, are unclean and so are catfish and
ostriches and pigs and bears,)
... (i do not use nor
condone this horrible illegal substance because it makes me want to kill my brother and commit suicide 
) haha i hope you enjoy my connection i cant
find where i found an article about this from but if i do i will post to your thread.
