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Disease, cleanliness, healing, and the workings of the body are described here in ancient terms — sometimes practical, sometimes ritual. Modern medicine frames the same matters differently.

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• Eating mandrake root helps a woman conceive a child.

  Genesis 30:14-16

  What it means: Mandrake root has no proven effect on fertility — what it does contain are tropane alkaloids that can trigger hallucinations, a racing heart, and outright pois…

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