Faith Healing: Hammering a Nail Into a Woman’s Brain to Decided a Child’s Sex

Another victim of ancient medicine

An x-ray shows the nail stuck through the woman’s head (Source: BBC)

Faith healing has been seen as the pinnacle of medicine during ancient times for many cultures. Usually, these healing rituals focus on the religion followed by a certain culture which puts in practice unusual “treatments” that are based on historical records that have worked. It seems normal to see such practices in ancient times, but the problem is that these practices are still followed in our modern times where medicine has significantly evolved.

History of Faith Healing

Sometimes referred to as spiritual healing, has quite a vast history and is different with each culture. faith healing, recourse to divine power to cure mental or physical disabilities, either in conjunction with orthodox medical care or in place of it. Every part of the world has its own part of faith healing within their traditional medicine, but it is most commonly found within the Eastern world. It is believed that faith healing has been introduced in Ancient Egypt through their beliefs and different rituals that focused on faith.

From there the practice had spread to Greece and this is known through temples erected to Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. Every culture sort of evolved its…