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Sacred Medicine: Part I of III

Sacred Medicine: The Five Healers, the Divine Plants, and the Science of Restoring the Body to Truth Ahura Mazda gave Thrita 10,000 healing plants that grew around the Tree of Eternal Life. Then he gave humanity five methods to heal. This is the oldest integrated medical system on earth. In the Vendidad, Fargard 20, we read that Thrita — the first physician — received from Ahura Mazda ten thousand healing plants that had been growing around the Gaokerena , the White Haoma, the Tree of Eternal Life. This was not a myth.

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Sacred Medicine: The Five Healers, the Divine Plants, and the Science of Restoring the Body to Truth Ahura Mazda gave Thrita 10,000 healing plants that grew around the Tree of Eternal Life. Then he gave humanity five methods to heal. This is the oldest integrated medical system on earth. In the Vendidad, Fargard 20, we read that Thrita — the first physician — received from Ahura Mazda ten thousand healing plants that had been growing around the Gaokerena , the White Haoma, the Tree of Eternal Life. This was not a myth. It was a medical charter — a divine mandate that healing is sacred work, that plants are gifts from God, and that the physician serves the same cosmic order as the priest. From the very beginning, Zoroastrianism understood something that modern medicine is only now rediscovering: health is alignment .

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Yasna · Avesta · Vendidad · Bundahishn · Shahnameh

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