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THE FIRST BOOK OF SHI-TUGO
Chapter 8
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Among the Ammonites, the sick are tended by the Peli, men set apart to the calling of healing, together with women endowed with corresponding spiritual gifts. The afflicted are either carried to these healers or the healers come to them, and the ministry proceeds through united prayer, anointing of the head with consecrated oil, and prophetic counsel given as the Spirit directs. Where the sufferer exercises faith, the illness is removed.
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Alongside this spiritual administration, the Peli also prescribe physical remedies drawn from plants and other natural substances, which are believed to strengthen the operation of faith. These remedies take varied forms — drinks, gruels, pastes, powders mixed with wine, inhaled smoke or aromas — and are timed with fasting or with meals as needed. Because the Ammonites pursued bodily as well as spiritual purity and studied the plants God provided, they suffered less disease than the Nephites, who sent their own healers to learn this science.
