Divine Knowledge In The Torah: Ancient Medical Secrets (3 minutes)

0:48So even though technically you're not supposed to touch ketzefim (money), not allowed to touch money on Shabbat, he says on Shabbat you're allowed to touch the silver coin if you're going to put it on a wound because it's for medicine. And in those days, if you continued bleeding, if you didn't stop it right away, you would die. So it's considered pikuach nefesh. In today's world, obviously, it's not. But nonetheless, it says it's specifically telling us that this silver has healing power. Also, there's something called opakinon. It is very good for the ladies. Why? Chazal figured out that instead of going to the spa and spending two or three hundred dollars to get different hair removed and improve your skin, and all the things that women do, all you have to do is use Apikinon. What's Apikinon? It's an olive. olive that's crushed and turned into oil, and they would rub it onto the skin. But it's not just any olive. They have to wait specifically until the olive is a third of its normal growth. As soon as it's a third of its normal growth, they have to crush it, and that's the oil they use. So they knew exactly, precisely when it's a third. And they would use that to remove hair from the bodies of women.

2:02and make them pretty, make them shiny, and all the things that, unfortunately, ladies, you spend at least a few thousand dollars a month on. You can get it for free if you learn the Gemara. One of the major things that people have discovered just in the recent generation is that wine is good for the heart. But this you can actually find in both Masechet Berachot and Masechet Avodah Zarah, as well as in several other places in the Gemara, where it specifically discusses the difference between wine and beer. It says beer is terrible for the heart, but wine is very good for the heart. They already knew exactly what is beneficial for the heart. It's interesting how the Sages knew many things that we have only recently discovered.