The Treatment of Skin Disease in Leviticus 14

In Leviticus 14, we get a discussion of the treatment and if I'm using that word lightly sort of with a grain of salt because it isn't a medical treatment. If the priest agrees that the man is cured, two clean birds are brought. One has to be killed and its blood caught,. put in a container and mixed with fresh water contained in an earthenware vessel. Some of it is sprinkled over the man using cedar wood, scarlet cord and hissop. The living bird is also dipped into the blood and then allowed to fly away free. When the man himself must shave all over and wash himself in his clothes, he is then clean enough to