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{{short description|Temple ordinance practicedpractice byin LDS ChurchMormonism}}

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[[Brigham Young]] and [[Ezra T. Benson]] encouraged women to perform these healing rituals at home. However, by the April 1921 [[general conference (LDS)|general conference]] the consensus was that healings should only be performed by Melchizedek Priesthood holders (who are exclusively male).<ref name=":0" />

In 1946, Joseph Fielding Smith sent a letter to Belle S. Spafford, the General Relief Society President at the time, discouraging the practice of female healing, indicating that it was likely still happening at this time.<ref name=":0" /> <ref name=female_healing/>

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