Question

Hello. בעקבות your latest post (What’s Wrong with Ideology), I came across the website of the religion scholar Tomer Persico (you link there to one of his articles), and in one of the articles there (Magic, Kabbalists, Modernity) I saw a reference to Ronnie Weinstein’s book, where he supposedly brings shocking quotations about pathological sexual acts from the writings of the Ari as remedies for various illnesses.
I’m quoting from Tomer’s article:
So here it is, with Weinstein’s comments in square brackets:

Beware of the bruja [a witch in Spanish] who kills infants […] immediately when the child is born, place in his mouth his father’s circumcised organ (Rabbi Chaim Vital, Sefer HaPe’ulot, 216)
For epilepsy [to heal a person suffering from seizures], they should take a boy [one] who has never emitted semen in his life, extract semen from him, and with that seminal emission and semen they should smear the sick person’s lips, and that illness will never return again (ibid., 325)

And one more:
There was an incident involving a woman who was having a difficult labor [giving birth] and was in danger, and her relatives came to the Rabbi’s house to perform a remedy for her and save her. And the Rabbi [the Ari] answered: It is true that she is in danger, and she has two sons in her womb, and there is a remedy for her if it can be found. They said to him [to the Ari], let the master tell us. He said to them: The remedy is that a man who has never seen a drop of seminal emission in his life should come and place his organ in her mouth, and she will immediately give birth and be saved. They said to him: Who is this man? Let us go to him. He said to them: I know, but I do not have permission to reveal it, so as not to cast aspersions on others. But do this: issue a proclamation throughout the city—whoever knows about himself that he has never seen a drop of seminal emission in his life should come and save three Jewish lives [the woman in labor and the twins in her womb]. And so they did. When the great sage Rabbi Moshe Galanti the Elder heard, he immediately arose and came with them and placed his organ in her mouth, and she immediately gave birth. (Sefer Toledot HaAri, ed. Meir Benayahu, Ben-Zvi Institute, pp. 224–225)

 
From the way Tomer responds there, it seems that these things really do appear in the writings of the Ari—and I quote again, this time Tomer’s own words:
“First of all, I’m interested to know whether someone who believes everything Rabbi Chaim Vital writes about the upper worlds, or everything written in the name of the Ari about them, also believes what they write about healing the sick. And if he does believe, whether he would try Vital’s or the Ari’s advice in order to be completely healed; and if he does not believe, how he explains to himself that Vital, the Ari’s leading disciple, or the Ari himself, could on the one hand come up with such crazy nonsense, and on the other hand reveal the truth about the blessed Infinite One. But that is a side note.”
I tried to look for the source but couldn’t find it. Are these things really written in the Ari’s teachings? Is this familiar? Known?
 
And if so—what the hell???