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If Irori is the wearer's patron.... Once per day, the wearer can also perform a healing dance that lasts 5 minutes. When she does so, up to 7 allies within 30 feet heal 1 hit point.
Your buddies watch you dance for 5 minutes and they heal a hit point?
Pretty situational but maybe you've got a single point of damage on all your horses from having them hustle for an hour and want to fix it up or you have "that guy" in your party too cheap to fully heal a single hp of damage but will sit still for you to dance at him for 5 minutes. It is too slow to stop a bleed effect but I suppose if you had no other healing at all and you had some people stabilized with first aid, this would provide the magical healing needed to ensure that they don't get worse.
It could also be read as "while the dance is going, the allies heal 1 hit point" which would be a kind of super-infernal-healing - it would heal 50 hitpoints of damage per party member, saving some wear and tear on wands of cure light wounds after a tough fight.
This item has been around for a while, it dates back to Gods and Magic. Has anyone ever used this function of the item?
Why does Irori have a healing dance ritual? I wouldn't expect him to be opposed to dancing but I've never thought of it as something he particularly favored.
Maybe that's why the benefits are so bad, Irori's a pretty poor dancer despite Shelyn's best efforts.