[Centraal] Vragen over de islam 4

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2007 12:38 schreef DaveHarris het volgende:

- knip - Wegens anders te lange post -

Wat zegt jouw tasfir hierover Triggershot?

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The medicinal properties of the Arabian camel were known to Arab physicians. In his magisterial Canon - "a medical bible for a longer time than any other work"4, Ibn S�n� (Avicenna) mentions that chronic imbalance of the liver produces jaundice, dropsy (istisq�'), and swelling of the belly and that the health of the liver can be restored through a temporary diet of camel milk and male Arabian Naj�b camel urine, "the most beneficient type of urine, then human urine."5 Avicennan textbooks by Ibn al-Azraq (d. 890) and al-Suwayd� (600-690) state, "The cure [for dropsy] is to drink the milk of the she-camel - together with its urine - fresh out of the udder6, and to use that every day and leave everything else, for it is extremely efficient and of proven results."7

Ibn Sayyid al-N�s specifies, "notably desert camels feeding on wormwood and southernwood."8 Wormwood is among the herbs that are extremely useful in correcting digestive disorders in general and for helping detoxify the liver in particular, and is used in the treatment of hepatitis.9

Thus, Arabian camel urine was a standard prescription in Arabic medicine and remains a staple of Bedouin natural remedies to this day both as diuretic, snuff and delousing hair wash.10

One of the great Arab physicians was the Antiochene D�w�d ibn `Umar al-Ant�k� (d. 1008) who knew Greek as well as Arabic, worked in Cairo and Damascus, and died in Makka. He produced a number of Arabic treatises, the most famous being his two-volume Tadhkirat Ul�l-Alb�b wal-J�mi` lil-`Ajab al-`Uj�b or "Memorandum Book for Those Endowed with Hearts and the Encyclopedia of Wonders" - still available in print - in which he says:

Urine differs according to its animal origin but it all tends to heat and dryness provided it does not come from an animal devoid of bile such as the camel. In the latter case, its dryness is minimal because it is devoid of salinity since nothing breaks down salinity, with water, other than the bile. All urine types dispel the effects of disease, cure the eye and the ear, chronic cough, difficulty in respiration, the spleen, and uterine pains, especially aged and/or congealed. The most effective types are human urine then the camel's.11

A camel needs eight times more salt than ovines and bovines - 1kg weekly - and the low salinity of its urine is due to the fact that it produces ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) and aldosterone, a hormone that facilitates reabsorption of urine water from the urinary tracts into blood, reducing the quantity of urine. The liver has few excess amino-acids to degrade into urea and uric acid - highly toxic substances - because of the camel's vegetarian regimen. At the same time, aldosterone helps retain sodium at the level of the kidneys, which keeps water in the body. All this produces such a concentrated urine that the volume excreted can be reduced from 20 to 5 liters.12

IV. Use of Animal Urine in Modern Medicine

Use of animal urine is endorsed in mainstream modern medicine. Pregnant mare urine is the source of conjugated equine estrogens and has been marketed for over fifty years as the pharmaceutical brand Premarin, "an estrogen treatment for menopausal and premenopausal women" especially postpartum - one of the most prescribed drugs in the United States.13 It was very recently discovered that adding distilled cow urine to medicaments increases their effectiveness while decreasing their side-effects, making anti-cancer and anti-tubercular drugs twenty times more effective and anti-bacterial drugs eighty times more effective.14 Human "urine therapy" is a staple of ayurveda but remains an underground semi-science in the West.

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Camels could help cure humans


Scientists from the United Arab Emirates have proposed using one of the world's hardiest mammals - the camel - in the campaign to fight and eradicate human diseases.


Camels are free from viruses such as foot and mouth

A team led by Dr Sabah Jassim from the Zayed Complex for Herbal Research and Traditional Medicine has suggested that camels are highly resistant to many deadly viral diseases and their antibodies could be used for new drugs.

Camels have a unique physiology which allows them to thrive in some of the world's harshest environments.

They can survive the perils of desert dehydration by storing water in their bloodstream; they can survive lack of food by holding extra fatty tissue in their humps; their milk stays fresh much longer than that of a cow.

Natural immunity

But as well as these advantages, they have immune systems that are so robust, they remain free from many of the viral diseases that affect other mammals, such as foot-and-mouth and rinderpest.

The antibodies that camels carry inside them are structurally much simpler than those of humans, and Dr Sabah Jassim suggests they would be much simpler to replicate artificially than human antibodies.

Writing in the British Institute of Biology's magazine, The Biologist, Dr Jassim says the small size of camel antibodies would also allow them to penetrate deep into human tissue and cells that would not be otherwise accessible.

He said the camel antibodies, by being transported from the desert sands into the laboratory test tube, have the potential to be a vital weapon against human diseases.

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Op zaterdag 31 maart 2007 14:00 schreef Masterix het volgende:

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Ehm, dit is niet Avicenna's uitleg: de man was overtuigd humoraal-patholoog. In deze uitleg worden argumenten uit de humoraal-pathologie gecombineert met concepten uit het bio-medisch paradigma.

Moest ik effe kwijt.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2007 13:05 schreef k3vil het volgende:
Zie, er wordt gesproken tot Israel over Israel

De Koe:
49. En toen Wij u redden van farao's volk, dat u met bittere marteling kwelde, Uw zonen dodend en uw vrouwen sparend; hierin was voor u een zware beproeving van uw Heer.

Kan het zijn dat er in het arabisch niet koe staat maar rund, als in een dier dat onder de runderen te scharen valt?

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2007 13:10 schreef k3vil het volgende:

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Ik bedoelde niet echt letterlijk rund, de vraag is meer of er een dier bedoelt wordt dat onder runderen valt. Dat het dus niet persee een koe hoeft te zijn, maar dat de vertaler het zo interpreteerd.

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Op dinsdag 3 april 2007 23:54 schreef static het volgende:
Hoe is het eigenlijk met die gebedstijden; is dat een richtlijn?

Hier op kantoor valt men en masse op bepaalde tijden in een kluitje op de knieeen, maar sommigen bidden weer op andere tijden (ohw, en voor die gebeden kun je de toiletruimtes niet gebruiken omdat iedereen zich staat te wassen, zelfs de voeten met sokken aan). Ruikt ook niet bepaald fris, maar goed.

En mag je storen als ze aan het bidden zijn? De ruimte waar men bidt hier is schuin aan het einde van een gang (richting Mekka) waar toevallig enkele meeting-rooms zijn, soms zit je dus gewoon opgesloten.

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Op woensdag 4 april 2007 09:39 schreef KirmiziBeyaz het volgende:

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Welk kantoor is dat dan wel niet en wat is de core-business? Klinkt als een plek waar ik ook wel zou willen werken.