Islamic Medicine

al-Kadhim (AS) has said:
Stay away from the treatment of physicians as long as you are well. It
is similar to a building, a little of it leads too much.
al-Hasan (AS) remarks:
Every medication stirs up an illness, and there is nothing more
beneficial for the body than withholding from it all except what it
requires.
The Infallible (AS) have further cautioned us to avoid medications as
long as the body can bear the illness. Natural medicines used by the
Prophet (S) were simple and non-artificial remedies. They were all
designed to stimulate thehealing process within a person. Neither he,
nor any of his companions even used any synthetics,pharmaceutical or
composite chemicals (al-Akili, 1993).
Clearly, Hippocrates preferred and prescribedherbal remedies first,
andif these did not work, he resorted to alternative methods, mostly
drugs (Becker, 1990). The herbs,according to healers at that time,
assisted in balancing the energy flow within the sick person. Also,
these herbalpreparations and natural whole food vitamin supplements
have a strong ability to play a significant role in the energetic
system of the body. Brennan (1987) postulates further that herbal
preparations and vitamins may significantly affect the human energy in
a positive manner and fasten the healing process.
Herbs and whole foods asroot vegetables are rich with electrical
energy derived from the earth and have more grounding power
(Poole,1999). Because all living things possess a life force, even
such herbs can have significant effects on the human body via their
electrical properties. Pharmaceutical grade drugs contain within their
structure the most unstable and unsteady electrical matrix, together
with unfavorable, confusing and altered info-energy, and consuming
them on a daily basis is the real cause of many of the major illnesses
in this present society. Herbal and food preparations for medicinal
purposes are natural, and many of their families contain researched
medicinal qualities. Therefore, to consume these herbs andfoods when
ill will help balance the blockages in the energy field brought about
by sickness and ailment, as well as physical complaints.
Reporting in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr.
Lucien Leape of Harvard School of Public Health, has calculated that:
180,000 people die in theU.S. each year partly as a result of
iatrogenic injury(injury caused by medicines), the equivalent of 3
jumbo jets crashes every two days.
In another issue, the journal points out that:
Injury from medical treatment in the U.S. dwarfs the annual automobile
accident mortality of 45,000 and accounts for more deathsthan all
other accidents combined.
An average 50% of patients return to their medical doctors simply
because of medically - induced problems. Further, most of the medical
drugs in existence 30 years ago cannot now be used because of their
discovered toxic effects! This is exactly why approximately 15% of
hospital days are devotedto the treatment of drug side effects.
Furthermore,recent surveys from the United Kingdom and America have
shown thatas many as 80% of patients feel that their underlying
complaint, their reason for going to the doctor, was not
satisfactorily resolved when they left the office (Chopra, 1990).
Pharmaceutical Drugs and Electrical Damage
Pharmaceutical grade drugs significantly affect the energy (Brennan,
1987; Margo von Phul, 2000) and traditional healers and energy
scientists have thoroughly documented such reports. To report from one
such health-care professional, Brennan (1987) has observed dark energy
forms in the liver left from drugs taken for various diseases. She
alsoreports chemotherapy to clog the whole energy field, especially
the liver, with greenish-brown mucus-like energy.
To her amazement, she also saw a radiopaque dye that was used to
observe the spine that was injected into the spinal column to diagnose
injury ten yearsafter injection, although it is supposed to clear
thebody in a month or two. She even observed side effects of certain
drugs inher patients as many as ten years after the drug was taken.
The example she gives concerns a drugfor hepatitis that was causing
immune deficiencies five years later. A red dye placed in the spinal
column for exploratory purposes was inhibiting the healing of spinal
nerves ten years later. Apparently, Shamanic healers have also been
reported to observe such energy blockages and disruption in energy
flowin sick patients.
Such kinds of observations are true and have been extensively reported
in scientific research. With proper training, the eyes can be taught
by the mind to physically see beyond normal vision and witness the
energy of thoughts, emotions, and life itself manifestingin every
human being.
A common side effect of all drugs is not talked about - the nutrients
thatare stripped away and depleted by taking medication. These
vitamins, minerals and enzymes are used up in the process of
processingand detoxifying all drugs.Diuretics wash potassium,
magnesium, sodium, zinc and vitamin B2 right out of your body;
antacids steal vitamins A and B1, folic acid, calcium, copper, iron
and phosphorous from your tissues; antibiotics deplete numerous
vitamins - B2, C, D, niacin, folic acid, biotin, and so forth. The
stealing of such minerals and vitamins from the body tissues create
significant electrical damage to the cells as most of the
above-mentioned elements playsignificant roles in the body's
electrical processes, and in turn affect the energy system. Side
effects and diseases caused from medicines will further develop
blockage to our energy system, as we become weaker and lethargic. The
only way to balance and charge this energy around oneself when ill is
to try herbal and wholefood preparations that will provide balance and
health to the system. Moreover, the electrical properties of such
herbals and foods will most definitely strengthen the human energy
system, thereby hastening the healing process. Even further, many
medicines have metals and exposure to many of them can lead
toillnesses. Emoto (2004) found in his experiments that Aluminum, for
example, has a similar vibration frequency to sadness, anger to lead,
uncertainty to Cadmium, and stress to Zinc. Therefore, these metals
can and do cause illnesses - as Alzheimer's is believed to be caused
by excessive Aluminum.
Islam Prefers Natural Medicine over Drugs
The preferred method of medical therapy in Islamic Medicine during the
time of the Prophet (S) and the Infallible (AS), and during the reign
of the most revered Islamic physicians, the like of Ali Ibn Rabban
al-Tabari, (838-870 A.D.), Mohamed Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, (864-930
A.D.), and Ibn Sina, (980-1037 A.D.) was a scheme starting with
nutritional therapy. If this failed, drugs were employed. al-Akili
(1993) writes that in May of 1970, the World Health Organization (WHO)
paid tribute to Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi by stating
that, so important a physician al-Razi was that the well-known writer
George Sarton wrote in his Introduction to the History of Science,
that al-Razi was the greatest physician of the medievalages. In
addition, al-Razi confirmed his preferred method of treatment by
saying:
If a medical doctor can treat a patient through nutrition rather than
medicine, he has done the best thing.
Electrical Power of Herbs and Foods
Herbal preparations carryand store within them the earth's higher
frequency vibrations, andessential systemic memories that reflect
thewholeness of the plants and its history (Schwartz and Russek,
1999). Further, it is highly probable that the Almighty Allah (SWT)
Himself has allowed higher frequencies of energy within these plants
and implanted specific restorative info-energy in them. These plants
know what to do when ingested by humans and animal. A good example
involves a plant that the ancient people used to eat to reduce
cravings for food in times of hunger. The herb literally sends message
to the brain thatit is filled and satiated.
Apparently, Allah (SWT) has given such power to humans and has allowed
such relationship with plants. Shamans are a group of people who are
reported to have been observed to develop suchrelationships. Shamans
talk with plants and animals, with all of nature. They do it in an
altered state of consciousness. Students of Shamanism rapidly discover
that by talking with plants, they can discover how to prepare those
plants for remedies. Shamans have been doing this since ancient times.
They typically know a great deal about plants.
Harner (1997) reports that one shaman is reported to have developed a
practice of discovering and using healing plants based on his learning
directly fromthe plants. Later, he found that the pharmacopoeia he
developed was very closeto the ancient, classic Chinese pharmacopoeia
knowledge of how to prepare and use these plants for different
ailments. Another former Shaman in Germany worked with minerals and
found how they could be used in healing. It turned out that her
discoveries were very close to what has been known in India from
ancient times.
A good example is a tradition from the Prophet (S) that eating 21
raisins reduces allergies. Apparently, the number 21 may also havea
strong meaning, for Allah may have developed this relationship between
Him and the raisins, and that if consumed 21 of them, the raisins
become medicinal. Drinking water in 7 sips has been advised for
stopping hiccups. The number 40 has even superior qualities and
Ayatullah Najm al-Din Kubra (1221) has devoted a whole chapter to this
number inhis book A Treatise on Wayfaring. He says:
We have seen clearly (through direct experience) and known through the
statements (of the sages) that this noble instance from among the
instances pertaining to numbers has a particular significance and a
specialeffectiveness in the development of inner potentialities and
the perfection of enduring qualities and in covering the stages and
traversingthe phases (of wayfaring).
Relevant to previous and forthcoming sections in this book, he quotes
the following tradition by al-Majlisi (1627) in Biharul-Anwar - Volume
14, Page 512:
Verily, if one recites the Chapter of al-Hamd forty times on water and
poursit on someone suffering from fever, God shall curehim.
It is further reported thatwriting 40 times the chapter of al-Inshirah
with saffron on a piece of paper, and the ailing person soaks the
writingsin water and drinks it for 40 days, his kidney stoneswould
break-down into small pieces for elimination. Clearly, (and as we have
noted) the verses of al-Qur'an store much coherent vibrationsand
powerful force fieldsof energy to affect the person in a physiological
manner. Water has a similar strength.
We have noted earlier (and mentioned later) the advantages of reciting
such couplets or Chapters from Qur'an on water or foods. The water not
only has the ability to store the pure and unadulterated info-energy
in its memory but also transfer this vibrant and healing energy to the
sick personand transforms the faults in his or her energy system. The
only difference now is that the number 40 is associated with the
specific healing abilities. Water and food are able to understand such
communications as explained by Emoto (2004). He writes:
Water records information, and then while circulating throughout the
earth distributes information. The water crystals that are formed when
water is shown positive words are simply beautiful. The response to
water of loveand gratitude is nothing less than grandeur.
Thesepositive words give spiritto water.
The power of words, or incantation on water andfood has been
rigorously investigated and Emoto (2004) writes in his book that
besides him, other scientists have also been able to show the effect
ofprayer on water - energy from the spirit of words seem to do the
change (and become a healing source). Even lakes have been observed to
respond to prayer (to harden) and certain words. Science and medicine
has only now appreciated the beneficial aspects of honey and bee
by-products, olive, figs, and so forth. All of these foods have been
mentioned in Qur'an, the honey specifically mentioned as a cure for
people.
Then eat all the fruits andwalk in the ways of your Lord submissively.
There comes out from within it (bee) a fluid of different colors in
which there is a healing for men. Surely, there is a sign in this for
people who reflect.
(al-Qur'an - Chapter 16, Verse 69)
Live foods and fresh fruits have been largely documented to assist in
balancing one's energy (Morse (2000) quoting Alice, (1996).
Practitioners of natural medicine further agree that the effect of
herbal preparations and foods deal with the underlying disease
mechanism, such as an immune deficiency or dysfunction rather than
dealing with the superficial symptoms. Consequently, the effect is
truly curative and not just symptomatic or palliative in nature.
The second feature is that the therapeutic effect is restorative in
nature regardless of direction of the abnormality. This is usually a
common feature of natural herbs and other natural therapeutic
modalities, unlike synthetic pharmacological preparations where
theireffect is usually in one direction and progressivewith increasing
doses beyond the desirable normal range.