Something I’ve wondered about for a long time. This article seems to bring up a lot of interesting points. Dr. Rehan Zaidi   Over Spring Break during my senior year in college, I had all four of my wisdom teeth surgically extracted like just about everyone else I knew my age. Needless to say, I spent most of my vacation on the living room couch with my mouth loaded with … [Read more...]

by Dr. Rehan Zaidi Source: MysticMedicine.com You change the oils and filters in your car, you wash the dishes and scrub the bathroom sink. You take a shower and you make sure to clean between your fingers. But how often do you cleanse your body from the inside? The body becomes a storage site for chemicals as it is exposed to toxins in our environment, from cigarette smoke and traffic … [Read more...]

A variety of oral hygiene measures have been performed since the dawn of time. This has been verified by various excavations done all over the world, in which toothpicks, chewsticks, tree twigs, linen strips, birds' feathers, animal bones and porcupine quills were recovered Those that originated from plants are tasty twigs and although primitive they represented a transitional step towards the … [Read more...]

  by John Summerly, They come in all different sizes, shapes and colours. The seed is an embryonic plant itself and the origin of nutrition. A plant goes to great lengths to produce each seed and fill it with high concentrations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, essential oils and dormant enzymes. If you’re looking for a high quality, nutritious and filling snack, seeds are tough to … [Read more...]

    The Greatest Gift – The Human Body Diet plays a very important role in the daily life of a believer. There are many verses in the Noble Qur’ân which draw man’s attention towards his self and which invite him to carefully study his body and soul and the nature of their mutual relationship. By doing so, one will firstly find in it strong evidence of the existence of … [Read more...]

By Jesse Cannone | Published: January 4, 2013 Coming down with a nasty cold or flu bug can easily derail even the “healthiest” among us. Both diseases of the respiratory tract and caused by viruses, colds and flus often have similar symptoms, although the flu is typically more severe and can sometimes lead to dangerous complications. It’s estimated that anywhere from 5 percent to 20 … [Read more...]

Hijaamah comes from the root al-hajm, which means “sucking”, and is used of the action of draining the breast when an infant is suckled. Al-hajjaam is the name given to the cupper, and hijaamah is the name given to this profession. Al-mihjam is the name given to the tool in which blood is collected, or to the knife used by the cupper. Ibn ‘Abbas (may Allaah be pleased with them both) … [Read more...]

  by Nasmira Firdous   You have a long day at work: you start your morning by grabbing coffee through a drive-thru window because there was no time to make breakfast, and you need the caffeine. Sure, you’ve read all those articles online and in magazines about eating healthy – recipes, new diets, calorie-counting apps– but most options seem too expensive or time-consuming. … [Read more...]