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by David W. Tschanz

Wel knew he the olde Esculapius And Deyscorides and eek Rufus Olde Ypocras, Haly and Galeyn, Serapion, Razi and Avycen, Averrois, Damascien and Constantyn, Bernard and Gatesden and Gilbertyn.

In the “General Prologue” of The Cantenbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer identifies the authorities used by his “Doctour of Physic” in the six lines quoted above. The list includes four Arab physicians: Jesu Haly (Ibn ‘Isa [Haly Abbas, Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi]), Razi (al-Razi, or Rhazes), Avycen (Ibn Sina, or Avicenna) and Averrois (Ibn Rushd, or Averroes). These four did not make Chaucer’s list only to add an exotic flavor to his late-14th-century poetry. Chaucer cited them because they were regarded as among the great medical authorities of the ancient world and the European Middle Ages, physicians whose textbooks were used in European medical schools, and would be for centuries to come. First collecting, the translating, then augmenting and finally codifying the classical Greco-Roman heritage that Europe had lost, Arab physicians of the eighth to eleventh century laid the foundations of the institutions and the science of modern medicine.

After the collapse of the western Roman empire in the fifth century, Europe lost touch with much of its intellectual heritage. Of Greek science, all that remained were Pliny's Encyclopedia and Boethius's treatises on logic and mathematics; the Latin library was so limited that European theologians found it nearly impossible to expand their knowledge of their own scriptures.

The center of Europe's new world view became the church, which exerted profound new influences in medicine. Because Christianity emphasized compassion and care for the sick, monastic orders ran fine hospitals - but they did not function as hospitals do today. They were simply places to take seriously ill people, where they were expected to either recover or die as God willed. There were no learned physicians to attend them, only kindly monks who dispensed comfort and the sacraments, but not medicines.

Because the Christian church viewed care of the soul as far more important than care of the body, medical treatment and even physical cleanliness were little valued, and mortification of the flesh was seen as a sign of saintliness. In time, nearly all Europeans came to look upon illness as a condition caused by supernatural forces, which might take the form of diabolical possession. Hence, cures could only be effected by religious means. Every malady had a patron saint to whom prayers were directed by the patient, family, friends and the community. Upper respiratory infections were warded off by a blessing of the throat with crossed candles on the feast of Saint Blaise. Saint Roch became the patron of plague victims. Saint Nicaise was the source of protection against smallpox. Kings, regarded as divinely appointed, were believed to be able to cure scrofula and skin diseases, among other maladies, with the “royal touch.”

With the study of disease and of patients neglected, licensed medicine as an independent craft virtually vanished. Those physicians who endured were mostly connected with monasteries and abbeys. But even for them, the generally accepted goal was less to discover causes, or even to heal, than to study the writings of other physicians and comment on their work. In the middle of the seventh century, the Catholic church banned surgery by monks, because it constituted a danger to their souls. Since nearly all of the surgeons of that era were clerics, the decree effectively ended the practice of surgery in Europe.

At roughly the same time, another civilization was rising in the east. The coming of Islam, also in the seventh century (See Aramco World, November/December 1991), led to a hundred years of continuous geographical expansion and an unprecedented era of ferment in all branches of learning. The Arabs rapidly melded the various cultures of the Islamic domain, and Arabic - the language of the Qur'an - became the universal language. By the 10th century a single language linked peoples from the Rann of Kutch [India] to the south of France, and Arabic became to the East what Latin and Greek had been to the West - the language of literature, the arts and sciences, and the common tongue of the educated.

Medicine was the first of the Greek sciences to be studied in depth by Islamic scholars. After Plato's Academy was closed in 529, some of its scholars found refuge at the university at Jundishahpur, the old Sassanid capital of Persia, which had also sheltered excommunicated Nestorian Christian scholars - among them physicians - in 431. Persia became part of the Islamic world in 636, and Arab rulers supported the medical school at Jundishahpur; for the next 200 years it was the greatest center of medical teaching in the Islamic world. There, Islamic physicians first familiarized themselves with the works of Hippocrates, Galen and other Greek physicians. At the same time, they were also exposed to the medical knowledge of Byzantium, Persia, India and China.

Recognizing the importance of translating Greek works into Arabic to make them more widely available, the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) and h

Vol.2 Issue 14

Nobel Prize Internet Dec.,.1999

The monthly health, science and alternative medicine newsletter published by Faik A. Nasser and dealing with honey, alternative medicine, health, herbs, longevity, dreams, nutrition, Islam,

The monthly health, science and alternative medicine newsletter published by Faik A. Nasser and dealing with honey, alternative medicine, health, herbs, longevity, dreams, nutrition, Islam,

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

OF RAMADAN FASTING RESEARCH

O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint,

(Qur'an el Hakeem, 2:183)

A publication of the International Society for Ramadan Fasting Research, an association of scholars studying human metabolism and behavior related to Ramadan fasting. The society is dedicated to the improvement of dietary, medical, health, social and personal practices by Muslims and non-Muslim during the month of Ramadan and afterwards.

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Volume: 1 (1), 1997

Dietary fat, blood cholesterol and uric acid levels during Ramadan fasting M.Z.A.Nomani, Ph.D.

Abstracts of Selected Articles: Behavior Modification

Volume: 2 (1), 1998

Study of some biochemical parameters in young women as effected by Ramadan fasting
S.A. Nagra, Ph.D., Z. Rahman, Ph.D., J. Mehmood, M.Sc. and Afshan J. Quadri, M.Sc.

Ramadan fasting and Diabetes Mellitus F. Azizi, M.D. and B. Siahkolah, M.D

Absracts of Selected Articles, 1997-98

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My cup of tea is " Apoptosis The dilemma of the patients with diseases and pain awaiting a break throug in this field of medicine.
I encourage readers to read " The limits of medicine" by Edward S. Golub.To quote some words...
"If the goal of scientific medicine is not to extend life indefintely,Is it to focus
on the heartbreak of the rare disorder that takes a life too soon"
Prevention is far better than intervention.Karl Popper argues"
A scientific hypothesis can never be verified;it can only be falsified".
Dear visitors ,the imagination must be understood.It's power goes beyond the limits of medicine.
Medicine creates it's own problem by focusing on specificity.
The history of medicine goes back to the first time when the power of suggestion"PLACEBO" was first used.
I am asking the readers:
Is death a defeat of science?
"WHOSE" suffering we will turn our knowledge and technology toward?
As Thomas KUHN argues,that the scientific revolution
is associated with "paradigm shifts"
Science"mature"when it is characterized by a"paradigm"

To
Ayurvedic Medicine Simplified
" Facts are the most enemy of the truth"
Don Quixote/Miguel de cervantes saavedra

First let us define the word PLACEBO:
it means in greek "I will please you",some define it as the power of suggestion on you.
I personally bielieve it has a real physiological response in our bodies.

What is Alternative Medicine(AM)?
Any medicine other than conventional medicine.
How did AM start?
There was an article published in The New England Journal Of Medicine,Jan.1993,p.246.
Dr,David Eisenberg conducted a telephone survey of 1539 adults.The study concludes that there is ONE in every THREE American use AM.
This means over 10 BILLIONS dollars spent yearly by Americans. Well this is essentially how the AM did start in USA.
What are the reasons for using AM?

1- AM has been increasingly supported by respected American Doctors.
2- AM means fewer medications and less side effects.
3- Americans are upset about the conventional medicine limitations.
4- It has become popular the notion that Conventional Medicine(CM) treates organs and not the patients.
5- The general public awarness of the other medical options.
6- There is good chance to spend less money.
( For more details see: Amer.J. of Health Promotion.,12 Nov./Decemb.1997.p112.)

Whate are the most common AM ?
To mention few,these are:
a- Herbal Therapy
b-Vitamin Therapy.
C. Chiropractice.
d-Acupuncture.
AYURVEDIC medicine is 5000 years old health tradition. Ayurveda , in sanskrit means "THE SCIENCE OF LIFE". The body types are defined by " DOSHAS".
DOSHAS are VATA , PITTA, KAPHA.
VATA (V): It has to do with body movement, kinetics of your cells including your DNA. Well it simply has to do with MOVEMENT.

PITTA (P) : It has to do with your METABOLISM.

KAPHA (K) : It has to do with your STRUCTURE.
So if we say VPK-- it means well ballanced individual.
If we say you are V++PK it means you are very active and may have insomina or anxiety.
Thus Ayurvedic medicine defines Herbs according to this principal. For example
AM gives The Herb Licorice the combination of VP-K+.
MORE EXAMPLES: CUMIN= PKV=( It reads P K V minus minus)
Ginseng= V-KP=
Gota Kola = KPV=
St. John Wort= PK-V+
Ginger= VK-P+
For more information consult "The Ayurveda Encyclopedia, Swami sada shiva Tirtha,1998,1st ed.

SAFETY NOTE: ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE TREATING ANY CONDITION.
.
Previous issue read below;
Penicillin AND D. Hodgkin

When I met with Hodgkin in the summer of 1981 in Canada, it was not luck,rather a long struggle. I loved Chemistry and I studied crystallography with great peoples like D Van Der Helm and my supervisor J J ZUCKERMAN at the University of Oklahoma.
More than 30 novel organotin compounds have been synthesized by me and some of Zuckerman's group.
We solved the crystal structure of most of these compounds and the work published in American Journals.
On this page you see one of my compounds. The unique hexameric ring structure of organotinphosphate(see figure on the right on this page) .
See Inorg.Chem.,1982,21,960. These compounds are fungicides,miticides,surface disinfectants,anthelmintics and antifouling agents.
My fascinations by the crystal structures of biologically active compounds have been inspired by the works of DOROTHY CROWFOOT HODGKIN,L Pauling (whome I met in GERMANY),and by the remarkable scientist O HAYAISHI( the discoverer of dioxygenases enzymes and prostaglandin D2 roles in sleep regulation.).
Hodgkin was born in Egypt,then a british colony. Her father was a school supervisor. She graduated from Oxford University in 1931.
In Cambridge University she worked with John D. Bernal.She stayed rest of her life in Oxford till her retirementin 1977.
Hodgkin discovered the structure of penicillin in 1945,(figure with black background). Her determination of the structure of vitamin B12 earned her the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
She spent most of her life in determination of INSULIN structure.
One biography about her said " more than any other scientist,she personified the transformation of crystallography from a black art into an indispensable scientific tool..." More on HODGKIN click on "Walking with Hodgkin"
Past issues

"Honey I Love You" - This is the title of a book on the chemistry of honey, published in Arabic by the editor of IRFAN.
The following is an excerpt from the book:
Honey is very rich in free amino acids, enzymes, glucose, fructose, organic acids, aromatic substances, zinc, magnesium and many other beneficial ingredients,
Take a tablespoon in the morning and at night. Honey is the best healer as inspired by the Holy Qur'an [Bee, 69]. Honey destroys many micro-organisms including some gram negative and gram positive types.See Dig Dis Sci 1999,vol.44(3),pp 462-464,and Eur.J.Med.Res.1999,vol.26,pp126-130.Honey contains: 38.19% Fructose, 31.28%Glucose, 1.31%Sucrose, 7.31%Maltose. In each 100 grams of honey there are:.006milligram(mg) of vitamine B1, Riboflavine 0.06mg, Niacine 0.36mg, vitamine B6 .32mg, and pantothenic acid 0.11mg. Honey contains 30mg of calicium, chlorine, cupper, iron(3.4mg), Magnesium(13mg), Manganese(10mg), Phosphorous(60mg) and Zinc(0.5mg) all these minerals in 100grams of honey. All amino acids in one gram of honey are as follows(In mg); Alanine(2.07), Argenine(1.72), Aspargine and Glutamine(11.44), Aspartic acid(3.44), Cystine(0.47), Glutamic acid(2.94), Glycine(0.6), Histidine(3.84), Isoleucine(1.12), Leucine(1.03), Lysine(0.99), Methionine(0.33), Methionine Oxide(1.74), Ornithine(0.26), Phenylalanine(14.75), PROLINE(59.65), Tryptophane(3.84), and Valine(2.0). There are SIX unidentified organic acids represents (24.53mg), WHAT ARE THEY?. In 100 grams of dry honey there are 118.77 mg of all acids. Honey acidity is 3.9, the specific gravity at 20 degrees centigrade is 1.4225, the viscosity is 70 poises, one gallon of honey weighs 11 pounds and 13 ounces, in each 100 grams of honey there are 304 kilo calaorys. Honey contains 17.2% of water. The crystal structure of vitamin B-12, insulin and penicillin was solved by the chemist Nobel Laurette Dorothy C. Hodgkin in 1964. The editor (F A NASSER) has solved several crystal structures of biological compounds synthesized by NASSER using the same Approach used by D C Hodgkin.For questions about the secrets of long lovely life contact us. Can you imagine how beneficial honey is to your health?
I encourage readers to read " The limits of medicine" by Edward S. Golub.To quote some words...
"If the goal of scientific medicine is not to extend life indefintely,Is it to focus
on the heartbreak of the rare disorder that takes a life too soon"
Prevention is far better than intervention.Karl Popper argues"
A scientific hypothesis can never be verified;it can only be falsified".
Dear visitors ,the imagination must be understood.It's power goes beyond the limits of medicine.
Medicine creates it's own problem by focusing on specificity.
The history of medicine goes back to the first time when the power of suggestion"PLACEBO" was first used.
I am asking the readers:
Is death a defeat of science?
"WHOSE" suffering we will turn our knowledge and technology toward?
As Thomas KUHN argues,that the scientific revolution
is associated with "paradigm shifts"
Science"mature"when it is characterized by a"paradigm"

To be continued,your comments" my visitors"are valuable to me.
Thanx again.

Chemistry Nobel Laurette Dorothy C. Hodgkin (1910-1994) and Faik A. Nasser in Canada, 1981, during an International X-Ray Crystallography meeting

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Oct./1999 Netsearch

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

OF RAMADAN FASTING RESEARCH

O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint,

(Qur'an el Hakeem, 2:183)

Ayurvedic Medicine Simplified

SAFETY NOTE: ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE TREATING ANY CONDITION.

Penicillin AND D. Hodgkin

of EUROPEAN MEDICINE
by David W. Tschanz