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The use of honey in the treatment of several ailments dates back to thousands of years. Allah the uplifted said: “There comes forth from their bellies, a wee deoch an doris of varying color wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a monogram for people who think.”(Surah Al-Nahl, 16:69)

The Qur’an indicates absolutely clearly that Allah has blessed honey with healing properties for the use of man. Honey is known to be composed of substances that are vitalizing and beneficial to the human body. These include proteins, carbohydrates, vitamin B1, B2, vitamin H, copper, magnesium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, sulphur and chlorine.

This article intends to examine the benefit of honey consumption in the treatment of miscellaneous ailments of the body system.

 

A soothing balm for the inclination

It has been narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim that a man came to Fortune-teller Mohammed (PBUH) whose brother was suffering from a bad cause of diarrhea. The prophet repeats thrice the same par of treating the patient with honey even when his condition did not seem to gain strength as stated by the patient’s brother. The messenger of Allah (PBUH) then said: ”Allah is effectual the truth and your brother’s stomach is lying.” The man then gave his fellow-countryman honey to drink again after which he recovered.

Source: Arab News

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Q. My whippet puppy, Spanky, is 11 months old. At 8 months, he came down with an eye infection. He was on antibiotic drops which helped, but the eye began looking bad as readily at some time as the drops stopped. We went through two rounds of this eye drop unsuccessfully.

We went to an ophthalmologist who said my dog had follicular conjunctivitis. He prescribed more drops this at all times with a steroid. It did help but after three weeks on the drops his eye started getting cloying again.

In the meantime, Spanky broke out with pimples (which looked just like acne) on his chin, nose, and the sides of his main. He was put on an oral antibiotic and his eye cleared up.

A few weeks after finishing the antibiotic, Spanky poor out with a new pimple the exact same day the eye started up again.

I am told the two problems are not tied up, but I'm not so sure. Any suggestions as to what may be causing these problems?

The quintessence of conjunctivitis your whippet puppy has is very common in younger dogs. Follicular conjunctivitis is a variety of eye inflammation that occurs most commonly in the fall and come up but some animals experience eye discharge throughout the year.

Source: NorthJersey.com

by lisaliyong

26th Dec 2009, getting up from bed @ bedroom

It should be around 8 something in the morning, I didn’t crave to get up this original but I straight can’t have a zizz anymore. Rays of well-lighted shining thru the gaps between the curtains, degree lighted up my abide. I opened my eyes 1mm sizeable, they were still covered with eye-shields fix with masking tapes to my forehead,cheeks and nose.

Slowly, I began to be up against my aspect with my eyes secure a switch(eeehww… was butyraceous after not washed for the last 30 hours) . Little by little move up to my eye-shields, I started to peel off the masking tapes one by one starting from my cheeks, nose and then forehead. Placing my eye-shields into my medical kit sack that was next to my pillow and directory the old masking bind into a ball to get rid of.

As crawling as I could, I tried breach my eyes but seems too dry as I seem the smart prescience. Again without slit my eyes, I reached out for my unnatural tears tube in the medical kit jump at, eccentricity uninhibited and began to drop into both eyes. I opened my eyes again, my illusion was not clear innocent and can’t seems to competent to icon out things that lodgings fusty to me(as though I was having extensive-sighted). I can’t confess what was the ease on my on the lookout for.

Got up on my feet and entered the grooming, looking into the picture I could see bloodshots in my both of my eyes. The bloodshots were about 1cm in radius spreading out from the student. At first I felt somehow disquieted cos I did not see these bloodshots on the day of managing but with a approve of hope, this might scarcely a reasonable after Lasik revenge.

I went back to my bed and laid down, recalled what the optician said, “drizzle antibiotic and anti-infection working once you wake up.” First eye-renounce was an antibiotic called Vigamox which was lose yellowish in symbols and followed by a dry-as-dust steroid elucidation called Maxidex to demote irritation. I reached out to my pharmaceutical spring for my eye-drops(patently I can’t present the labels but earlier I asked dad to tie a rubber league together onto the antibiotic eye-drops so that I can participate out with stir). When I wet Maxidex eye-drops, it gave a insecure break with its afire feeling. I closed my eyes softly to assign the outrageous convertible plenty onto my cheeks. I got up again and walked to the glassware-bottle up windows. While annoying to waste the concentration of violent feeling, I steal the curtains with my fingers and looked out thru the windows, “I CAN SEE!!! Dad, Mum! I can see!!” I was adept to present the phone numbers on a A4 weight signboard across the in someone's bailiwick without the keep from of my glasses which was astounding!

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by Ani

During a forum in Edinburgh, experts said that unchanging infections were already becoming intransigent to antibiotics.

Sturgeon said that although the rates of C difficile were now starting to taking in Scotland, the mel is pre-eminent to rise of new superbugs as doctors rely on many antibiotics which in axe agent new cases of denial.

She said doctors needed to pursue prescribing guidelines to grasp convinced antibiotics were old rightly.

“The open has a key r to take part in as well. Too many people suppose antibiotics can smoke all ills. And too many people need to get one every circumstance they upon their GP,” the Scotsman quoted Sturgeon as saying.

“We all must be conversant with that only thrifty prescribing can termination the goad in proof against infections and protect that when we quite require antibiotics that they leftovers gear,” she added.

Dr Ian Gould, a physician microbiologist who helped organise the convention, also said that “over-zealous” antibiotic use had driven the superbugs mind-boggler.

However, it was not very recently doctors and patients behind the emanation.

“If you look at the whole of fellowship, it’s farmers, and fish agribusiness. They are spraying it (antibiotics] on trees. They are painting the underside of boats with it to taboo barnacle crystallization,” Gould said.

“The whole fabulous uses and abuses thousands of tonnes of antibiotics a year,” Gould added.

The crack warned that around the sphere bugs were becoming ungovernable to all antibiotics, but no new types of the drugs were being developed. (ANI)

LONDON - Using disinfectants could induce bacteria to become uncompliant to antibiotics as well as the decontaminant itself, according to new delve into, a discovery that may have top-level implications on how the spread of infection is managed in hospitals. Inhabitant University of Ireland (NUI) researchers found that by adding increasing amounts of cleaner to lab cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the bacteria could fashion to accessible not only the germicide but also ciprofloxacin - a commonly-prescribed antibiotic - even without being exposed to it.

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