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    • “Scientist” inspried by insights from Prophet Mohammad: Camel urine may cure cancer

    By No Such Thing As Blasphemy • • 3 comments
    Ain’t she creepy?

    Are you ready to be amused and grossed out at once?

    Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid is responsible for one of the Kingdom’s greatest national achievements in the field of science for her work which began with the urine of camels and concluded in a potential cure for cancer.  After spending more than five years in lab research, this Saudi scientist and faculty member from King Abdul Aziz University (KAAU) and President of the Tissues Culture Unit at King Fahd Center for Medical Research, has discovered that nano-particles in the urine of camels can attack cancer cells with success.

    So that is one of Saudi Arabia’s “greatest national achievements in the field of science”? I tells me quite a bit about how that country is doing scientifically otherwise.

    Speaking to the Saudi Gazette, Dr. Khorshid claimed that she was inspired by Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) medical advice and that camel urine consists of natural substances that work to eradicate malignant cells and maintain the number of healthy cells in a cancer patient.

    “This treatment is not an invention, but rather, taken from our Prophet’s legacy,” she remarked. A Hadith narrated by Al-Bukhari (2855) and Muslim (1671) claims that some people came to Madina and fell ill with bloated abdomens. The Prophet (pbuh) told them to combine the milk and urine of a camel and drink that, after which they recovered. A swollen abdomen may indicate edema, liver disease or cancer.
    Of course, it would be more likely for bloating to be caused by indigestion and gas. And if those guys drank the disgusting mix and subsequently got better, it makes this conjecture a lot more likely than liver disease or cancer.
    “We have researched and studied (camel urine) for seven years, during which we have tested the effectiveness of camel urine in fighting cancer to prerequisites set by the International Cancer Institute,” she explained.   According to her published study on the subject, the clinical trial her team conducted on patients indicated that the medicine (capsules and syrup) did not entail any harmful side effects.
    No citation, as it happens, or any mention of how the journalist got the bit about “nano-particles”.
    She added that she advises all of her volunteer patients to use fresh camel milk and urine with the two components given individually for a period of time and then combined together later. Other illnesses, including vitiligo (depigmentation in certain areas of the skin), eczema and psoriasis (an autoimmune disease which affects the skin and joints).  However, Dr. Khorshid adds that she will only dispense this medicine to patients on a non-voluntary basis when pharmaceutical companies obtain a license to do so. Currently, the medication is still undergoing tests.
    The poor grammar not withstanding, do they dispense medications in Saudi Arabia non-voluntarily? Is that how it works?
    Her study has obtained the formal approval of the Ethics Committee of Scientific Research at KAAU. Meanwhile, her research has earned her team the gold medal for innovation in the Kingdom in 2008, and the medicine was also chosen as one of the six best innovations out of 600 entrants at the International Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX) 2009, held in Malaysia in May.
    In case she wins the Nobel Prize, I will be looking forward to seeing her accepting it in her Niqab.
    It is really amazing the length to which devout Muslims goes to prove how miraculous their religious texts are. Not very hygienic, though.

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