Prophetic medicine: Talbina in islam.
PROPHETIC MEDICINE: TALBINA
"The talbina relieves the patient's heart and dispenses it some of their sadness."
Source : Agencies / 14 May 2014
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) belongs to the grass family, Poaceae (Gramineae). It is the fourth most important cereal crop after wheat, maize and rice and is among the top ten crop plants in the world. Barley is classified as spring or winter types, two-rowed or six-rowed, hulled or hulless by presence or absence of hull tightly adhering to the grain and malting or feed by end-use type.
Six rowed barley can produce 25-60 grains, while two-rowed barley produces 25-30 grains per spike. Wild barley is two-rowed and mostcultivated barley is of the six-rowed type. Globally over 136 million tones of barley are produced annually on about 56 million hectares.
Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) used to recommend talbina for the sick and for which suffered too by a dead person. "She (may Allaah be pleased with her) said:" I heard that the Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wa Salaam) said: "the talbina gives rest to the patient's heart and makes it active and helps relieve your pain and sorrow." [Sahih al - Bukhari (5325)].
Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said that whenever one of their dying relatives, women is met and is dispersed (returned to their homes), except for relatives and close friends.
She (may Allah be pleased with her) was with them in order to prepare a pot of talbina.
After the Tharid (a dish prepared with meat and bread) is prepared and the talbina poured over it. "Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) would say (to women)," eat it, because I have heard that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa Salaam) said: "the talbina relieves the patient's heart and dispenses it some of their sadness." [Sahih al - Bukhari (5058)].
Hisham's father (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: "Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) used to recommend the talbina and although it was used to say that no you would like (for the patient), was beneficial." " [Sahih al - Bukhari (5326)].
The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa Salaam) said: "I encourage you to use what you don't like, but beneficial (Talbina) for the soul of Muhammad one whose hand is, cleanses the stomach of one of you as you clean the dirt in the face with water." [Hakim (7455) Mustadrak, Sahih Dhahabi as mentioned in ' Talkhees ", extracted from Maktaba Shaamilah, see also Mustadrak (8245), whose chain is in the condition of Bukhari as Dhahabi mentioned"].
Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated: "If someone from the family of the Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wa Salaam) is sick, the Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wa Salaam) said: ' the (talbina) relieves the heart of pain and clean the diseased heart as well as what cleans the dirt from your face with water." [Saheeh Sunan Ibn Maja (3445), Hasan hadeeth].
Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated that the Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wa Salaam) said: "you should eat profitability even if it is unpleasant to eat (Talbina), i.e. the stock." If any member of the family of the Messenger of Allah was ill, the pot would continue in the fire until one of two things, either the person recovered or died "." [Saheeh Sunan Ibn Maja (3446) Hasan hadeeth].
Recipe
The Talbina is made by adding 1-2 tablespoons barley flour (must be 100% whole wheat flour of barley) and a cup and a half of water. Put slow fire for 10-15 minutes (optional: add milk or yogurt and sweetened with honey). This can also be used to thicken foods for sauces, soups, dishes, etc.
Alternatively, you can add 1-2 tablespoons barley flour (must be 100% whole wheat flour of barley) to one and a half cups of milk. Put slow fire for 10-15 minutes (optional: add water or yogurt and sweetened with honey).
Talbina mixture can then put it in the blender with fresh or frozen fruit or ground flax seed. etc can be mixed together to make a delicious smoothie of talbina.
Drink at least one cup daily.
By Karima Burns / 16 May 2013
Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “The stomach is the central basin of the body, and the veins are connected to it. When the stomach is healthy, it passes on its condition to veins, and in turn the veins will circulate the same and when the stomach is putrescence, the veins will absorb such putrescence and issue the same”.
1999 AD
“The diet of the future will not be designed to lose weight, but to cheat death. Within the next few years, scientists hope to meld increasing knowledge about the genetic makeup of the human body with the equally promising use of food as medicine to customize diets that can forestall, treat or even prevent disease.”- The Los Angeles Times
Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) used to recommend At-Talbina for the sick and for such a person as grieved over a dead person. She used to say, "I heard Allah's Apostle (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) saying, 'At-Talbina’ gives rest to the heart of the patient and makes it active and relieves some of his sorrow and grief. " In fact, the prophet used to “prescribe” food for ailments even more than he prescribed herbs or medicines.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used everything from barley soup to honey to camel’s milk to heal his followers and advised them to eat certain foods to prevent or cure other ailments. In fact, food is one of the oldest and most respected healing tools available to man. Even the first fruits of paradise - the apple and/or the pomegranate - have hundreds of curative properties. The Chinese and Indian healers have used the properties of food to heal for thousands of years.
Modern science is now “discovering” the power that food has. Bookshelves at the store are filled with books on Ayurvedic medicine, books like Eat Right 4 Your Type, hundreds of books on how to detoxify your body using diet and an equal number of books touting certain ways of eating such as macrobiotic or vegan as a “cure all” for any disease. Other books give specific recipes or lists of foods that cure various diseases.
The Los Angeles Times reported a few years ago that, “...some experts are already espousing the medicinal power of certain foods to some patients. They are advising menopausal women to drink soy milk, which is thought to ease hot flashes and other symptoms. They are suggesting fish high in omega-3 oils, like salmon, herring and mackerel, to patients at risk of cardiovascular disease or breast cancer. And for men fearing prostate cancer, they are advising consumption of more tomato-based products, such as spaghetti sauce--because tomatoes are high in lycopene, thought to reduce the risk of this disease” (Cimons).
In reality, healing with food is one of the oldest methods of healing known to man and is not a “new” concept in any way. It is also one of the most economical and globally available methods of healing known to man. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used it more than a thousand years ago and even a thousand years before him the Chinese used it.
In fact, in areas where medicine and herbs are not available, food can provide a solution to many medical problems. In many developing countries where people cannot afford to buy medicines, traditional healers commonly hand out prescriptions in terms of berries or cups of oats.
In the book, Smoothies for Life, the following recipe is given for preventing osteoporosis:
Smoothie
1 cup nonfat yogurt
1/2 cup nonfat milk
1/4 cup pitted dates
1 frozen banana
3 tablespoons of tahini
Add a sprig of mint, blend together and drink.
Dates and Tahini are credited with giving this nutritious shake a big calcium boost. In fact, foods like humus, zaaatar or anything else with a large proportion of tahini or sesame seeds will help prevent osteoporosis.
In the book, Ayurvedic Cooking for Westerners, Amadea Morningstar gives the following recipe to heal candida and depression stemming from such a condition:
Minestrone Soup
2/3 cup dried mung beans, navy beans and chick peas
8 cups water
1 bay leaf
Cook the beans until done (soak overnight first).
Wash and chop:
2 potatoes
1 carrot
3 inches of leek
2 stalks of celery
1 cup of fresh green vegetables
Add these vegetables to the pot with the beans and:
1 cup rose petal tomato sauce
1/2 cup white basmati rice
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. sweet basil
1/2 tsp. dried thyme
Simmer for 45 minutes and serve.
In the book, New Foods for Healing, the editors of Prevention Magazine list recipes for almost every disease including the following recipe for high cholesterol:
Oatmeal-Apricot Cookies
2/3 cup dried apricots, coarsely chopped
1/3 cup boiling water
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
1/4 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
1/4 cup fat-free egg substitute
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
2 1/2 cups oats
Combine the apricots in the food processor with the water until well-blended. Add this to the sugar and butter in another bowl. Add the egg substitute and vanilla. Beat. Add the rest of the ingredients except the oats and mix again. Sprinkle the oats over the mix, stirring. Bake at 350.
The key in this recipe is, of course, the oats. Oat bran and oatmeal, in fact, are still the most popular ways to lower cholesterol. Some doctors even recommend that taking 1/2 cup of oat bran a day will cure cholesterol (Kowalski).
In Healing with Whole Foods, Paul Pitchford gives lists of foods that help to cure various diseases along with helpful recipes such as the following dish for diabetics:
Millet with Onions
2 cups millet, soaked
1/2 onion, diced
2 carrots, diced
1/4 cup hijiki, soaked and cut
6 cups water
1/2 tsp. sea salt
Toasted sesame seeds
Layer vegetables in order given. Add millet, water and salt. Cover Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Simmer 30 minutes. Stir and served sprinkled with sesame seeds.
The secret to this recipe is the millet, a very inexpensive and common grain.
Yuhanna bin Masawayh (known in the West as Mesue), an accomplished Arab pharmacist, said, “A physician who can cure by using only diet without drugs, is the most successful and skilled of all physicians.” This is certainly true if you are on a budget, are taking medications that may interfere with herbs, you want to seek a simpler solution, you want to minimize side effects, or you live in a country where many things are unavailable.
Certainly food should be considered a very real alternative to importing special medicines and herbs or taking risky medicines. The following website has a partial list of some foods and diets that cure illness: http://www.curezone.com/foods/
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