HAZARAT ALI (RA)'s BEST IMMUNE BOOSTING FORMULA
HAZARAT ALI (RA)'s BEST IMMUNE BOOSTING FORMULA
Prof Waqar Hussain
Ali
Ibne Talib (RA) was a cousin and son-in-law of Islamic Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
and the 4th Caliph of Islamic Khilafat-e-Rashida. He was blessed with countless
virtues. Here is mention of only one virtue; knowledge and wisdom of physical
as well as spiritual world. The Holy Prophet PBUH said: "I am the CITY of
knowledge and Ali is its GATE….". People used to visit him and asked
questions. One day a person came to him and asked: What is immunity? He
replied: "Allah has bestowed a force in the body of person that counter the
invading diseases; this force of body is called immunity.
He further questioned: How to increase this immunity?
He replied:
1) By Food
2) By Peace of mind and body and soul
3) By positive and optimistic thinking
He continued explaining: Eat garlic, ginger,
turmeric and green leafy vegetables. Take full sleep and keep your thinking
positive and optimistic. It will boost your immunity to a level, that Allah,
with His Blessedness(Fazal) and Benevolence(Karam), will enhance your immunity
to a level that disease will never overcome your body to make you sick.
What today science says about his immune
boosting formula:
I: FOOD
It includes garlic, ginger, turmeric and green
leafy vegetable. What scientists and nutritionals say about these foods:
GARLIC is called Lahsin in Urdu and Allium
Sativum in science. It has been in use of Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, Roman,
Indian civilization as food as well as herbal medicine.
Hippocrates (Father of Medicine) Greek
physician 500 BC, prescribed garlic for variety of diseases. Pliny, Roman
physician, made a comprehensive list of garlic uses. Avicenna recommended
garlic for treatment of with variety of ailment. He said: It is a medicine
against infection diseases. Garlic was effectively used as anti-septic to
prevent gangrene during the World War 1 and World War 2.
Ingredient
of garlic includes Vitamin C and B and eight minerals including zinc.
Garlic and Immunity:
Garlic
increase white blood cell count and thus increase body's fighting force to
combat onslaught of germs. Garlic contain Allin (sulfur containing compound)
that boost the disease fighting response of white blood cells when they
encounter virus.
Research
In one of study, 146 healthy persons where
divided into two groups. One group was given garlic for three months. Other
group was given placebo (Medicine which has no physiological effect but only
psychological effect).
Later
on, the garlic group had 63% lower risk of getting flue and their cold duration
was 70% shorter.
Above
discussion and research clearly shows that garlic has immune boosting property.
GINGER
It is
called Adrak in Urdu and Zingibar officiate. Garlic has been used since
ancient times as food and herbal medicine, to treat variety of ailment due to
its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant effect, ginger may boost immune health.
Ginger is thought to kill virus.
Ingredient of ginger vitamin B, C, E and 8
minerals including zinc. Plus, enzymes like zingerone, shogaols, ginerol.
RESEARCH
A research was conducted by Agricultural
University of Hebei. In study, 600 hens were divided in two groups. One group
was given 0.1% ginger extract in diet. Other group was provided basal diet.
Result
showed that ginger group had increased egg weight, egg laying rate. Study also
showed ginger increased enzyme lysosomes; reflecting cellular immunity and
anti-infection ability of body.
Conclusion: Ginger extract no only improved
the bird’s anti-oxidant capacity, enhance immune system and is
anti-inflammatory.
TURMERIC
It is
called haldi in Urdu and curcuma longa in science. It has been in used
for a thousand year in different part of the world.
Ingredients include vitamins, minerals, 34
essential oils and curcuma and turmeric.
Turmeric is a natural way to help augment the
immune system by increasing immune modulating capacity of the body. Turmeric
also reduced depression.
As depression decrease immunity so it is
helpful in this regard as well.
It's
"Golden paste" is used all over the world for its magical
anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial property.
RESEARCH:
Some
research shows that both the active ingredient of turmeric (curcumin and
turmeric) have anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial, anti-viral and
anti-parasite activity.
Prof Manor
Garg (University of Newcastle) said: Curcumin is powerful anti-inflammatory
agent.
GREEN VEGETABLE:
Vegetable contains wide variety of vitamins,
mineral. It is source of chemical involved in signaling that is essential for
fully functioning of immune system. They do this by lymphocytes (IELS) function
properly.
RESEARCH:
Studies
have shown vegetable provide beta-carotene, vitamin C, Vitamin E, mineral Zinc,
Selenium- all considered immune system booster.
Beta-carotene is a powerful anti-oxidant that reduce inflammation and lift
immunity by increasing disease fighting cells in the body.
Vitamin C: (Ascorbic acid) is anti-viral
agent, it increases white blood cell. In Wuhan, Chinese gave mega doses of
vitamin C to corona virus patients. Vitamin C is necessary to make interferon
which stop virus by killing infected cells.
VITAMIN E
It
scavenges free radical responsible for oxidative damage of cells. It is
anti-oxidant.
Vitamin D reduce the risk of viral infection
including respiratory tract infection. It is immune margilator (controlling
factor), there are vitamin D receptors in all of your white blood cells and
DNA. It supports T cell (made by thymus gland) which protect us from pathogens.
Zinc is
a crucial component of 200 enzymes, vital for our immune system. Zn++ ion
(ZN +2) is activator of many enzymes like phosphatase, carbonic acid
anhydrase. Zinc activate T cell, that attack cancerous cells and regulate
immune response. Zinc cut down common cold by 40%.
Selenium is a co-enzyme in 25 different enzymes.
It is anti-oxidant.
PEACE
Peace
mean calm, cool and quiet mind. This solace of mind can be obtained by two-way:
Proper sleep and worried less mind during awake.
Proper sleep:
Research
from Germany have found sleep improve immune T-cell that are type of immune
cells that fight against extracellular pathogens e.g. Flu virus.
Research: Dr. Stoyan Dimitrov (University of
Tubingen) says: "Stress hormones adrenaline and nor-adrenaline and pro
inflammatory molecule prostaglandins inhibit the stickiness of adhesion
molecule integrin (Protein).
Dr. Dimitrov further said: "Because the level of adrenaline,
nor-adrenaline and prostaglandins are low during sleep time, the stickiness is
important because in order for T-cell to kill virus, infected cells or cancer
cells"
Here I want to mention that when animals get
sick, they isolate themselves to a corner and then rest or sleep. Perhaps
nature has bestowed a sleep, a healing power.
Back to
topic, T-cell play important role in the body immune system. When cells in the
body recognize a virally infected cell, they activate integrin, then allow them
to attack to and kill infected cells.
Researchers studied two groups; one group
took proper sleep and the other stayed awake all night. Those who slept well;
their T-cells showed higher level of integrin activation than the T-cell of
those who were awake. Result showed that sleep has the potential to improve
T-cell functioning.
Furthermore, stress hormones dip while the
body is asleep. High level of stress hormones might decrease the T-cell immune
response to kill pathogen; Dimitrov added.
3 THINKING:
Good
thinking includes positive and optimistic thinking.
Positive Thinking:
Our
forefathers had been advising us to keep positive thinking. If one sees glass
half-filled is positive; the other who see it half-empty is negative.
RESEARCH
Ben
Shaanan had 50 years’ clinical experience, he found that positive thinking can
cause physiologic effect.
An
experiment was conducted on mice. Researchers stimulated dopaminergic neuron in
ventral tegmental area (VTA); it is a region of brain involved in reward-related
stimuli. When VTA is stimulated; it endorses that work done is right and thus
person keep on doing that work again and again.
Researchers found that "positive
thinking" mice had improved immunity compared to "non-positive control".
When reward neurons were stimulated by drug CNO, their immune system improved
against bacteria.
To exclude confounding factors, the experiment is repeated with mice
having sympathetic nerve damage by 6-OHDA (it is ox dopamine and is a neurotoxic
to destroy dopaminergic and noradrenergic neuron in brain.
Researchers had idea that mice are unable to
signal "happiness", even though their "reward" neuron are
triggered, thus their immune system should not improve.
Sum and
substance of experiment is that researchers found that "positive
thinking" mice had an improved immune response compared to non-positive
control mice.
Optimistic thinking
What a
man thinks, that becomes reality. My father Nazar Hussain (Poet of English)
used to say a list of sentences in one blow:
Think you are strong; strong you become
Think you are healthy; healthy you become
Think you are wise; wise you become
And so on………
I used to listen the sentences but couldn't
understand. Recently I came to know the science of this thinking pattern.
What
one thinks, one speaks; acts accordingly and that become reality. For example,
a clerk Aslam comes late in office. His colleagues, boss inquiries, he speaks a
lie that his motorcycle got punctured. Everybody speak in office; Aslam's
motorcycle got punctured. Later on, Aslam's motorcycle actually gets punctured.
Such incident frequently happens in our lives.
Another example, phone bell rings; you think
that May be Sajad is calling from UK. You tell others that you thought, it was
a Sajad’s call. After a while, bell rings again and there is Sajad on the other
side of the phone. Such incidences endorse the chain; think, speak, act and get
result.
Joseph Murphy wrote best-seller book
"The power of your subconscious mind", Napoleon Hill wrote best of
the best book "Think and grow rich"; and Ronda Byrne wrote the
secret; The Hero; The power; the Magic- all above book have explored the
'secret' that don't think about what is happening; rather think what you wish
to be and that wishful thinking will become reality. For example, if someone is
ill; he shouldn't think about his illness rather must think that he is
recovering and is almost recovered. It means think about the reality which you
want. That thinking will bring fruit. It is an optimistic way of thinking. And
such wishful thinking and imagination is called law of attraction, that is popular
in many countries and score of people practice it.
-----and she recovered. The old lady was not thinking
and talking about the prevailing reality; disease, death but she was thinking
and speaking about the reality, she wanted. And in the course of time, what she
was thinking and talking became the reality. And she recovered and doctor were
astonished and startled. This patterns of thinking, and “appealing” and faith
is what called in religion "prayer".
So, positive and optimistic thinking improve the immune system involving-all
physical, mental and spiritual activation.
There are 600 thousand animal species on
earth. If any animal gets sick, doesn't visit physician but take rest, sleep
and utilize his natural immune system for curing. In the absence of drug/
vaccine against corona, human is left with one choice to fight it with their natural
immune system. Hazarat Ali (RA) has put forward a three step formula, 1400 year
ago, to boost immune system, thus by utilizing this formula, mankind can fight
successfully the coronavirus assault and by passing through "The Gate"
of knowledge and wisdom, we can enter "The City" of health, happiness
and blessings of all kind.
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