Posted on 06/26/2002 6:49:24 PM PDT by dighton
Wanna be healthy? Eat lizards every day
Suvan Meunlow from Thailand dislikes medicines designed to cure diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. He follows an old recipe: eat a lizard a day, and it will help you get rid of any disease. The man says, the panacea is always available and costs nothing.
The only thing necessary for lizard treatment is to be skillful to catch a reptile without touching its tail, and then immediately swallow it. The medicine guarantees a quick recovery. Suvan began his lizard treatment thirty years ago, at the age of eighteen. The boy had stomach problems, and the pain could not be relieved. Doctors were helpless in the situation: any anesthetic medicines they prescribed were of no effect for the boy. Then a neighbor recommended Suvan to eat a small lizard every day, it was specially stressed that reptiles should not be chewed. Suvan followed the advice and took to eating lizards since that very time.
As the man says now, he can hardly live a day without lizards. As soon as Suvan began eating lizards, stomach pain vanished and never troubled him since that time. Nowadays Suvan eats up to 15 lizards a day: the remedy has cured not only his stomach but it has raised his spirits as well. Eating lizards has improved Suvan’s potency, and it is getting stronger every year.
Khalid took to visiting the Prophet frequently. He would listen for hours to the talks of the Prophet. He would drink at the fountain of wisdom and virtue that was Muhammad, Messenger of Allah. One day Khalid and Fadhl bin Abbas (cousin of the Prophet) visited him in the house of his wife, Maimuna, who was an aunt of Khalid. Just then a Bedouin friend had sent a cooked dish as a gift to the Prophet, and as was his custom, the Prophet asked the guests to stay and share his meal. A cloth was spread on the ground and around it they all sat-the Prophet, his wife, and the two guests.As the Prophet extended his hand towards the dish, Maimuna asked, "O Messenger of Allah, do you know what this is?"
"No."
"This is roast lizard!"
The Prophet withdrew his hand. "This meat I shall not eat", he said.
"O Messenger of Allah", asked Khalid, "is it forbidden?"
"No."
"Can we eat it?"
"Yes, you may do so."
Maimuna also abstained from the food, but Khalid and Fadhl ate their fill of the dish. Roast lizard was a favourite among the desert Arabs. Apparently it was a favourite with Khalid too, for he ate heartily!
A wondrous tale!
By the hump of the Prophet's camel (PBUH), my great great (etc.) grandmother's life was thus spared.
-- Fatima the Goat.
Al Bukhari - Volume 7, Book 71, Number 590:
Narrated Anas:" The climate of Medina did not suit some people, so the Prophet ordered them to follow his shepherd, i.e. his camels, and drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they followed the shepherd that is the camels and drank their milk and urine till their bodies became healthy. Then they killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. When the news reached the Prophet he sent some people in their pursuit. When they were brought, he cut their hands and feet and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron."
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