What are the benefits of vinegar?
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The questioner : Have you tried and drunk vinegar?
The Shaykh : I have not tried it.
The questioner : Try it, and you will not lose out. I was at your age, and I would go up the stairs and my joints would hurt, and I would hold onto the railing while I was still young. Then I read in an American book by Dr. Madison that this vinegar, if drunk mixed with water—two teaspoons or one teaspoon in a glass of water—
The Shaykh : I have many questions now. There are different types of vinegar.
The questioner : Apple vinegar.
The Shaykh : Listen to me, there are types of vinegar, and you have just specified apple vinegar. The grade of one differs from another, especially those who trade in it; one spoonful is worth many spoonfuls. So, which vinegar is the spoonful you are describing?
The questioner : The vinegar found in the associations: the European or American type mixed with water at a five percent concentration.
The Shaykh : How do we know this?
The questioner : If Allah wills, I will send you a bottle of vinegar.
The Shaykh : My sir, that is a separate research matter, no problem.
The questioner : It is available in Oman, here in the supermarket, my sir, at a five percent concentration. And your question is valid and scientific, because vinegar is one hundred percent; if you gave a person a spoonful of it straight, it would kill him.
The Shaykh : That is it.
The questioner : So this vinegar is not concentrated but a solution, with a ratio of five parts vinegar and ninety-five parts water.
The Shaykh : It is here.
The questioner : Yes, that is what is needed.
The Shaykh : What is written on it? Apple vinegar. What is the percentage written?
The questioner : Its acidity is four percent, which is less than required, so that is fine. Four percent; they bring it from Europe concentrated, and they dilute it here to five percent. This is four percent, so the water ratio is higher.
The Shaykh : Does this need to be poured into a glass of water?
The questioner : You put just one spoonful with a glass of water.
The Shaykh : A glass of water for tea or for water? And then there are long glasses; which one do you mean?
The questioner : I mean water...
The questioner : This cup.
The questioner : This...
The Shaykh : Okay, now we put a spoonful of this vinegar in a glass of water from this cup.
The questioner : Or half a glass.
The Shaykh : Or half a glass, okay. And then?
The questioner : Three times a day. If it raises your blood pressure, specifically because you mentioned that you have a lot of blood.
The Shaykh : No, that was in the past; now the blood is low, now it is ten and a half.
The questioner : If Allah wills, this will benefit you because it raises the pressure and regulates it.
The Shaykh : My pressure is approximately, I do not want it to be raised because I am between fourteen and fifteen for the systolic, and nine for the diastolic. Is it suitable for me to raise the pressure?
The questioner : If you drink one spoonful with water and you notice you get a headache, stop; it will not harm you more than that. If you do not feel any headache, then drink it continuously three times a day.
The questioner : Before eating or after?
The questioner : It does not matter.
The Shaykh : It does not matter, okay.
The questioner : But the taste is not acceptable; it is sour.
The questioner : But the taste is not acceptable, it is sour. What do we do? We mix it with a little water and a little honey.
The questioner : Or with the salad.
The questioner : With the salad or with the food.
The Shaykh : For the salad, I prefer vinegar over lemon, yes.
The questioner : If, my Shaykh, the vinegar is taken, this honey and this apple...
The Shaykh : Everything is present... Okay, presenting this recipe: vinegar mixed with water, for joint pain?
The questioner : Yes, for joint pain, and by the permission of Allah, it will not pass a week before you see an effect. If it is, for example, in the stairs, I only took it for three days. Because what is its effect? The doctors say, because the doctor who wrote it is a specialized American doctor, he wrote that when this vinegar enters the body, it passes between the joints where there is some deposited calcium, which is what causes the pain. So this dissolves the calcium. The deposited calcium is not the calcium of the bones. So its benefit is that if the pain comes from calcium in the bones, this vinegar, by the permission of Allah, will remove it.
The Shaykh : And if it is not like that?
The questioner : If it is not like that? I have, if Allah wills, other recipes available that I will write down for you, and they will reach you.
The Shaykh : A question comes to mind. You said you used this when you were young. Do you think the effect of this treatment inThe Shaykh : an old, elderly person, like my case, is the same as its effect on you in the prime of your youth?
The questioner : I gave it to people, and I have been practicing this for two years, not just today. So for me, when I traveled, I prescribed it to a man I think was sixty years old, whose father was the muezzin of theThe Shaykh : Husayn Mosque. Truly, he used to ride his donkey to the mosque, and he came and said, "May Allah reward you with good," and... the praise and commendation, how...
The Shaykh : In any case, if Allah wills, now you will be a third experiment in a Shaykh who is seventy-four years old, and you will take it as an example.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : What is the doctor's opinion? Inform us.
The Doctor: As for our science, this is not... The pain in the joints has many causes; it can be a deficiency in calcium, or erosion in the bone, or friction, or inflammation, and it has many things. It is not thought to be suitable for all cases.
The Shaykh : This is what we are talking about.
The questioner : But there is no harm in trying it.
The Shaykh: Correct.
The questioner : Did you take an X-ray... it is necessary.
The Shaykh : What is the doctor's opinion?
The Doctor: By Allah, the X-ray will of course show if there is friction or erosion, or if there is narrowing in some joints. Sometimes the joint is not moving like this; sometimes there is narrowing due to the presence of calcifications that restrict movement, which increases the pain. So there is no objection to taking the X-ray; it is better.
The questioner : Shaykh, do you feel severe pain in movement?
The Shaykh : By Allah, previously I was not bothered, but now there is some sensation of pain.
The questioner : The truth is, I have an aunt who has the same thing, so we took her to America, and perhaps the doctor knows this. They put a piece of stainless steel, and they put it in place of this knee, and it attaches to the bone, and she walks, by Allah, like a gazelle.
The Shaykh : This happens in some cases.
Another questioner : There is erosion, and the operation takes an hour, and after four days she walks. It is something amazing with them, yes.
The Shaykh : Subhan Allah.
The questioner : ... I will use it and verify, and if this matter is established, it is possible...
The Shaykh : But this, Mr. Tariq, is not specific to the knee, meaning now there is pain here and in the arm and the upper arm, meaning there is a disease, what do we want to call it? Nerves as well?
The questioner : No, if it is, for example, it can be in the bone or in the tendon.
The Shaykh : The research in it.
The questioner : It is here, the pain...?
The Shaykh : Look, the pain here, I feel it here.
The questioner : Here?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : This is in the bone. This usually happens a lot. This pain here happens a lot from the movement of the hand, from writing... they are affected, and this disease becomes... the tendon with the bone, this connection, from the movement, severe pain occurs in it.
The questioner : After this, there are drinks, my sir, fragrant herbs that are beneficial and good. If Allah wills, I will write them for you. The Arabs write them for joint pain, for nerve pain, and for back pain, which is in this topic, in the yellow books that people have forgotten and do not look at, and even if they read them, they do not understand them. If Allah wills, I will write them for you and send them to you.
The Shaykh : I have not tried it.
The questioner : Try it, and you will not lose out. I was at your age, and I would go up the stairs and my joints would hurt, and I would hold onto the railing while I was still young. Then I read in an American book by Dr. Madison that this vinegar, if drunk mixed with water—two teaspoons or one teaspoon in a glass of water—
The Shaykh : I have many questions now. There are different types of vinegar.
The questioner : Apple vinegar.
The Shaykh : Listen to me, there are types of vinegar, and you have just specified apple vinegar. The grade of one differs from another, especially those who trade in it; one spoonful is worth many spoonfuls. So, which vinegar is the spoonful you are describing?
The questioner : The vinegar found in the associations: the European or American type mixed with water at a five percent concentration.
The Shaykh : How do we know this?
The questioner : If Allah wills, I will send you a bottle of vinegar.
The Shaykh : My sir, that is a separate research matter, no problem.
The questioner : It is available in Oman, here in the supermarket, my sir, at a five percent concentration. And your question is valid and scientific, because vinegar is one hundred percent; if you gave a person a spoonful of it straight, it would kill him.
The Shaykh : That is it.
The questioner : So this vinegar is not concentrated but a solution, with a ratio of five parts vinegar and ninety-five parts water.
The Shaykh : It is here.
The questioner : Yes, that is what is needed.
The Shaykh : What is written on it? Apple vinegar. What is the percentage written?
The questioner : Its acidity is four percent, which is less than required, so that is fine. Four percent; they bring it from Europe concentrated, and they dilute it here to five percent. This is four percent, so the water ratio is higher.
The Shaykh : Does this need to be poured into a glass of water?
The questioner : You put just one spoonful with a glass of water.
The Shaykh : A glass of water for tea or for water? And then there are long glasses; which one do you mean?
The questioner : I mean water...
The questioner : This cup.
The questioner : This...
The Shaykh : Okay, now we put a spoonful of this vinegar in a glass of water from this cup.
The questioner : Or half a glass.
The Shaykh : Or half a glass, okay. And then?
The questioner : Three times a day. If it raises your blood pressure, specifically because you mentioned that you have a lot of blood.
The Shaykh : No, that was in the past; now the blood is low, now it is ten and a half.
The questioner : If Allah wills, this will benefit you because it raises the pressure and regulates it.
The Shaykh : My pressure is approximately, I do not want it to be raised because I am between fourteen and fifteen for the systolic, and nine for the diastolic. Is it suitable for me to raise the pressure?
The questioner : If you drink one spoonful with water and you notice you get a headache, stop; it will not harm you more than that. If you do not feel any headache, then drink it continuously three times a day.
The questioner : Before eating or after?
The questioner : It does not matter.
The Shaykh : It does not matter, okay.
The questioner : But the taste is not acceptable; it is sour.
The questioner : But the taste is not acceptable, it is sour. What do we do? We mix it with a little water and a little honey.
The questioner : Or with the salad.
The questioner : With the salad or with the food.
The Shaykh : For the salad, I prefer vinegar over lemon, yes.
The questioner : If, my Shaykh, the vinegar is taken, this honey and this apple...
The Shaykh : Everything is present... Okay, presenting this recipe: vinegar mixed with water, for joint pain?
The questioner : Yes, for joint pain, and by the permission of Allah, it will not pass a week before you see an effect. If it is, for example, in the stairs, I only took it for three days. Because what is its effect? The doctors say, because the doctor who wrote it is a specialized American doctor, he wrote that when this vinegar enters the body, it passes between the joints where there is some deposited calcium, which is what causes the pain. So this dissolves the calcium. The deposited calcium is not the calcium of the bones. So its benefit is that if the pain comes from calcium in the bones, this vinegar, by the permission of Allah, will remove it.
The Shaykh : And if it is not like that?
The questioner : If it is not like that? I have, if Allah wills, other recipes available that I will write down for you, and they will reach you.
The Shaykh : A question comes to mind. You said you used this when you were young. Do you think the effect of this treatment inThe Shaykh : an old, elderly person, like my case, is the same as its effect on you in the prime of your youth?
The questioner : I gave it to people, and I have been practicing this for two years, not just today. So for me, when I traveled, I prescribed it to a man I think was sixty years old, whose father was the muezzin of theThe Shaykh : Husayn Mosque. Truly, he used to ride his donkey to the mosque, and he came and said, "May Allah reward you with good," and... the praise and commendation, how...
The Shaykh : In any case, if Allah wills, now you will be a third experiment in a Shaykh who is seventy-four years old, and you will take it as an example.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : What is the doctor's opinion? Inform us.
The Doctor: As for our science, this is not... The pain in the joints has many causes; it can be a deficiency in calcium, or erosion in the bone, or friction, or inflammation, and it has many things. It is not thought to be suitable for all cases.
The Shaykh : This is what we are talking about.
The questioner : But there is no harm in trying it.
The Shaykh: Correct.
The questioner : Did you take an X-ray... it is necessary.
The Shaykh : What is the doctor's opinion?
The Doctor: By Allah, the X-ray will of course show if there is friction or erosion, or if there is narrowing in some joints. Sometimes the joint is not moving like this; sometimes there is narrowing due to the presence of calcifications that restrict movement, which increases the pain. So there is no objection to taking the X-ray; it is better.
The questioner : Shaykh, do you feel severe pain in movement?
The Shaykh : By Allah, previously I was not bothered, but now there is some sensation of pain.
The questioner : The truth is, I have an aunt who has the same thing, so we took her to America, and perhaps the doctor knows this. They put a piece of stainless steel, and they put it in place of this knee, and it attaches to the bone, and she walks, by Allah, like a gazelle.
The Shaykh : This happens in some cases.
Another questioner : There is erosion, and the operation takes an hour, and after four days she walks. It is something amazing with them, yes.
The Shaykh : Subhan Allah
Allah did not send down a disease except that He sent down for it a cure, and He who knows it knows it, and He who does not know it does not know it.
ما أنزل الله داء إلا وأنزل له دواء ، علمه من علمه وجهله من جهلهThe questioner : ... I will use it and verify, and if this matter is established, it is possible...
The Shaykh : But this, Mr. Tariq, is not specific to the knee, meaning now there is pain here and in the arm and the upper arm, meaning there is a disease, what do we want to call it? Nerves as well?
The questioner : No, if it is, for example, it can be in the bone or in the tendon.
The Shaykh : The research in it.
The questioner : It is here, the pain...?
The Shaykh : Look, the pain here, I feel it here.
The questioner : Here?
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : This is in the bone. This usually happens a lot. This pain here happens a lot from the movement of the hand, from writing... they are affected, and this disease becomes... the tendon with the bone, this connection, from the movement, severe pain occurs in it.
The questioner : After this, there are drinks, my sir, fragrant herbs that are beneficial and good. If Allah wills, I will write them for you. The Arabs write them for joint pain, for nerve pain, and for back pain, which is in this topic, in the yellow books that people have forgotten and do not look at, and even if they read them, they do not understand them. If Allah wills, I will write them for you and send them to you.
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