نشریه قرآن و طب
پیاپی 2 (تابستان 1390)

Honey is a valuable foodstuff full of carbohydrates, enzymes, amino acids, organic acids, minerals, aromatic combinations, pigments, wax and pollens. Honey is an important food referred to in Quran. In a way that in Nahl Sura, verse 69, we will read: And healing for men is in it This study is conducted to understand the effect of honey in treating the diseases mentioned in Quran and accessing a food which is totally harmless especially to the elderly. 5 beehives located in a place called “Sirachal” in 40th km of Tehran-Chalus road. After collecting honey, the amount of glucose, fructose and sucrose calculated with the method of iodometry by Sawyer method in the laboratory of calculation and computation of pollens. The results showed that the proportion of fructose to glucose is 97% in honey. Therefore, honey is high in fructose which is almost equal to the amount of glucose. 89% of herbs whose pollens were present in honey had been medicinal herbs. To be absorbed in any non-hepatic cells, fructose needs to turn into glucose. Therefore, the process of decomposition and finally absorption takes longer and the energetic demand of body is supplied in a longer period. There would be no extra glucose aggregation in blood and body will have enough time to constantly absorb it. Consuming honey is too much better for the elderly than sugar. There is a hadith commanded by the prophet Mohammad in which he advise people of eating honey and calls it the sweetest food. After 1400 years, researches demonstrated that fructose that is an important part of honey’s sugar is sweeter than glucose. What the prophet has said as a sign of his eternal knowledge includes advice to eat healthy food. Most of herbs the pollens of which were found in honey were medical and this reminds us of the verse 68 of Nahl sura: “and your lord inspired the honeybees”. Surely, nothing can dispatch honeybees toward valuable and medical herbs but the inspiration and revelation.

Given that hemophilia is a common health problem which imposes a lot of costs on health organizations, it is highly important to detect its carriers. However, expensive diagnostic techniques have hindered the detection of hemophilia carriers even in developed countries. Since it has been proved that each person has his/her own unique fingerprints and this has also been mentioned in the Holy Koran, the present study has been conducted to compare the fingerprints of hemophilia carriers with those of normal population.

The main aim of this study is to ponder on the 3rd & 4th verses of Al-Qiyamat surah comparing the fingerprints of hemophilia carriers with those of normal population.

This case-control study was carried out in 2011. 45 mothers of hemophilia patients who were referred to hemophilia center in Arak City were chosen as carriers in the case group and 113 healthy women were randomly selected as the control group. advanced, the fingerprints of the subjects were determined by a forensic medicine expert who was blind to the group which the subjects belonged to. The main types of fingerprints including arch, loop, whorl and other type were identified.

The most common fingerprints in all the fingers of the subjects were annular, rotary, semi-lunar and the others. Like the control group, the most common fingerprint found in the carriers of hemophilia was annular. Yet, a significant difference was noticed between the fingerprints of hemophilia carriers and those of the control group so that the average number of annular fingerprints in the ten fingers of hemophilia carriers was significantly fewer than the control group, and the average number of semi-lunar and other kinds of fingerprints in the ten fingers of hemophilia carriers was more than the control group. The average number of rotary fingerprints in all ten fingers was not significantly different between the two groups. Also, except for the thumb and the forefinger of the right hand, the fingerprints of other fingers were significantly different in hemophilia carriers and the control group.

The results of the present study revealed that the fingerprints of hemophilia carriers are different from those of normal population. Since it has been proved that each individual’s fingerprints are different from another, we can point out the miraculous statement of the Holy Koran about the recreation of finger-tips in response to someone who had denied afterlife 1400 years ago

Although labor pain has benefits like advancing labor process it can cause serious problems such as protracted delivery, unnatural fetal heart rate pattern, high-risk cesarean and low Apgar score. So alleviating labor pain by playing the sound of Quran can be an important subject in medicine. Labor pain is one of the severe pains that most mothers face in their lifetime. Nowadays different methods are used to alleviate this pain. The present study was carried out with the aim of evaluating the auditory effect of the sound of Quran e Karim on the labor pain of primiparas. In this clinical trial 90 primiparas referring to the delivery ward of Shiraz’s Zeinabieh Hospital were placed in 3 groups randomly. The first and second group listened to Quran and Tavashih for 20 minutes but the third group did not listen to the sounds. Labor pain intensity, blood pressure and fetal heart rate before and after the intervention were recorded using McGill-Melzack scale and observation reports. The difference between the three groups was not significant in regards with age, education and cervical dilation rate (P > 0.05). Labor pain intensity in the first group was not significantly different before and after the intervention (P >0.05) but it increased in Tavashih and the control group (P < 0.001). Mean average pain intensity in the three groups differed significantly (P < 0.001). This variable decreased significantly in Quran group compared to the other two groups (P < 0.001). Mean fetal blood pressure and heart rate did not differ significantly in the three group (P > 0.05). The findings of the study at hand indicate the auditory effect of the pleasant sound of Quran e Karim as one of the supplementary methods in alleviating the labor pain of primiparas. Therefore considering faith issues and utilizing spiritual factors in order to alleviate or help tolerate labor pain is recommended.

Given that Iran’s population is young and all these young people have to fulfill their military service in military centers, it is worthwhile (decent) to study the quality of life of this stratum of society. The main objective of this study is to examine socio - economic factors associated with quality of life of soldiers with emphasis on Quranic teachings. Data were collected from the structured questionnaire designed for 209 soldiers, who were selected by systematic random sampling. Statistical methods of Cronbach’s alpha for assessment (tools) reliability, Pearson correlation coefficient for testing hypotheses, analysis of variance to test statistical comparison and regression were used in this study. According to research findings there is a significant relationship between the variables including: age (r = -0.241), time spent in military service (r = 0.21), housing status (t = 22.90), social class identity (f = 14.95), religious orientation (r = 0.41), social capital (r = 0.12), self-esteem (r = 0.34) and the quality of life of soldiers. Based on research findings it can be concluded that the variable of quality of life is affected by other variables including: religious orientation, time spent in military service, self-esteem, age, education and housing status. And any changes in each of these variables will change the quality of life of soldiers.

Emphasis on planning for having proper food consumption in order to have healthy nourishment in days of Ramadan month has greatly drawn attention. It is essential to be aware of the usual behavior of people before planning an educational program. Therefore, this research has been done in order to examine nourishment status of employees of one of the military universities of Tehran. This research is a descriptive sectional research. Sampling from among the employees of one of the military universities of Tehran has been done randomly. The groups under research were groups who did not have limitations in fulfilling their duty to fast, and at the last day of Ramadan month the sampling was done randomly. SPSS program has been used in order to investigate and analyze the data. 117 persons were studied in this research. The results of the research shows that there is a meaningful relation between person’s weight and how much he consumes food (P = 0.001). Among food materials, for the persons under research there is a meaningful relation between meat consumption and weight (P = 0.005). In most of the persons (41.2 percent) consumption of sugary materials was between 40 to 100 grams. This shows that meat consumption in 44.4 percent of those persons is between 200-300 grams. Liquid consumption in 40/9 percent of the persons has been reported to be between 6-8 glasses a day. Also consumption of bread is between 100-200 grams in 46/5 percent of the cases. 44.4 percent of the persons under research used less than one glass of milk in one day. Most of the people under research (34.1 percent) consumed between 2 to 3 units of fruit a day. Regarding the achieved results of this study it seems like precise policy making is essential in order to offer theory-based educational programs and controlling and evaluating them in order to improve manners of eating in Ramadan month.

Sleeping is an unintentional habit of creatures that involve all organisms, including plants, animals and human being. On the other hand, sleeping and dreaming are closely interrelated. It should be considered that, sleeping and dreaming resemble shadows that chasing objects. Sleeping is so important that a division of relationship between human and the God takes place during a dream, the same as what has been inspire to some of the holy prophets in their dream. Although one third of human life is spent in sleep, mysteries of sleeping are not completely cleared yet. People, who did not naturally sleep, are faded and angry persons. On the contrary, those people who enjoy a reasonable amount of sleep are joyful persons and they feel vitality and excessive power within themselves when they are awake. Sleep is a sign of gods’ power and it is related to the spirit of human, while the spirit is a world full of secrets itself. Islam expresses wonderful and fascinating notification and instructions about subject of sleeping and dreaming. This study will examine the sleeping issue based on existing books and documentation by pedagogic study method and specially concentrates on review of Quran verses and their comparison upon the above mentioned subject. sleeping and dreaming in humans are instinctive. For explaining the importance of sleeping, it would be satisfactory to say “if the sleeping can be prevented in a person, it will cause death”. Sleeping has an important role in human health. Regulation of sleep or its disorders, will directly affects health or disease of people. During sleeping, the lost body forces are recovered. The remained Toxic and waste substances that are produced during the metabolism, i.e. cellular feed system, are worn out from the body’s cells. Then the body cells save recovered energy and ability for our waking time. time of sleeping and resting, amount of sleeping, states of before sleeping, quality of sleeping and states after sleeping have important role in human health. Sleeping issue is a subject that draws special attention in Islamic medicine and traditional medicine under title “Setta Zarouriah”. Here in this study some portion of complex aspect of sleeping is examined.

Backgraund: Patients hospitalized in burn wards suffer severe anxiety before going into a dressing room and in spite of opioid administration experience pain and anguish when dressing is changed and during the hospitalization period. As soon as these patients hear the word “dressing room” they show signs of distress. Referring to the verse “Only by reciting the name of God the hearts will find peace” and the fact that the word “reciting” has been repeated for 260 times in Quran we decided to examine the effect of Hazrate Zahra Praises (including 100 recitations of the word “Allah”) on the anxiety before and during dressing change so that in case it is effective opioid administration and the resulting unfavorable side effects are controlled. The study at hand was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of reciting the word “Allah” on the pain and agony of dressing change in burn patients. The present study is a quasi-experimental research. The cases under study are 30 burn patients hospitalized in the burn ward of Hazrate Ayatollah Moosavi Treatment and Training Center. Sampling method was objective-based. Data was collected through questionnaires including three parts. The first part dealt with demographic characteristics, second part with pain intensity assessment using Beyer’s index and the third part with Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) and anxiety assessment. Data was analyzed using SPSS 16, Paird t-test and chi2 test. The results indicated that 57% of the cases under study were men. Their mean age was 33. 5 and 68% of the patients suffered second and third degree burns. Mean pain intensity of dressing change without “reciting” was 85. 7 and mean pain intensity of dressing change “reciting” the word was 21. 5. Paired t-test showed that the difference was statistically significant (P=0.002). Mean anxiety level before “reciting” was 12. 14 which decreased to 9. 15 after “reciting”. Paired t-test indicated that this difference was statistically significant too (P=0.001). The findings of the study at hand are indicative of the successful effect of reciting in alleviating pain and reducing anxiety. Ayatollah Makarem e Shirazi notes in the first volume of Tafsire Noomune that “reciting the name of Allah causes the individual to feel more mental ability or strength and the individual will not fear the immensity of problems”. Also many psychologists and psychiatrists have found that praying, reciting and complete attention to God (with all senses and wholeheartedly) distracts the individual from life challenges and mind concerns thus eliminating the sense of fear, worry and perturbation and creating a sense of inner peace.