Thoughts of Ibrahim Hakim al-Shaghouri

this is the order of importance of things you’re body needs to remain alive and healthy:

1) air/oxygen

2) water

3) salt

if you really understand that, you can pretty much avoid succuming to probably 70% of the things people are sick with these days. oh, and add to that list, DETOX.

anyway, on to my post.

Dr. Batmanghelidj (call him “Batman” for short lol) was originally from Iran (Allah have mercy on him), and obtained his M. D. from London. his story is really fascinating and reveals so many things about the body people are ignorant about today.

during the iranian revolution in the ’70s, they decided to put alot of the scientists/doctors/ etc in the prisons in Iran, and Dr. Batman was one of them. unfortunately, he wasnt allowed to take his basic medical equipment with him, but they allowed him to be the “jailhouse doctor” nonetheless.

anyway, because he didnt have access to his supplies, he said to himself half-heartedly the only thing i really have to help these people is water. one time while in prison, he heard a grown man crying out in what seemed unbearable pain. the guards had givenhim some antacid pills and something like pepto-bismol here in the states, but that didnt help, cuz he heard him scream with more intensity later. when they let Dr Batman examine him, he saw that he had so much stomach ulcer pain he couldnt sit or stand up straight, and the pain made him sorta half conscious. he had taken a whole bunch of antacid pills and alot of pepto too.

he decided to give the poor guy two big glasses of water, and after 30 min when he came back to him, he saw that he was better to his surprise? “plain water did this?” he gave him a third big drink of water, and after a couple of hours, he was back to normal. he was so shocked that he decided to test this “water cure” with other inmates. as the time went by, he ended up – according to his count – successfully treating around 3000 inmates/patients with water alone. in fact, when his prison sentence was over and they said he was free to go, **he voluntarily elected to stay in the prison to continue his tests with wate** (how’s that for sincerely seeking the truth?), since the prison was “an ideal testing ground for severe stress situations,” as he put it.

lemme say that again: he actually wanted to stay in prison some more months, just to see how this water cure worked…. think about that for a moment, are there doctors and scientists like that today, who are that willing to find out the truth?

when he finally came out with enough data, he became literally disgusted with himself and with the training he received as an MD, and could not believe that something so simple and logical was never taught to him in school.

as an aside, doctors (allopathic doctors, those who deal with pills and knives) are NOT what they used to be. the honor in that profession is gone for the most part. first of all, they aren’t taught to critically think and analyze anymore, but mainly to memorize pre-digested material. the way their schooling is geared is to give them incredible amounts of information in a short period of a few weeks, then test them, then move on to a completely new set of facts, only to lose what they gained before, and this all to pass tests and more tests. furthermore, a big part of ethics is lost from their profession, since even if they do want to genuinely help a patient actually get a cure (instead of just “treating them” to keep them well enough to buy medicines but still sick enough to come back again and see them, like mechanics do with cars), the HMO’s and insurance companies regulate what kind of treatments the patient gets, NOT based on what is good for them, but what earns/saves the most money.

a physicians son was himself finally becoming a physician and graduating, and got to work with his first patient, an old lady who used to see his father. her case was so simple, he had her treated successfully and she didnt need to come back anymore. when he told his father this, his father angrily responded, “you fool! that lady put you thru college” (from all the money she gave him year after year).

furthermore, what are u gonna learn about a patient by sitting with them only 10-15 minutes (after they’ve waited 150 minutes), and then only to ask them “so what do u think is wrong with you?” then going back to your office to match their comments you wrote down to some thing a book on your shelf said, and write a prescription for the medicine it recommended. this, along with incredibly expensive tests which still tell the docs little, and leave them confused and differing with eachother.

i know a hakim (traditional/natural doctor) in Afghanistan, who is able to diagnose most illnesses simply by looking at you and taking different pulses. in the west, they teach you only about one pulse, but in this system, this hakim is trained to identify 30-some odd different pulses. where do u get that kind of education here?

how is it that with such advanced medicine in this country, we still have the worst and highest cases of chronic illnesses, some of them unheard of in “those backward” countries?

it is truly a “sick-care” system, and not anymore a “health-care” system, because they keep you sick and care for you by maintaining you in that sick state.

the WORST manifestation by far of this phenomena is in the mental health-care industry. ill save my critique of that in another post.

back to Dr. Batman. he move to America and developed his studies and ideas, and began writing the different medical and health organizations to publicize his findings (such as the FDA, NIH, CDC, AMA, etc). they ignored him. after his persistence, they not only ignored him but saw to it that his ideas were suppressed and were not given the fair light of day. he gave up after seeing their hypocrisy and decided to establish his own organization called “Foundation for the Simple in Medicine” based in northern virginia, from which he published his books (i have four of them).

basically, he called for a paradigm shift in the medical field, since they taught some fundamental errors in understanding the body and how it works. the title of his first book summarizes it:

“YOU ARE NOT SICK, YOU ARE THIRSTY: dont treat your thirst with medications”

in other words, many of the chronic “sicknesses/diseases” are actually signs of advanced chronic dehydration. usually what we’re taught is that “dry mouth” is the only symptom of the body’s thirst. this blunder has been the cause of great suffering for many people, who were given dangerous medicines (the 4th leading cause of death in the states is pharmaceutical agents) when instead they should have been treated with water (and other things).

dry mouth is actually a dangerous sign that you are seriously dehydrated, and that you have neglected your body’s more subtle thirst signals (they were only subtle cuz we were too ignorant to know about them).

the other big mistake is fluids = water. in other words, you can re-hydrate your body by drinking juices, soft drinks, coffee, alcohol, etc. i mean, they already have water in them right?

is your body made of 70% pepsi?

did you know that the simple act of breathing causes body water loss? daily activities use water… you sweat, you urinate, you breath, you digest food, all of that uses water, which your body loses. and what do you do, replace it with pepsi or coffee? (which further dehydrates you?)

what happens when you’re dehydrated? why is it so dangerous?

first, when you dont have your optimum water supply in your body, your brain kicks in some hormones (mainly histamine – sound familiar) to ration your water supply to certain important organs (to the detriment of others). what do you get when you have histamine floating around your body, trying to determine which organ gets how much water? you get colds and flus. which should be classified therefore as a thirst signal, not a literal sickness. but what do the docs say? “here take an anti-histamine!” you’re blocking the action of an important hormone which is doing an important job, and your organs suffer further (who cares, good thing my nose is cleared!)

what else? when you dont have enough water, your blood becomes too thick, and as it passes along your body and “rubs against” the cells, osmosis happens and some of the water in your cells moves out of your cells into your blood. water outside of your cells means they cant function optimully and efficiently. if this is the case chronically, and you ignore your body and keep it dehydrated, your cells begin to freak out and die.

Allah did not create you stupidly. He knows what He is doing by sending that histamine in your body, since He is trying to save what water the body has.

a further complication is high blood pressure. this is mainly your body adapting to its crisis state of dehydration, (thru the renin-angiotensin hormone system) by keeping water in your body (thru working on the kidneys). also, your heart pumps with more pressure to get some of that water pushed back into the cells. but mainly, it is trying to keep water in your body, which is now a scarce commodity. this is where the salts in your body help.

but what do the doctors say? “here, take this diuretic to lower your blood pressure, and stay away from salt” no fool, the problem isnt your blood being too thick because of too much salt, but because of too little water. you need salt, salt is essential for the functioning of EVERY SINGLE CELL in your body. (in fact, the Romans used to punish their prisoners at a certain time by depriving them of salt!). your body is holding on to that salt because salt keeps water in the body. that’s what you learn in basic physiology “water goes where the salt goes”.

ok this post got long enough. if you want more info (ill be posting more details later), check out Dr Batmanghelidj’s valuable books, and/or go to www.watercure.com (also .org).

and drink your water!