By Karima Burns, MH, ND
14/03/2002
“And He it is Who made the night a covering for you, and the sleep a rest, and He made the day to rise up again” (Qur’an 25:47).
Certainly sleep is one of the blessings from Allah. At the end of a busy day a person looks forward to sleeping and regaining [...]

Dr. M. Laiq Ali Khan
Zaitoon (Olive) the sign of peace and friendship in this world has its description in Holy Qur’an Allah Taala says
By the fig and olive
And the mount of Sinai
And the city of security
We have indeed created man in the best of moulds
Then do we abase him (to be) the lowest of low
Except [...]

By Leila Ali
28/06/2001
Anorexia, which means “without appetite,” is an emotional illness in which a person refuses to eat. Ninety percent of anorexia cases are women and young girls (Balch, p.321). Although an anorexic female is hungry most of the time, she avoids food for psychological reasons. The exact cause of anorexia is not known, [...]

Causes and Perceptions of Schizophrenia
By Karima Burns, MH, ND
Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects approximately 1% of the population. One or more of a number of varying factors, including genetic malformations or nutritional imbalances can cause it, and it is an often-misunderstood disease. Thought to be a disturbance in the brain’s chemistry, schizophrenia is [...]

By Karima Burns, MH, ND
Sigmund Freud said, “Psychoanalysis is not suitable for such diseases as schizophrenia and successful treatment will be found to be biochemical.” Some scientists and physicians, however, seem to have misunderstood the word “biochemical.” In the 1950’s, painful and typically ineffective insulin injections, barbiturates, morphine, and electro-convulsive therapy were used for schizophrenic [...]