Health and Islam: The health benefits of ablution

Ablution is obligatory befor the five daily prayers in addition to other obligatory prayers except the funeral prayer.  It is obligatory to wash the face and the two arms, and pass the hand over, for shias, the head and the feet.

Similarly, it is recommendable, in the ritual ablution, to wash the hands and rinse the mouth and the nose in addition to the other actions.

The specialist physicians mention important advantages for the ablution as follows:

Water that is shed on the face and the hands helps in activating the dermal capillaries.  This increases thehart vivacity, activates the body respoiratory processes, and helps in inhalation and exhalation.  Consequently, the perceptive motivated nerves are stimulated.  Then, the stimulation moves to the whole cardiac, gastric and pulmonic nerves, as well as all of the organs and glands.

Eyes are protected against opthalmia because they are washed with water several times a day.

The nasal channels ar cleaned from the germs gathering there by rinsing the mose.

The skin is protected against dermatoses.  The face and the hands are uncovered organs that are vulnerable to the affection of microbes.  Immunity will certainly be obtained if those organs are washed several times a day.

The oral cavity is protected against the germs that penetrate because of the pollution of hands.  If the hands are always clean, they will not carry any microbe.

Diseases that affect the human body through polluted hands are the digestive parasites, typhoid, and paralysis.  At any rate, the ablution is the most notable means of protecting the human bodies against such serious diseases.

The ablution alleviate tense nerves and angerm as physicians confirm.  Theprophet (saw) said:

"Rage is from Satan.  Satan is created from fire.  Water extinguishes fire,  You should perform the ablution whenever you are enraged,"

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