Imago Dei - Longer definition: The term imago Dei refers most fundamentally to two things: first, God’s own self-actualization through humankind; and second, God’s care for humankind. To say that humans are in the image of God is to recognize the special qualities of human nature which allow God to be made manifest in humans. In other words, for humans to have the conscious recognition of their being in the image of God means that they are the creature throught whom God’s plans and purposes can be made known and actualized; humans, in this way, can be seen as co-creators with God. The moral implications of the doctrine of imago Dei are apparent in the fact that if humans are to love God, then humans must love other humans, as each is an expression of God. The human’s likeness to God can also be understood by contrasting it with that which does not image God, i.e., beings who, as far as we know, are without self-consciousness and the capacity for spiritual/ moral reflection and growth. Humans differ from all other creatures because of their rational structure - their capacity for deliberation and free decision-making. This freedom gives the human a centeredness and completeness which allows the possibility for self-actualization and participation in a sacred reality. However, the freedom which makes the human in God’s image is the same freedom which manifests itself in estrangement from God, as the myth of the Fall (Adam and Eve) exemplifies. According to this myth, humans can, in their freedom, choose to deny or repress their spiritual and moral likeness to God. The ability and desire to love one’s self and others, and therefore, God, can become neglected and even opposed. Striving to bring about the imago Dei in one’s life can be seen as the quest for wholeness, or one’s “essential” self, as pointed to in Christ’s life and teachings.

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According to Hakeem Hashmi, the stringent and sour tasted turmeric is a time-tested beauty aid and a nourishing herb which not only gives natural gloss, royal glow and luster and also imparts vigor and youthful vitality to the entire body. Turmeric is thus a great tonic in general, aromatic, diuretic, expectorant, blood-purifier, skin tonic, carminative, pain reliever, germicidal, anti-flatulent, producer and enhancer of red blood corpuscles, anti-phlegm, attic, anti-bilious, protector of eyes, anti-inflammatory and imparts coolness to the system. Turmeric has numerous medicinal virtues. The rhizomes of root are aromatic, stimulant and a tonic. It is useful in relieving flatulence. It corrects the disordered process of nutrition and restored the normal function of the system. It is also useful in curing period attacks of hysteria and convulsions.

Intestinal disorders: - Turmeric is a very effective intestinal antiseptic. The rhizome, its juice and dry powder, mixed in butter milk or plain water, is highly beneficial in intestinal problems, especially chronic Diarrhea, it also helps prevent flatulence.
Worms: - About 20 drops of the juice or raw turmeric, mixed with a pinch of salt, taken first think in the morning daily, is considered an effective cure for expelling worms.
Anaemia: - Turmeric is rich in iron and is valuable in anemia. A teaspoon of raw turmeric juice, mixed with honey, is taken every day in the treatment of this condition.
Measles: - Turmeric roots dried in the sun and grinded to a fine powder. This mixed with a few drops of honey and the juice of few bitter gourd leaves, can be taken by those sufferings from measles.
Asthma: - Turmeric is an effective household remedy for bronchial asthma. A teaspoon of turmeric powder with a glass of milk twice or thrice daily is very effective. It acts best on an empty stomach. Taking 1/4 teaspoon of turmeric powder with 3-4 gulps of warm water acts as a preventive against attack of asthma.
Cough and cold: - Turmeric with its antiseptic properties, is an effective remedy for chronic cough and throat irritation. Half a teaspoon of fresh turmeric powder, mixed in 30 ml of warm milk is very effective in these conditions. To prepare this milk is poured on a hot ladle with turmeric in it and boiled over a slow fire. In case of a running cold, smoke from burning turmeric can be inhaled; this increased the discharge from the nose and brings quick relief.
Sprains: - For treating sprain or the swellings caused by sprains, turmeric paste mixed with lime and salt can be applied with beneficial results.
Boils: - An application of turmeric powder to boils speeds up the healing process. In case of fresh boils, a few dry roots of turmeric are roasted and the ashes dissolved in a cupful of water and applied over the affected portion. These solutions enable the boils to ripen and burst.
Skin disorders: - Turmeric is very effective in the treatment of skin disease like ringworm and scabies. In such cases, the juice of raw turmeric is externally applied to the affected parts. Simultaneously, turmeric juice mixed with honey should be taken orally.
Pain in breasts: - Applying paste of turmeric, rubbed on stone, on the affected part eliminates pain.
Dental problems: -
Rinsing the mouth with turmeric water (boil 5 GMS of turmeric powder, 2 clove and 2 dried leaves of guava in 200 GMS water) give instant relief.
Massaging the aching teeth with roasted ground turmeric eliminates pain and swelling.
Applying the powder of burnt turmeric piece and bishops weed seed on teeth and cleaning them makes the gums and teeth strong.
Poison of insect bite: - Applying the mixture of turmeric powder and lime over the affected part nullifies the toxic effect. Turmeric is an indispensable culinary ingredient. It imparts a musky flavor and yellow colour to curries and foodstuffs. It is also used as colouring matter in pharmacy, confectionery, cosmetic and food industries. Thus, this yellow herbs leads us to a golden healthy life and all the above curative properties of Turmeric is available in the form of Hashmi’s turmeric capsules.
(Hashmi’s focus on natural medicines or home remedies)

The root bark has the same properties as the bark of the trunk. The gum discharged by the stem is a stimulant and tonic with a soothing effect on the skin and mucous membranes.

Headache:-Dropping one or two drops of juice of fresh margosa leaves in the nostrils cures headache.
Baldness:-Applying margosa oil on the bald portion, preferably at night and washing the head in the morning stops the falling of other hair and helps in their growth.
Other hair disorders:- Washing the hair with water boiled with margosa leaves stops falling of hair and helps to grow, be black and lustrous. This is also useful to kill lice in the hair. (Precaution to be taken that this water should not enter the eyes).
Malaria :-An infusion or a decoction of the fresh leaves is a bitter vegetable tonic and alterative, especially in chronic malarial fever because of its action on the liver. It should be taken in doses of 15 to 60 GMS.
Earache:-Taking the steam of boiled water having margosa leaves in it by the ear gives relief in earache.
Dental disorders
Using fresh margosa twig piece as brush for cleaning the teeth makes the gums strong, eliminates foul smell and cures pyorrhoea.
Drinking and gurgling with margosa water (in which fresh new leaves are boiled) stops dental decay and pain in the teeth.
Gargling with margosa decoction (made with boiling of leaves, flowers, fruit, root and branches equal portion) gives relief to toothache by eliminating infection in gums.
Cough :-Gargles with lukewarm margosa juice mixed with a few drops of honey cures cough trouble.
Constipation:-Rinsing the mouth with hot water in which 10 GMS of margosa leaves have been dissolved early in the morning cures constipation.
Vomiting:-
Taking morgosa water (grind 25 GMS neem leaves mix it in 125 GMS water and strain it) cured nausea and vomiting.
Applying paste of margosa flower ground with water on naval portion stops vomiting.
Digestive problems:- Eating 10 fully ripe margosa fruits daily with or after meal helps in curing indigestion.
Diarrhoea:-
Swallowing powdered margosa seed and sugar candy with water controls diarrhoea and loose motions.
Taking ground 10 leaves of margosa and sugar candy with water checks diarrhoea especially in summer.
Dysentery
Taking margosa decoction (prepared by boiling margosa rind in double quantity of water) or 2 GMS ground rind powder with water or honey juice in a day activates the system and controls dysentery.
Taking 10 GMS juice of leaves in the morning also helps in curing it.
Small pox chicken pox:-
Munching boiled margosa leaves or 7 red nascent margosa leaves with 4-5 black peeper works as a preventive against smallpox or chickenpox.
On being afflicted, margosa twigs should be hanged on all room’s entry and exit. Spread leaves of margosa on the bed of the patient and change it twice in day give water with little juice of fresh leaves to the patient. The patient may be funned with margosa twigs with leave.
After getting cured, taking bath margosa leaves water and applying margosa oil on the spots helps in quick.
Post parturition disorders in women :- Margosa is very useful at the time of childbirth. Administration of the juice of margosa leaves to the woman in labour before childbirth produces normal contraction in the uterus and prevents and checks onset of fevers, there by facilitating the normal delivery. The use of a tepid decoction of margosa leaves as a vaginal douche heals any wounds caused during delivery and disinfects the vaginal passage.
Menstrual disorders:-
Taking juice of 10 fresh margosa leaves and ginger juice in the same proportion with 10 gms water eliminates and cures excessive pain during menses.
Taking paste of margosa leaves (leaves to be boiled and ground) below the naval will check pain during menses.
Unani problem:-Taking about 20-30 gms of juice of margosa root regularly cures urinary obstruction and burning.
Jaundice:-Taking 10 gms ground margosa leaves, 4-5 black pepper helps in eliminating poison.
Asthma:-Taking 25-30 drops of margosa oil extracted from seeds in betel leaf gives great relief is asthma.
Poison & insect bite:-Chewing fresh margosa leaves with or without little salt and pepper helps in eliminating poison.
Worms:-Giving 3-4 drops of margosa oil to children and 5 to 6 drops to adults helps in killing the worms in intestines. Taking 2 teaspoon fresh margosa leaves juice with 1 teaspoon honey kill the worms. Morgosa is a powerful insecticide to kill soil nematodes and other plant parasites thus it helps in agriculture also, And also useful as a mosquito repellent.
Thus according to Hakeem Hashmi, the well respected unani practitioner, margosa tree, due to its countless uses and endless medicinal values in elimination of innumerable diseases is considered a treasure house of various medicines and can be used an enjoyed by one and all.To enjoy the benefit margosa Hashmi has come up with neem capsules, in which all the effective virtues of margosa are intact

Ginger is pungent and a bit bitter in taste. It acts as digestive, carminative, stomach, anti pyreutic, generates heat expels flatus and cough, purifies blood and is invigorating. According to Hakeem Hashmi, well-respected unani practitioner, the composition of ginger varies with the type or variety, Region, Agro climatic conditions, methods of curing, drying, packaging and stomach. Ginger is widely used in local medicines in India and the Far East. Taken internally it is a stimulating carminative and externally, it is used as a rubefacient that is counter irritant for relief of muscular pain like many other spice, ginger is believed to have aphrodisiac properties.

DIGESTIVE DISORDERS:
In the treatment of dyspepsia, flatulence, colic vomiting spasms and other painful affections of stomach and the bowls not accompanied by fever ginger is extremely beneficial. Chewing a piece of fresh ginger regularly after meals prevents these ailments.
Half a teaspoon of fresh ginger juice, mixed with one teaspoon each of fresh lime and mint juices and a tablespoon of honey, constitutes an effective medicine for dyspepsia, nausea and vomiting due to bilcousness indigestion cause by intake of heavy non-vegetarian and fried fatty food morning sickness, jaundice and piles. This mixture should be taken thrice daily in the treatment of these conditions.
COUGH & COLD:

Itsp mixture of juice ginger, garlic, honey (in equal QTY) taken 2-3 time a day Relieves bronchial congestion cures cough and gives relief in Asthma.
Heated ginger juice with honey (itsp each) 3times a day for few days cures cold & Cough and gives relief in Asthma.
10 GMS of ginger pieces boiled in water taken with sugar and milk like tea 2-3 Times a day cures cold & coughs.
EARACHE:
One drop of ginger oil (ginger juice boiled in mustered oil) put in ear relieves earache.

RESPIRATORY DISORDERS:
One teaspoon of ginger juice mixed with a cup of fenugreek decoction and honey to taste makes an excellent diaphoretic mixture to proliferate sweating and reduces fever in influenza. It acts as an expectorant in bronchitis, Asthma, whooping cough and tuberculosis of the lungs

Nowadays more and more people are curing their illness with the herbal treatments and natural preventatives that have been effectively used for thousands of years. Hakeem Hashmi, a well-respected unani physician while narrating the effective medicinal qualities of herbs and plants, specify garlic as the favourite root of unani medicine. Hakeem Hashmi pointed out that Hippocrates, the father of unani medicine, used garlic in infectious diseases and particularly prescribed it for intestinal disorders. Even before, Khnoon Khoufouf, the builder of one of the oldest pyramids, (4500 B.C ) was among the first to recognise the values of garlic, for he ordered that all his workers should take garlic everyday to maintain their health and strength.

Even, garlic extracts and juices have been used successfully against cancer in booth animals and human studies. By quoting the PTI report, times of India 1987, Hakeem Hashmi pointed out that doctors in American research institute in Panama City had successfully carried out lab test in cancer by administering garlic. Garlic is known to the Chines as far back as 3000 B.C, and is believed to have originated in central Asia. It continues to be one of the staple spices of the Chinese and oriental cuisine till today. Indians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans also used garlic both as a staple food and medicine for ailments. Bow garlic is used in all parts of the world and is widely grown in the Mediterranean region, India, Philippines, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Brazil and Mexico.

GARLIC’S HEALING POWER:-
Traditionally, garlic has been used in herbal medicine for asthma, deafness, leprosy, bronchial, congestion, hardening of arteries, fevers, worms and liver and gall bladder trouble. Garlic is useful in Leucoderma, leprosy, piles, worms, catarrhal disorders and cough. Garlic is good for the heart, a food for the hair, an appetite stimulant, a strength-giving tonic. Several ancient beliefs about the healing virtues of garlic have been confirmed by clinical experiments in recent times. These tests and experiments have in fact proven much greater power of garlic than known previously. Garlic unpleasant odour is due to its sulpher content. This mineral is contained to a greater degree in its volatile oil, which has remarkable medicinal virtues.
Juice of garlic has a most beneficial effect on the entire system the ethers in garlic juice are so potent and penetrating, that they help dissolve accumulation of mucus in the sinus cavities, bronchial tubes and the lunges. They help in the expulsion of poisons from body through pores of the skin.
ASTHMA :

Garlic juice taken with hot water twice a day
Three cloves of garlic boiled with milk taken every day at night
10 drops of garlic juice with 2 teaspoon of honey cures asthma. It can be administered at the time of attack also.
HEART PROBLEMS:

As diluting agent for blood regular eating of garlic and also having milk with garlic boiled in it controls assimilation of cholesterol.
Chewing 4 or 5 cloves of garlic given at the time of heart attack prevents heart failure, till medical aid is procured.
WHOPPING COUGH :

8 to 10 of garlic juice mixed with 4 GMS of honey four times a day cures whopping cough.
Making the children wear a garland of garlic glove, helps in curing whooping cough
Regular in take of 3-5 gloves of garlic cures all kinds of cold & cough.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: . Taking 6 drops of garlic juice with fresh water regularly reduces high blood pressure (hypertension).
BRONCHITIS: - Paste of garlic with onion applied on the chest as poultice cures bronchitis.

TUBERCULOSIS: - Pulmonary infection including T.B is controlled by garlic in take. Because its rich contends of sulphuric acid destroys T.B germs. Chewing 10 cloves of garlic in 250 GMS milk and then having that milk helps in curing T .B.
PARALYSIS: -

25 GMS ground garlic boiled in milk till it becomes thick to be taken when cooled in the morning for at least a month.
Eating 7 to8 cloves of garlic with one teaspoon of fresh butter also helps in curing paralysis
BLOOD DISORDERS: -
The herbs are regarded as a rejuvenator. It has been found to help remove toxins, revitalise the blood, stimulate circulation and promote intestinal flora, or colony of bacteria that prevent infection by harmful bacteria. Garlic is used in many medicines that cures impotency night-discharge, arthritis, malaria, jaundice, gastric ulcer, Diarrhea, polio, diarrhea and baldness. Even the bites of venomous reptiles, dogs & other noxious strung, can be cured by applying the paste of garlic. Because it counter acts their poison garlic has a pronounced aphrodisiac effect. It is a tonic for the loss of sexual power from any cause. It also treats sexual debility and impotency caused by over indulgence in sex and nervous exhaustion from dissipating habit. It is said to be especially useful to old men with nervous tension and failing libido.

Garlic is the most widely used of the cultivated alluviums after onions. It is used both as a food and seasoning, in the preparations of soups, sauces and pickles. In Spain and Italy, and some parts of china and India it is used with almost every food. Garlic is such a herb, it’s virtues are endless and it can not be captured only in a number of pages.
For the benefit of mankind, Hakeem Hashmi has prepared effective garlic capsules all the above virtues can be obtained in the form of small capsules. And regular intake according to the prescription, is an effective cure for many ailments.

ABOUT GARLIC

Curative properties: -
Castor is a harmless purgative it is also used very effectively in the treatment of rheumatic & skin disorders.

Rheumatism: -
Castor seeds poultice can be applied on gouty & rheumatic swellings with beneficial results. A decoction of the roots of castor plant with potash carbonate is very helpful in treating lumbago & rheumatism.

Skin disorders: -
a poultice of castor leaves is useful as an external application to boils & swellings. Castor leaves coated with coconut oil, then heated & applied over guinea-worm sores to extract the worms.

Dandruff: -
castor oil if used regularly as hair oil, helps to cure dandruff & helps the growth of hair.

Constipation: -
administration of castor oil as a purgative is very simple. About 30 to 60 gms of pure odourless castor oil is given orally with 250 to 350 gms of Luke worm milk. It acts just after an hour. Those who find it unpalatable can take it with ginger or gripe water. This reduces its unpleasantness, while destroying mucous & promoting healthy appetite. According to Hakeem Hashmi castor oil is a simple, harmless purgative and can be safely used round the year without any rigid consideration & limitation of weather & the physiological nature of the patient.

Breast milk secretion: -
castor oil massaged over the breasts of lactating mothers (after childbirth), increasing the flow of milk, by stimulating mammary glands. Castor leaves can also be used to foment the breast, for the same patient.

Natural birth control: -
Hakeem Hashmi points out that, unani system of medicine considers castor as an effective medium of birth control. According to unani treatises, if a woman chews one castor seed daily for a period of seven days after the menstruation, she becomes sterile. This has been interpreted by that castor seed is an herb for birth control and if the woman swallows one-castor seeds after the menstrual cycle, she will not conceive during that month. When pregnancy is desired, the practical can be given up and conception follows after a year.

Other uses: -
castor oil massaged over the body, before bath, keeps the skin healthy & imparts sound sleep. Such oil over may be taken once in a week. Applying castor oil over hand & feet before going to sleep keeps them soft. Applying similarly over eyebrows & eye lashes keep them well groomed. A word of caution, large doses of castor oil as purgative during early months of pregnancy may caused abortion.

HIGH BLOOD-PRESSURE: -
Juice extracted from seeds which contains cucurbocitrin helps in dialating the blood vessels activates the kidneys, brings down high blood-pressure and reduces oedema of the ankles juice is extracted by drying the seeds in shade powdered two spoonful of powder is put in 1 cup of boiling water for one hour strained taken 4 times relieves high blood-pressure.

JAUNDICE: -
Watermelon helps in curing enlarged liver and Jaundice while the patient may be treated by any branch of medicine he or she must be asked to regularly take watermelon juice / sherbet, given earlier after mixing it in the juice of sugar lane every morning and after noon till the yellow colour of the body is removed.

HEART DISEASE: -
Sherbat made with watermelon seeds mixed with rose petal black pepper poppy seeds and almonds in watermelon or milk very nourishing and imparts strength to heart and brain.

KIDNEY PROBLEMS: -
One cup of watermelon juice kept overnight in the open & taken with sugar candy in the morning helps in cleansing the kidneys.

HEAT STROKE: -
300 to 500 grams of watermelon taken with breakfast prevent & cure heat strokes.

STOMACH & DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS: -
Watermelon taken with little salt and pepper helps in removing constipation & other problems of indigestion.

HEADACHE: -
One class of watermelon juice mixed with sugar candy taken before breakfast cures chronic headaches.

NAUSEA: -
One cup of watermelon juice mixed with sugar candy checks nausea and control bile. A part these, watermelon is found to be a very curative for mental disorder, phobia, hysteria, sore lips, cough, short of breath, blood in spittle, vomiting, gonorrhoea, stone in kidney or bladder, anaemia, T.B, blood impurity impotency ulcers and Leucoderma. So improve your health eating more and more watermelon.

CURATIVE PROPERTIES OF COCONUT: -
AS A GENERAL TONIC: -
Consuming coconut water of raw coconut everyday eliminates fatigue & gives vigor & strength to the body.
Taking dried coconut pieces with milk is very good aphrodis for it helps in regaining lost energy.
Eating coconut in raw form also gives vigor & strength.
1. INSOMNIA: -
Taking the water of tender coconut before going to bed Induces sleep.

2. STOMACH WORMS: -
Eating the pulps of tender coconut and drinking the water along with one tsp of olive oil for 3 days destroys & eliminates stomach worms.

3. STOMACHACHE: -
- Stomachache due to acidity can be cured by taking Green coconut water after food.

4. LIVER PROBLEMS: -
Regular intake of tender coconut water cures liver Problems.

5. URINARY PROBLEMS: -
Taking regularly, tender coconut water cures Urinary problems such as strangury, polyuria etc.

6. LIQUOR HANGS OVER: -
Consuming tender coconut water eliminates Hang over due to liquor.

ITCHING & ABRASIONS OF SKINS: -
Massage with coconut oil mixed with lemon juice eliminates itching.
Applying coconut oil with a little camphor also gives quick relief in Itching.
Tomato juice mixed with coconut oil is also cures itching.
Cold water abrasions of the skin can be cured by coconut oil on the face, legs & feet.
STONES: -
Drinking tender coconut water regularly helps in breaking the stones and pushing them out.

EYE PROBLEMS: -
Taking coconut kernel with jaggery daily for a week eliminates common eye problems.

RODENT POISON: -
Applying old coconut oil with radish juice on the affected part eliminates poison.

FIRE BURNS: -
Rubbing coconut oil with basil juice on the burns gives relief. Burn marks will also disappear by applying coconut oil regularly.

DANDRUFF & HAIR PROBLEMS: -
Massaging the scalp regularly with coconut oil mixed with little camphor removes dandruff.
Applying coconut oil on hair helps in checking graying & falling of hair & imparts luster to
PREGNANCY & POSTNATAL CURE: -
Eating coconut kernel with sugar candy during pregnancy helps in child’s growth & easy Delivery
Taking coconut oil with jaggery after delivery for 2-3 days gives quick relief in Pain.
VOMITING: -
Taking 2 GMS of burnt ashes of coconut shell bristles with water stops nausea & vomiting.
Drinking tender coconut water 3 to 4 times also controls vomiting. During typhoid, malaria & other fevers, taking tender coconut water is beneficial.
A WORD OF CAUTION, ACCORDING TO HAKEEM HASHMI: -
Persons suffering from cough & asthma should not take coconut.
Excessive intake of dried coconut pieces causes constipation & flatulence.