MALAY MEDICINAL PRACTICES AND PROPHETIC FOODS FOR TREATING THE FOUR TYPES OF ILLNESSES MOST COMMONLY FOUND IN THE BOTTOM BILLION POPULATION: A PRELIMINARY REVIEW IN THE USAGE OF NIGELLA SATIVA (BLACK SEED) IN MALAY MANUSCRIPTS FOUND IN MALAYSIA

Perubatan Melayu dan Penggunaan Pemakanan Sunnah dalam Merawat Empat Penyakit Utama dalam Kalangan Golongan Termiskin Dunia: Tinjauan Awal dalam Penggunaan Nigella Sativa (Jintan Hitam) Berdasarkan Manuskrip Perubatan Melayu di Malaysia

Authors

  • Mohd Azmi Mohd Razif Islamic Science Institute, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
  • Muhammad Widus Sempo aculty of Quranic and Sunnah Studies/Green Science Technology (GST), Islamic Science Institute, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33102/abqari.vol17no1.85

Keywords:

habbatussauda, Nigella sativa, Sunnah, Malay, Medical, Manuscript, black seed, jintan hitam

Abstract

This paper serves to outline Malay medicinal prescriptions in treating the four common illnesses of the bottom billion namely gastroenteritis, worm infection, Anaemia, and fatigue. Its main scope will project preliminary findings from 20 unpublished Malay medicinal manuscripts focusing on the black seed as the primary ingredient in health preservation. The black seed in the Islamic tradition made a significant turning point in the field of medicine as the Prophet Muhammad recommended the usage of black seed as being compatible for all cure except for death. A search strategy was developed to scan established catalogues of Malay manuscripts. The physical manuscripts were then systematically hand searched for relevant treatments for the above illnesses. The relevant prescriptions were captured, transliterated and translated for analysis. The black seed were one of the dominant ingredients used in Malay medicine as mentioned in the written manuscripts (MSs).

 

Keywords:  Habbatussauda, Nigella Sativa, Sunnah, Malay, Medical, Manuscript, black seed, jintan hitam.

 

 

Abstrak

Kertas ini bertujuan untuk mengenengahkan cara perubatan Melayu dalam merawat empat penyakit umum dalam golongan termiskin dunia (bottom billion) iaitu gastroenteritis, jangkitan cacing, anemia, dan letih lesu. Skop utamanya akan merungkai penemuan awal daripada 20 manuskrip perubatan Melayu yang tidak diterbitkan. Kajian ini memfokuskan kepada jintan hitam sebagai bahan utama dalam pemeliharaan kesihatan. Jintan hitam dalam tradisi Islam membuat titik perubahan yang signifikan dalam bidang perubatan kerana Nabi Muhammad telah mengesyorkan penggunaan jintan hitam sebagai ubat untuk semua penyakit kecuali mati. Strategi carian manuskrip Melayu lama telah dibangunkan untuk mengimbas katalog-katalog manuskrip Melayu yang relevan. Manuskrip fizikal kemudiannya dianalisa berdasarkan rawatan yang berkaitan untuk penyakit-penyakit di atas. Perskripsi perubatan yang berkaitan telah ekstrak, ditransliterasikan dan diterjemahkan untuk analisis. Justeru, jintan hitam adalah salah satu bahan dominan yang digunakan dalam perubatan Melayu seperti yang disebutkan dalam manuskrip tertulis.

 

Kata kunci:  Habbatussauda, Nigella Sativa, Sunnah, Melayu, Medikal, Manuskrip Melayu, black seed, jintan hitam.

 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Ab. Karim, Ab. Razak. (2006). Kitab tib pontianak. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Aggarwal, B. B., & Harikumar, K. B. (2008). Potential therapeutic effects of curcumin, the anti-inflammatory agent, against neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, autoimmune and neoplastic diseases. The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 41(1), 40-59.
Ahmad, Abdul Samad. (1983). Warisan perubatan Melayu. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Gimlette, J.D. (1923). Malay poison and charm cures. London: J&A Churchill.
Gimlette, J.D. and H.W.Thomson. (1903). A dictionary of Malayan medicine. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.
Katalog Manuskrip Melayu. (1997). Tambahan Keenam. Kuala Lumpur: Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia.
Katalog Manuskrip Melayu. (2012). Tambahan Ketujuh. Kuala Lumpur: Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia.
Katalog Manuskrip Melayu. (2012). TambahanKetujuh. Kuala Lumpur: Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia.
Mat Piah, Harun. (2003). Traditional Malay literature. (terj. Harry Avelling). Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Mat Piah, Harun. (2006). Kitab Tib: Ilmu peubatan Melayu. Kuala Lumpur: KeKKWa.
Padhye, S., Banerjee, S., Ahmad, A., Mohammad, R., & Sarkar, F. H. (2008). From here to eternity - the secret of Pharaohs: Therapeutic potential of black cumin seeds and beyond. Cancer therapy, 6(b), 495-510.
Tradisi Penulisan Manuskrip Melayu. (1997). Kuala Lumpur: Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia.
Tradisi Penulisan Manuskrip Melayu. (1997). Kuala Lumpur: Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia.
Wilkinson, R.J. (1955). A Malay-English dictionary. London:Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
Zakariah, Muhammad and Mustafa Ali Mohd. (1998). Traditional Malay medicinal plants. Shah Alam: Fajar Bakti.

Downloads

Published

2019-02-28

How to Cite

[1]
Mohd Razif, M.A. and Sempo, M.W. 2019. MALAY MEDICINAL PRACTICES AND PROPHETIC FOODS FOR TREATING THE FOUR TYPES OF ILLNESSES MOST COMMONLY FOUND IN THE BOTTOM BILLION POPULATION: A PRELIMINARY REVIEW IN THE USAGE OF NIGELLA SATIVA (BLACK SEED) IN MALAY MANUSCRIPTS FOUND IN MALAYSIA: Perubatan Melayu dan Penggunaan Pemakanan Sunnah dalam Merawat Empat Penyakit Utama dalam Kalangan Golongan Termiskin Dunia: Tinjauan Awal dalam Penggunaan Nigella Sativa (Jintan Hitam) Berdasarkan Manuskrip Perubatan Melayu di Malaysia. ‘Abqari Journal. 17, 1 (Feb. 2019), 52–56. DOI:https://doi.org/10.33102/abqari.vol17no1.85.

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2019): Journal of Islamic Social Sciences and Humanities

Section

Articles

License

The copyright of this article will be vested to author(s) and granted the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, unless otherwise stated.

Most read articles by the same author(s)