Using Crab Powder as Medical Treatment - Jurisprudential Answers - Miscellaneous Issues, Vol 4

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Question 85

We discovered that my mother had a bladder tumor before Ramadan. I asked you and the believers to pray for her, and we pursued medical treatment as well as folk remedies. She used a treatment mentioned in Diya' al-Salihin consisting of powder made from a sea animal called ‘Abu al-Janib’-crab-after roasting it, placing the powder into capsules and taking it. Is this treatment lawful or forbidden?

Source: Jurisprudential Answers - Miscellaneous Issues, Vol 4; Author: Imam Ahmed Al-Hasan; Question 85; Page Not available; FIQH-MISC-V4-Q085. View Arabic source · Open the original Arabic source ↗