Qat as poison part 7 -by Dr. Ibrahim I. El-gorafi 1983

on 10th April 1957 the French government declared cut to be a narcotic and strictly forbade its importation now as a narcotic produces addiction and an addict is then deprived of the drug he suffers from the so-called abstinence syndrome that is to say he exhibits severe symptoms and signs due to the complete dependence of the bodies physiology on that drug however to the best of my knowledge and belief this is not the case with cut for instance if we cut a decked leaves say the Yemen and goes to a country where cat is unobtainable he can let a normal life and feels little or nothing Beyond perhaps a slight headache or that vague feeling experienced by a smoker giving up tobacco certainly he will not die as Morphin addicts do so the cat doesn't lead to addiction but it leads to a habit the cat ceremony it's very necessary to prepare the body for taking cut at noon after the morning's War people may go shopping or to have a quick lunch or a good hot bath or a long walk hotland soup a lovely hot bath and work are indeed very necessary to prepare the body for cat people may go to the house of a friend or relative or to a celebration birth marriage or death the room is usually the largest in the house carpeted and with mattresses spread around beautiful pillows of various sizes lie behind the heads of guests who have between them other heart thick pillow as arm rests on the carpet in front of them are a number of hooks and patterns and also long spoons small cups and a clay pot of cold water the hookah the Hubble bubble pipes are of various sizes and are decorated in varying ways they are made of valuable wood and on top of each is a conical clay Brazilian the tobacco is placed in the brazier and then covered with a piece of ten which produces the large and stronger period of burning a hooker has a longitude made of coil wire covered with Woolen cotton or silk material one end is joined to the hookah and at the other is a beautifully decorated hand and mouthpiece made of a special kind of wood some guests however may prefer to smoke cigarettes and cola or wine may be drunk especially in the south of Yemen the guests start by picking the leaves one by one from their plastic bag handling them skillfully cold water is taken from the smaller cells cup silver cup filled with the long spoon when the field that their mouths are full of cat extract they spit onto the spit on in front of them the afternoon is spent token dancing listening to music or poetry or reading books the room will have large Windows looking out on a fine view the windows are kept tightly closed to exclude past in hodeidah the main city of tihama and a very hot place people usually sit on a high seats covered with tent but comfortable mattresses and lost look out at the sea if their houses on the seashore but they cannot enjoy the Gathering ceremony as the people of Sanada do because the climb is so hot cat is just wonderful they say that a lamb discovered while escaping from wolves tasted such a pleasant taste that's the Lamb's mouth water a man watched it and collected some he talked about it yes how he talked his Heavens believed him and fell in love with it too tell me is it useful can anyone answer me yes I have tasted I can't tell much about it my body Shook and dwells feverish even more than if I had drunk wine there is a stabbing humbly peace in the chest once the reality doubtless decline when the virility doubtless declines there is no power only pain and stress depression heart attacks and nervousness drove English blurring of vision dyspnea constipation and even coma headache and dizziness then rheumatism of the Giants it is better and more worthwhile Everyone likes coffee everyone drinks it this is my experience no doubt about it when you have my experience you will think as I do honey and his friends send this point to Ken Yahya and reply came back in the form of a poem written in the king's own hand that's more than 40 years ago cut is a good my friends it has advantages you have not mentioned it improves the vision and gives good sight it stains the lips a beautiful green how wonderful flowers eat it it relaxes you but stimulates you strengthen the memory to a remarkable degree keeps wide awake you would you he who would study you know that over eating and over drinking are bad for you and merely harmful one can eat cut and drink too but gluttony is a bad habit this is a just simple reply I feel forgive me questions constantinos an educated man from Hashem from a position the Palestine area at that time a wealthy healthy and advanced country he had heard about cat and expressed his healing in DC world it is clear that he himself and taking cut and had had taken cut and had experienced unpleasant symptoms because he was not used yet and probably he swallowed it but the king in contrast would have been taken cut since childhood and he never swallowed was used and would experience the euphorialistic instead of the unpleasant symptoms moreover the king would minimize that his advantages because he had much land devoted to the cultivation of God and would wish to produce it to awaken his subjects and keep their minds from such things as a revolution and education and there are many poems written about it I will be Satisfied by that first one now I shall move to the social aspects of cut the people of Yemen fall into these classes the first class rich people who can afford to buy all the cut they require whatever its price may be they may pay a pay as much as 5 a day that is 50 real nowadays 55 yes this is the I think it is coming now to uh 15 to 20 dollars for these people or more for this class I mean the second class this falls into two groups this group only buys a little cut the good citizen with many children and the family to look after tries to have a job which continues in the afternoon or does not take cut at all he might go to the cinema or have a good sleep instead be a man in this group will insist on having plenty of cats although he may have a limited income with quite a number of children and perhaps even more than one wife such a man is easily tempted into accept embezzlement or fruit the third group the third class this also falls into two groups a this group may be considered as consisting of adults who may who might even kill to obtain cut be people in this group would never take out unless say it had been gave as a present economic aspects of cut and a United Nations report made in 1962 we read of the case of worker from Alien with an income of 75p that is about 15 shilling per day this spending between 30 37p and 50p seven to six and ten challenge per day on card but we look carefully at this example we can appreciate how much his family lost chewing these leaves leads to a market deterioration of activity whether in agricultural or manufacturing also the cat plant is now replacing coffee and even vegetable and fruit trees virtual threaten the economy of Yemen the oven contains 44 million fat Dan of which 1 million are cultivated or they land the year round the rest comprises her tight areas forests and green Villages it would be quite possible to have a great amount of animal production enough water from Rain Springs and groundwater for the needs of the whole cultivated area the population of Yemen is about 6 million badly organized an experience and decline in production the average daily income per head from coffee is eight real as compared with 160 Rials per head from Cut so that coffee experts have been declining while our neighbors in Ethiopia and Somalia have been only a shadow of its former self now Yemen or coffee has lost its reputation since goats are also fond of cat leaves actual milk production is only about 50 percent of the possible production unfortunately the main source of government government revenue is tax in taxes on cut so that the government encourages its production it is difficult to apply the various theories to the solution of this problem because these theories were devised for other kinds of problems not for cat the solution can only be found in Wise governments by those members of the younger generation who believe in their country's future and who will give their sting and sweat for it medical aspect of cat and this book The Yemen from the back in his book The Yemen from the back door the German traveler hands says that there was no doubt that cat was dangerous to help if used over long period gradually changing the physiology of the body and destroying their different systems anyone can recognize the catch you are quite easily by his place face by his pale face and sunken eyes and by his low resistance to such diseases as typhoid and region III so we can well understand why yemeni soldiers were not strong enough to fight Saudi Arabian shoulders few years ago perhaps this book was written more than 30 years ago very broad claims have been made for the medical medicinal value of cat for example in his rights a cat is constipating the stringent analgesic and narcotic the dry leaves are more constipating very useful for tumor than the skin eruptions especially when mixed with vinegar and flower for flower s l o u r for drying up wounds and also spreading powder dry cat produced by burning the leaves with the word that is the greasy Rose it prevents fevery symptoms in the head and neck cures epilepsy or at least minimizes the number of hits if taken after meals very useful against mice mayor the dry Twigs will stop hibis taxes it shortens the breath it stimulates the and improves visual power is good for itching and epiphera and clearing up of these opacities in front of the eye if the cut Twigs are burned together we