Otaibi, Chief of the Organizing Committee of the Conference, said that Saudi Arabia will initiate a research study on Qur'anic teachings on therapeutic effect with an emphasis to reinvigorate the old Islamic medicinal practices. Around 500 participants attending the conference will get benefit from 16 research papers being presented by medical experts belonging to Saudi Armed Forces medical services and Ministry of Health during the two-day proceedings. The medicinal practices now adopted in the West were actually based on the inventions by Arab and Muslim scientists in the past, which are now being re-exported to the Islamic world under the garb of complementary medicine , Maj.Gen. Otaibi said. The Islamic medicine was long forgotten and the efforts will be exerted to combine the modern healthcare services with that of Qur'anic teachings on medicine. "We are trying to combine the two and develop a system in a way which lessens the harmful affects of medicine and benefit the Saudi society more," he said. He said research studies on two completely new aspects of Islamic medicine already accomplished by Saudi medical experts would be presented during the two-day conference. There was no research conducted on the Islamic medicine for quite a long period now, he said. --MORE 10 53 Local Time 07 53 GMT
