What is the ruling on using live pigeon squabs to treat cancer by placing them on the patient's navel until they die?
What has been proven beneficial from treatment through direct experience, without harm or religious prohibition, is permissible to use. As for treatment with what has not been proven religiously or experientially, it must be abandoned. Physicians and experts should be consulted about the validity and benefit of the mentioned treatment, and whether it has been proven that a pigeon dies merely by placing it on the navel. If the method is proven free from charlatanism and sorcery, then it is permissible to use it for treatment.
Both apparent and hidden treatments are permissible if their benefit in medicine is known and they do not result in greater harm. The knowledge of something being a cause is either through revelation () or through destiny (), such as direct experience whose effect is evident, unlike what is merely a psychological feeling.
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