Legend of the umbilical cord

Was the umbilical cord through the history and diverse cultures share a multitude of myths that revolved around him, as it is a physical link for the life of the fetus in the womb of his mother and thus the fate of the baby and also his future in accordance with the ideas inherited.

Umbilical cord (scientifically) is the channel that takes the food from the placenta to the fetus inside the womb of the mother Its functions are to transport food and waste products that form in the body of the fetus to the mother's blood cycle.

Download the umbilical cord different implications on the fate of the baby and according to the researcher and of the popular Samir Tahan: "This thing can be seen in the paper and spells are on clay tablets in the Kingdom of Ugarit, Nineveh, even in China and India, there is a belief and opinions that the umbilical cord can be summarized in the lives of newborn there are many people read and some of them might read the words through the umbilical cord indicate the child's future, and since it summarizes the child's life was her private mythology where there may be the umbilical cord is in the hands of the enemy

And it is possible to do it some work like magic and that causes a negative impact on a child's future such as blindness, disability or lack of growth, "and continues:" Since the umbilical cord was summarized in the life of the baby and it is part of human life was present it Kndhir of the temples of old, there is a LE called "Lama" in the civilizations of the Sumerian and Phoenician and Akkadian and English name (Lamy) and Arabic (Lamia) what distinguishes this Fairy is a blue color to her lips and was the Fairy kidnap children and hurt them and in anticipation of this and in order to satisfy such pound baby when parents put their umbilical cord to their children in the structure this continued to pound one of the temples, have continued the habit, and entered in our region at the monotheistic religions became Muslims bury the umbilical cord in the mosque and the Christians in the Church and the Jews in the synagogue "

There are acts of magic possible to do it by the umbilical cord Ktgviv the umbilical cord and Takbith in place like a bag of money or - Kherjah - some of them might bring happiness for the newborn and his family and the belief others that it is possible that more than money, this myth does not exist in Syria alone, but spread in India, China, Latin America and Europe in particular, according to researcher said the miller.

We find in the inherited popular for the people of the city of Aleppo, Syria believe some still believe in it and that, when you eat the cat's umbilical cord for their children, the baby will die inevitably according to the tales of popular and therefore seek to be buried somewhere in a mosque or a church so as not up to place a cat or a dog and consumed, until it became for example, a popular (so and so ate the rope mystery cat) that any endangered

And soon after birth, tells the doctor the umbilical cord is 2 we continue from the navel of the child, and after a week of the birth of the baby dry this piece of cord, there are people who think putting the place sacred Kgama or the Church in the hope that their child is a good man in the future, but the sociology sees this phenomenon while juggling goes modern medicine that cord blood can benefit from stem cells in the future, a real revolution in the science of medicine.

Back stories of the umbilical cord superstitious to recover when the scientists in America and Europe, studies on stem cells and how they can use stem cells in umbilical cord in medicine and were the dreams in the future, was to have a sense that the living cells that descend from the womb of the mother has special powers that must be tapped and do not have the scientific capacity to use them, so Hakoa around in the old myths, and the scientific imagination in the umbilical cord is now a reality scientifically.

New thing in medicine is now the world is the umbilical cord blood and the blood of the placenta, according to Dr. Ahmed Sheikh, Director of Children Hospital Specialist in perpetuating Aleppo, explaining: "It is extracted from umbilical cord blood and keep it in cord blood banks as part of a certain temperature to be used later, because cord blood is rich in stem cells, which could be allocated for the manufacture of blood and contribute to the generation of red blood cells and strengthen the immune system, and this opens up new horizons in the treatment of blood diseases and cancer of the blood, and is thus open a new or even a real revolution in the world of medicine using these cells "

He continued: "Stem cells are cells specialized and incomplete division is possible under conditions suitable to split and generate the cells of origin, and this is what work it is now in the world by keeping the blood of the umbilical cord banks dedicated to this end, where they take blood from the umbilical cord and placenta completely such as blood donation, and are to benefit from cord blood in the future. "