Camel hump (जहाँ ऊँट के शरीर मे पानी इकट्ठा होता है)

अकसर हजरत मुहम्मद की हदीस पर जिसमे केमल हम्प से पानी पिया जिसपर गैर मुसलीम ये अफवाह फैलाते है!हिन्दुओ को ये अधिकार नही कि वे सवाल पुच्छे क्योकि ये खुद गाय का पेशाब पीते है ! पर फिर भी हम आपको जवाब देते है! जब ऊँट पानी पीता है तो हम्प मे जमा हो जाता है और ग्रंथी सिकुड जाती है!
जब रेगीस्तान मे पानी नही मिलता तब इसी हम्प से अग्नाशय मे जाने वाली नली को काटकर पानी पिया जा सकता है! 

डिस्कवरी चैनल पर मैन वर्सिस वाइल्ड के बियर  ने अपनी सहारा ट्रिप के दौरान टीवी पर केमल हम्प से पानी पीकर बताया था....
कुछ रोचक जानकारी हम यहाँ दे रहे है

hump
June 30, 2007 11:13 AM Subscribe
People drank from a rumen. Although no-
one died, is it really okay?
In the buff morning light, Riley saw a native
boy plunge his head into the camels gaping
rumen and drink. Hamet seeing Riley's
interest, told him to remove the boy and
take his place. Riley scooped the
nauseating cavity with a bowl and poured
the ropy green fluid down his throat. What
he swallowed could not have been more
refreshing had it been the spring water he
once dreamed of turning into a spa.
"Though its taste was exceedingly strong,"
he later wrote with his usual equanimity,
"yet it was not salt, and it allayed my
thirst". Skeletons on the Zahara: A True
Story of Survival
In the movie The Killing Fields, they
showed a starving Dith Pran sneaking into
a stable and cutting cows necks so he
could suck some of their blood for
sustenance to stay alive. I haven't read the
book you're quoting from but the Sahara is
not a hospitable environment so people
have been known to do whatever they have
to when they are in survival mode. Camels
are very very valuable to the Egyptian
people & while I could be wrong I'm not
sure they'd sacrifice one under normal
circumstances. So... I'd say the benefit of
drinking from a camel's hump is that
you're not dead in the desert and your belly
is full. And the downside is that it's
probably pretty disgusting and you now
have one less camel.
posted by at on
June 30, 2007
miss lynnster 11:53 AM
Given that it's "A True Story of Survival,"
I'd think that drinking from a camel's hump
is better than dying of dehydration if you've
been lost in the desert for a week.
But just reading the words "scooped the
nauseating cavity with a bowl and poured
the ropy green fluid down his throat" made
me feel queasy.
So I'm with miss lynnster: if you're
stranded in a desert, it's better than the
sure death of not drinking. But I wouldn't
recommend putting a straw in a camel's
hump in lieu of carrying a water bottle.
posted by at on June 30,
2007
fogster 11:59 AM
A camel's hump is comprised of fat, not
water. A rumen is part of a stomach, and
has nothing to do with a hump. So in this
story, it seems that people drank water
from the stomach cavity (or a compartment
of a stomach) of a dead camel.
posted by at on June
30, 2007
iconomy 12:14 PM
The rumen is where pre-digestion happens.
Usually very culturally active. In the
microbial way, not the supports the opera
kind of way. The microbes break down
cellulose and other parts of the plant so the
owner can benefit from its simpler
nutritional value.
If it were the only thing available, and I
might die if I didn't. I suppose I'd drink
from it. But as it might have indigestible
plant material and probably lots of
microbes, and has been fermenting funkily
in a dead animal, I'd have to be pretty
desperate. I have my doubts about it's
palatability .
posted by at on
June 30, 2007
Toekneesan 12:58 PM
Having worked with fresh rumen contents
(although not from a camel) I can tell you
it's pretty damn unpalatable. And the
smell doesn't wash off, it just fades over
a few days. Faeces is actually marginally
more pleasant.
While we were always careful not to get it
on our faces and to wash afterwards, it's
not specifically toxic. Just lots of
anaerobic bacteria and partially digested
plants. The bacteria could make you ill or
give you a tummy ache but they aren't
usually pathogenic (or the animal would
get sick too) and would probably just
pass through. You'd want to watch out
for parasites though, there are some
types of worms that could be found in the
rumen. You wouldn't get much
sustenance from it because humans can't
digest the cellulose but it would provide
liquid and some nutritional content.
Given a choice between dying of thirst
and drinking rumen fluid, the rumen is
definitely a viable choice. Probably not a
standard part of the diet (or even a
delicacy) but not worth wasting.
note IANARB (not a rumen bacteriologist),
just a large animal technician in a
previous life.
I have my doubts about it's palatability .
posted by at on June
30, 2007 [ ]
shelleycat 3:53 PM
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Tripe is made from the contents of the
rumen (amongst other stomachs) and is
actually pretty nutritious. The bacteria are
breaking down the plant matter and then
you "eat" the bacteria. They wash it to get
rid of the (atrocious) smell but that's all.
andouille & haggis are both made form
tripe, so is one kind of popular Mexican
sausage.
posted by at on June 30,
2007
fshgrl 3:59 PM
I see this as a moral question: "is it right to
drink from a rumen?". If it is a matter of
survival, then I would say yes. A human
life, in our scheme of things, is more
valuable than a camel's. If the camel died
of natural causes, then it would be even
more right, although there might be some
health considerations about drinking the
crap from a camel's stomach, but that isn't
a moral problem.
People drank from a rumen. Although no-
one died, is it really okay?
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