My personal favourite Hadith which explains much of Islam is Bukhari 8:82:794. First there is the injunction to drink camel urine as a medicament, a palliative, a substance to improve one's health. I suppose in lieu of any other product camel urine might indeed suffice as a placebo or substitute for real medicine. It is highly doubtful that urine from any beast would be effective as a curative. And most mentally balanced people will never want to find out. But to Muhammad's Bedouin outlaws, effluence from the large beast was likely the apogee of medicinal development, a normal enough procedure, viewed as culturally acceptable.

The fact that camel urine would probably make you feel more putrid than whatever illness possessed you might not have been important to those in need. Today of course we have legions of latter-day Phds and chatterheads who will bobble that Islam 'created' not only medicine, but of course the entire corpus of science and mathematics.....such ignorance is deeply esteemed today and this is why of course Muhammad ordered these men to chug down some warm camel expulsion.

Volume 8, Book 82, Number 794 :

Narrated by Anas

Some people from the tribe of 'Ukl came to the Prophet and embraced Islam. The climate of Medina did not suit them, so the Prophet ordered them to go to the (herd of milch) camels of charity and to drink, their milk and urine (as a medicine). They did so, and after they had recovered from their ailment (became healthy) they turned renegades (reverted from Islam) and killed the shepherd of the camels and took the camels away. The Prophet sent (some people) in their pursuit and so they were (caught and) brought, and the Prophets ordered that their hands and legs should be cut off and that their eyes should be branded with heated pieces of iron, and that their cut hands and legs should not be cauterized, till they die.

Second, notice the intolerance of Muhammad and his men. This 'miracle' of drinking urine and becoming 'healthy' did not appear to induce a supine submission on those taking part. Neither did they feel any great need to worship Muhammad. So they did what any sensible person would do and left the cult. The payment for their troubles ? Torture and then death. No tolerance on the part of Muhammad and his brigands. So much for 'Islam is peace'. Apostasy in Islam is met with pain and eventually death. Period. Once you are in the cult you can never leave. The Eagles sang it best.

And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"

And in the master's chambers,

They gathered for the feast

They stab it with their steely knives,

But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was

Running for the door

I had to find the passage back

To the place I was before

"Relax, " said the night man,

"We are programmed to receive.

You can check-out any time you like,

But you can never leave! "