P-68: Intercourse Recommendations According to Classic and Traditional Medicine

Background: Health is a very essential issue in our world. From the classic and traditional medicine point of view, our surroundings and habitat including geographic location, climatic conditions , eating and drinking habits , training and emotions, contribute to a healthy life style. With an overview in traditional medicine, it is clear that there is another important aspect in preventive medicine and it is sexual life and intercourse. Materials and Methods: We reviewed reference textbooks in traditional Iranian medicine and classic medicine about sexual life and intercourse and their role in a healthy life style. We looked for sexual life and its relationship with eating, types of drinking, bathing, sleeping, special timing in the course of a day and its intervals in those references. Also we reviewed Al-Ghanoon by Avicina, Zakhireh Kharazmshahi and Kamel alsanaeh. Results: In Iranian traditional medicine, having healthy sexual life and intercourse not only serve as a means for pleasure, but they are also important aspects of a healthy life style. Conclusion: Therefore, they need to be performed in certain times and periods, there should be a prologue and foreplay and special limitations should be observed with regard to drinking and eating habits. The role of sexual life and intercourse in health and preventive medicine are essential. Also it is absolutely necessary to educate public about those essential issues in health clinics and primary care settings.