BACKGROUND Traditional medicine is one of the medical schools, which has been considered in recent years. Achieving reliable and valid research in ITM is very important to introduce this line of medicine into the healthcare organizations. The aim of this study was to investigate clinical research issues in ITM. METHODS This study is a qualitative research. We formed an expert panel and, after...

The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of published and unpublished research investigating the prevalence of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TMCAM) use in the general population. Results found that use of a traditional and/or faith healer seemed to have decreased over the past 13 years (from a range of 3.6-12.7% to 0.1%). The prevalence of traditional male...

conclusions our data of this article suggests that causes of palpitation in the aspect of traditional medicine are completely different from modern medicine. it can help us to approach and treat this symptom better and with lower side effects than chemical drugs. according to this article we are able to detect a new approach in palpitation. materials and methods we addressed some descriptions t...

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conclusions the article presents the relation between anemia and liver dysfunction viewed by iranian traditional medicine as an important finding in designing a treatment plan. despite the new findings on the evaluation of liver function (i.e. laboratory tests), it seems that further studies for earlier evaluation of liver function in anemia are highly required. results our findings proved that...

background & aim: nepetabracteata benth is a medicinal plant belongs to the lamiaceae family which wildly grows in khorasan province. this herb is used by the indigenous people as afolkloric medicine in khorasan. this paper aimed to study the situation and application of this plant in traditional medicine of khorasan province.experimental: current study was done by questionnaire and intervi...

background & aim: treatment with herbal medicines is very popular in all over the world. nowadays, using medicinal plants has increased because of undesirable effects of the chemical drugs. more than 10000 plant species are used for medicinal purposes, mainly as traditional medicines in the treatment of dysmenorrhea.  the aim of this study was determining the rate of herbal remedies to reli...

OBJECTIVE Pressed for time to address competing clinical demands within the brief clinical encounter, primary care clinicians often rely on observations of patients to select topics to address. Use of traditional, complementary, or alternative medicine (TM/CAM) may be an important topic for discussion with a patient, but identification of patients using TM/CAM is problematic. We conducted this ...