Background: Observing ethical principles and paying attention to human status based on Islamic teachings had a profound impact on the lifestyle and architecture of traditional Iranian buildings. Therefore, the meaningful relationship between architecture and ethics always provides for the spiritual needs of man, so as to achieve equilibrium in the architectural space. Accordingly, Islamic teach...

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In the history of Iranian architecture, mosques have always been the apex of Islamic art and architecture. The architecture of mosques seeks inspiration from the concepts of divine words to provide a space connecting the heavens and the material world and create a single spiritual environment. It is so important to identify the transcendental values of the past and choose the most essential val...

context ginger is the rhizome of zingiber officinale, a perennial plant, used alone or in compounds as a spice or remedy in ancient recipes of iranian traditional medicine (itm) as an effective tonic for the memory and digestive system, the opener of hepatic obstructions, aphrodisiac, for expelling compact wind from stomach and intestines, diluting, desiccating and emollient of phlegmatic and c...

since the energy consumption has become one of the crisis of modern buildings, modeling the iranian past architecture patterns could be helpful. the shopping streets as one of the main sectors consuming energy locate near the open spaces it seems, therefore, they need more thermal comfort. however, using passive techniques, the iranian traditional bazaars architecture solved the problems regard...

CONTEXT Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. In regards to the world's aging population, control and treatment of AD will be one of the major concerns of global public health in the next century. Alzheimer disease was not mentioned with the same phrase or its equivalent in traditional medical texts. The main of present paper was to investigate symptoms and causes of alzh...

1. Dept. of Iranian Traditional Medicine, School of Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Dept. of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia 3. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Rheumatology, Vali-asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical...

a large number of people are affected by cancer and the primeval history of this malady has attracted attention toward complementary and alternative therapies to manage this disease. the present study has performed a survey on cancer in the iranian traditional medicine during the islamic era (itm) by focusing on cancer terminologies and related diseases over a millennium, from medieval to the e...