BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases are among the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. One of the important risk factors of cardiovascular disease is hyperlipidemia especially high levels of serum cholesterol. Due to the importance of hypercholesterolemia, being a serious condition, various treatments are used to control it, regardless of the cause, most of treatments, ...

Replying message to interesting letter “Emporiatrics: The Traveler Medicine’’, published in Iranian J Publ Health, which has recommended that traveler medicine will be characterized by new methods of therapy and prophylaxis (1), it may be interesting that there are some resources in Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) which include this topic and even some books pertain exclusively to this subje...

Cervical laceration has been identified as a known cause of postpartum hemorrhage. A review of existing literature obtains little information on the incidence and risk factors for cervical laceration after vaginal delivery (1). In the Iranian Traditional Medicine, all types of vaginal, cervical and uterine lacerations named as a common term of uterine fissure or "sheghaghe rahem". In this field...

Background: According to human history, “infertility” has long been of interest to scientists, which has led to the discovery of its causes. Nevertheless 15-25% of infertility cases are still termed as idiopathic. In Iranian traditional medicine school, special attention has been paid to this issue, so part of the great written documents of this school is dedicated to the study of the causes an...

Paralytic ileus is type of functional obstruction caused by the lack of intestinal peristalsis without any mechanical obstruction. This interference of the flow of intestinal contents often leads to intestinal obstruction. Paralytic ileus may be classified into postoperative, inflammatory, metabolic, neurogenic, and drug-induced (1). The incidence of paralytic ileus is high especially after abd...

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History acknowledged Ibn Sina, or Avicenna, the author of the highly skilled textbook of medicine "Al-Qanun Fi Al-Tibb" or "The Canon of Medicine", as one of the greatest physicians in medicine. According to this medical textbook, the explanation of the existence of a cold temperament for sleep was that during sleep hours, people tended to have a movement of the nature of the body toward the in...

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background: recently, the traditional and complementary medicine has largely gained interest among scholars across the globe. keeping pace with the on-going trend, the iranian academia have provided the phd course on traditional iranian medicine. in this study, we attempted to perform a qualitative study, comparing the phd curricula of the chinese and iranian traditional medicine in detail. met...