BACKGROUND According to WHO estimation, the number of diabetic patients would reach about 591.9 million people in 2035. The tendency towards other kinds of treatment is increasing because of the high therapeutic expenditures and current medical complications. Positive results of massage in recent articles and the prominent role of dalk in Iranian traditional medicine led us to the present study...

the term massage comes from the french verb” masser” which means to rub. in greek, it comes from the word “masso” which means to rub with the hands. massage therapy has been very common among different nations since antiquity. in iranian traditional medicine, the word “dalk” has been used with the meaning of massage. among various functions known for giving massage that used for the athletes re...

objectives: lallemantia royleana (benth. in wall.) benth. (lamiaceae) is a medicinal plant used in iranian traditional and folklore medicine in the treatment of various nervous, hepatic, and renal diseases. in the present study, whole seeds of the herb were prepared and evaluated for hypolipidemic activities using an animal model. materials and methods: animals were fed normal diets or diets su...

evidence acquisition in this study, we examined a major resource of itm, the qanoon fi al-teb (the canon of medicine), by avicenna and the writings of prominent ancient scholars and physicians on the origins of catarrh. pubmed and google scholar were also searched for information on pnd and catarrh, and they were compared with the catarrh in itm. results physicians of itm believe that the main ...

background: camel milk is the closest to human mother’s milk. in the references on iranian traditional medicine, camel’s milk has been represented as the one having numerous nutritious and medical properties.objectives: in this article, the nutritive and therapeutic effects of camel’s milk have been examined from the view point of iranian traditional medicine.materials and methods: the present ...

conclusions vo can be presented as a safe, well-tolerated, and effective herbal preparation in patients with chronic insomnia. results improvements in sleep and isi scores were significantly greater in patients after a month receiving vo drop in comparison with before starting treatment (p < 0.05). a few patients reported some complications about vo consumption, most of which were mild and no s...

the major difference between iranian traditional medicine and allopathic medicine is in the application  of  evidence  and  documents.  in  this  study,  criteria  for  evidence-based  practice  in  iranian traditional medicine and its rules of practice were studied. the experts’ views were investigated through in- depth, semi-structured interviews and the results were categorized into four mai...

background: rosacea is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that affects 0.5–10% of the population. common symptoms are redness and itching in the nose bridge area, especially cheeks. the cause is not completely understood but genetics, increased growth of bacteria in the small intestine, and increased activity of demodex mites are considered responsible. there is no certain cure for it; however...

conclusions evaluation of iranian traditional dosage forms like vaginal and rectal types could be an attractive topic of research and the current study can briefly represent the iranian traditional pharmaceutical knowledge on vaginal and rectal drug delivery. objectives the aim of this study is the investigation about iranian traditional pharmaceutical dosage forms of vaginal and rectal medicat...

We have developed a simple algebraic approach to music description and composition called Haskore In this framework musical objects consist of primitive notions such as notes and rests operations to transform musical objects such as transpose and tempo scaling and operations to combine musical objects to form more complex ones such as concurrent and sequential composition When these simple noti...