Ibn Sina is regarded as one of the greatest physicians, thinkers and medical scholars in the history of medicine. Ibn Sina, a Persian scholar in the medieval era, wrote a famous book of medicine, the Canon of Medicine. The book was adopted as the main textbook of medicine in most Western and Persian universities. In the present critique, we analyzed the functional and anatomic descriptions of t...

Hemorrhoids is one of the most common gastrointestinal diseases. There are several therapeutic options associated with some complications. Therefore, researchers look for traditional medicines as a potential resource for introduction of new natural drugs. The current study reports an evidence-based review of herbal remedies for hemorrhoids in traditional Persian medicine. A comprehensive survey...

background and purpose: cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is caused by infection with leishmania parasites. standard treatment of cl includes pentavalent antimonials that are currently used in severe cases due to prolonged systemic therapy, high toxicity, complications, low efficacy, and resistance against the drug. therefore, it is necessary to develop new drugs or combination therapy for treatment...

CONTEXT The feeling of abdominal fullness, bloating, and movement of gas in the abdomen is a very uncomfortable sensation termed flatulence. Since flatulence is one of the most common gastrointestinal symptoms that is bothersome to patients, it is important to identify effective methods to resolve this issue. In modern medicine, management of flatulence is often not satisfactory. On the other h...

islamic golden age, 9-12 century ad, was the period through which persian scientists and physicians were most influential in improving medical sciences including cardiovascular knowledge. although post-islamic golden age witnessed a number of great persian scholars moving cardiovascular concepts forward, they failed to become as well known as their predecessors. one of these scholars was hakim ...

results bahaodowle razi, a persian physician from the 15th century anno domini (ad), reported two epidemics in harat and one in rey (inold persia) for the first time, one century before baillou. he named it as sorfe-ie-am (meaning public cough). those occurred during his lifetime. explaining about his observations and experiences about this epidemic, bahaodowle razi elaborated on prognosis, sym...

Samineh JAFARI, Soodabeh SAEIDNIA, Mohammad Reza SHAMS ARDEKANI , Abbas HADJIAKHOONDI, Mahnaz KHANAVI* Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14155-6451, Iran Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran Medicinal Plants Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran...

1- Traditional Medicine Clinical Trial Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran & School of Persian Medicine, 2- Shahid Beheshti University Medical Sciences, 3- 4- , [email protected]

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