In Vol.2, No.1, 2014, Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infection Diseases a paper entitled “Rabies in Iran: Past, Present and Future” was published. We are grateful to Dr. Alireza Gholami and colleagues for this fascinating paper. We read the paper with a great interest but there is one point that should be taken into consideration. The authors have claimed that the discovery of rabies goes ...

Background. Fracture repair is a complex process. An inappropriate diet is a contributing risk factor for fracture nonunion. The aim of this study was to extract dietary recommendations for fracture healing according to traditional Persian medicine (TPM) literature. Method. The contents relevant to diets in fracture healing were selected from main textbooks in TPM like Al Qanon fi Alteb (The Ca...

Our knowledge of the ancient practice of medicine is scant, but we know it was established long before the 18th century BC when the Code of Hammurabi first set out laws governing the behaviour of doctors. In the few extant ancient sources, diagnosis and treatment are conjoined in the descriptions of cases or types of illness and there is no separate account of the medicines to be used. This cha...

conclusions according to iranian traditional medicine, the brain dystemperement is considered the main causes of alzheimer disease. by correcting the brain dystemperement, alzheimer can be well managed. this study helps to suggest a better strategy for preventing and treating alzheimer in the future. results findings showed that alzheimer disease has the most overlap with nesyan (fisad-e-zekr, ...

BACKGROUND Allergic rhinitis is the most common diseases affecting people in industrialized society. However, this is not a new disease and it was clinically described and treated for the first time by Rhazes (865-925 CE). The disease was also mentioned in "The Canon of Medicine" by Avicenna (980-1037). METHODS We searched in Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed for "allergic rhinitis", "intera...

Background Infertility, typically defined as the inability of couples to become pregnant after 12 months of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. Female infertility accounts for 45% of all infertilities among couples. In Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) there are variable recommendation for the prevention and treatment of female infertility and one of the most important is nutrition. The pu...

context worldwide prevalence of respiratory diseases, suffering from such diseases, and heavy cost of treatment, which all may result from lack of etiological understanding of these diseases in modern medicine, were the main factors to conduct the current study. in the present study, the causes and symptoms of asthma were evaluated and compared with those of some other respiratory diseases. ira...

The practice and study of medicine in Persia has a long and prolific history. The ancient Iranian medicine was combined by different medical traditions from Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China and Greece for more than 4000 years and merged to form what became the nucleus and foundation of medical practice in the European countries in the 13th century. The Iranian academic centers like Jundishapur ...

This paper investigates some of the ways that Chinese medicine has been transferred to the Western world and to Islamic territories. During the Golden Age of Islam (8th to 13th century CE), the herbal drug trade promoted significant commercial and scientific exchange between China and the Muslim world. Chinese herbal drugs have been described by medieval Muslim medical scholars such as Tabari (...