background: male infertility accounts for 30-50% of all infertilities among couples. iranian traditional medicine (itm) stressed the importance of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of male infertility. many iranian traditional physicians have described the traits of specific foods for prevention and treatment of male infertility. objective: to explore the principles and roles of foods r...

Indigestion, flatulent dyspepsia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain or discomfort are among the commonest complaints in adults attending their doctor’s surgery or medical out-patient department (Switz, 1976). Investigations by x-ray or endoscopy may show a peptic ulcer, diseased gall-bladder or other lesion, but in many cases objective investigations are negative. Symptoms in these patients may ...

The fruits of Withania coagulans Dunal (family: Solanaceae) are sweet, sedative, emetic, alterative and diuretic; used to treat asthma, biliousness, strangury, wounds, dyspepsia, flatulent colic, liver complaints and intestinal infections. Phytochemical investigation of the fruits yielded a withanolide tetraglucoside identified as (20S, 22R)-5alpha, 20alpha-diacetoxy-6beta-hydroxy- 1-oxowitha-2...

The area I refer to is a bit of country lying between two rivers with my headquarters as the centre. The country is fertile at both ends-, being fed by rivers. But the affected area is arid, the climate is hot and dry, and the soil consists mainly of conker and to a less extent of black clay and red earth. It is fed by rain and the people draw their water supply almost exclusively from rain-fed...

INTRODUCTION The use of traditional medicine has been emerged in the treatment of BPS (bladder pain syndrome) due to its high prevalence and expenses and its insufficient treatment by conventional therapies. Iranian traditional medicine has discussed such diseases. Considering the signs and symptoms of BPS and "reeh", the proposed mechanism of flatulency as casualty of recurrent circulating pai...

Background: In Indonesia, this species was well known in Sumatera, Kalimantan, Java, and Sulawesi. Peronema canescens Jack (Sungkai) traditionally used as an anti-flatulent, fever, toothache. Sungkai leaves contain many secondary metabolites with potential anticancer activity. The reported research still limited to the cytotoxic activity of chloroform extract on HT-29 colon cancer cell line. Ho...

From time to time someone makes us think about the way that doctors speak and write English, both in note taking and in writing for publications. Asher “revelled in the clinical paradox and the unusual; delighted in poking fun at authority and pomposity; a modern Don Quixote.” He opened our eyes to how medical authors are adept at using arcane words and jargon, mixing them in unwieldy sentences...