There is growing awareness that the profound changes in the environment (eg, in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry approximately 10000 y ago occurred too recently on an evolutionary time scale for the human genome to adjust. In conjunction with this discordance between our ancient, genetically determined biology and the nutr...

avesta is the oldest written text remained and extant from iranian old languages. it comprises of a collection of thousands of words and expressions covering almost all fields of religion and the culture of ancient human beings. with regard to what is left of avesta, the contents of the twenty-one nasks (“books”) remained from the sasanian period, and the documents existing in other books perti...

There is growing awareness that the profound changes in the environment (eg, in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry 10 000 y ago occurred too recently on an evolutionary time scale for the human genome to adjust. In conjunction with this discordance between our ancient, genetically determined biology and the nutritional, cult...

Cancer is one of the oldest diseases ever described, since ancient Egypt there have always been attempts to treat and cure this illness. The growing body of knowledge about breast cancer biology and improvements in surgical and medical treatments has been built over time with contributions from many talented and enthusiastic physicians and researchers. Medical advances have changed the approach...

Background: Iran is a land of great heritage of ancient medical scholars. Herbal medicines, as a basement of treatment of diseases have been clearly described in the medical texts of these scholars including Rhazes, Avicenna, and others. Numerous plants are introduced in these texts to treat those diseases likely to be infective ones. Few attempts have been made to evaluate ethnopharmacological...

According to one of the ancient proverbs in India,” there is no plant on earth which has no medicinal property.” More than 90% of the compounds used in modern medicine have their origin from plant sources. A large number of plants have been used by man from ancient times as medicine for curing various ailments. In recent times there is an upsurge of interest and focus on the importance of medic...

Traditional Chinese medicines are one of the most ancient medicines which are in use since long back. It has potential to cure large variety of diseases. Different variety of herbs as well as techniques such as acupuncture, moxibustion etc. are being used nowadays. Scientist are continuously looking forward to develop extracts from such plants using different ancient formulas to cure dreadful d...

Ancient schwannoma is a rare variant of neural tumors though rarely seen in the thorax. The combination with coronary artery diseases is also rare. Here we describe a 66 year-old male who had undergone one-stage combined surgery for thoracic ancient schwannomas removal and coronary artery disease. The masses were, respectively, 13 cm in the middle mediastinum and 5 cm in diameter originating fr...

Diseases and ailments have afflicted humanity since antediluvian times. Man’s response in treating disease and, on occasion, finding its cause has been synonymous with the evolution of society, no matter how ancient. Therefore, medicine as we know it today is as old as Man, and must have developed with the first awakening of human consciousness, evolving with successive civilisations. It is the...

Analyzing the conditions in which past individuals lived is key to understanding the environments and cultural transitions to which humans had to adapt. Here, we suggest a methodology to probe into past environments, using reconstructed premortem DNA methylation maps of ancient individuals. We review a large body of research showing that differential DNA methylation is associated with changes i...