objective: in this study, the current literatures on the use of herbs and herbal preparations of traditional chinese and indian medicine for the treatment of opioid addiction were reviewed. methods: search was done in databases such as pub med, science direct, scopus, springer link, and google scholar. results: among 18 retrieved studies, 3 studies were about asafetida extract, an approved prep...

Previous studies have reported that majority of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment-naïve patients use traditional medicine (TM). Given that TM use is ubiquitous in South Africa especially for chronic conditions, there is a potential for ARV non-adherence and serious drug interactions among patients with HIV/AIDs who use TM. The motivating factors for TM use in HIV/AIDS patients on ARV and prophylax...

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...

background & aim: since traditional knowledge is base of producing new herbals and other natural products, and old people of ancient cities know about characteristics of such herbals, therefore, death of such people will gradually causes demolishing of their knowledge about herbals. therefore, it seems it is necessary to register and save such information. the goal of this research is to st...

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 pa...

context bowel obstruction is one of the most common causes of acute abdomen. because of heterogeneity of patients’ population and variety of causes, therapeutic strategies are not standardized, so treatment of intestinal obstruction is a surgical challenge in many cases. a traditional medicine approach could help detect some issues that were ignored by modern medicine. one of the major schools ...

research is considered axis of each progressing and scientific development. scattered studies without any logical plan won’t lead to the desired results. research prioritization in traditional persian medicine (tpm) is more necessary because of limited resources and manpower. this study was conducted in four phases with delphi’s pattern of study. at the first stage, it was consulted from tim de...