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...

INTRODUCTION A number of traditional systems of medicine exist in India of which Ayurveda is the most popular. Despite being in use for more than 3000 years, few properly designed trials have scientifically examined the clinical potential of Ayurvedic and other medications. METHODS We reviewed the MEDLINE database to identify clinical trials conducted using traditional Indian medicines. Singl...

Man depends heavily on various plant species for his survival. Indian traditional system of medicine is based on empirical knowledge of the observations and the experience over millennia and more than 5000 plants are used by different ethnic communities in India. During the last few decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of medicinal plants and their traditional use in diffe...

one of the oldest medical schools in the world is ayūrvedic school or indian traditional medicine whose history goes back to five thousand years ago. this school, which was formed and came to maturity in india, has affected on other medical schools in the world and iranian medical school has been affected by it. in remnant texts of one of the eastern middle iranian languages, khotanese, in east...

Siddha is a natural treatment and the oldest medical system of healing in the world. Nadi which is a pulsebased diagnosis method which is the skill of feeling the pulse, and is known to dictate all the salient features of a human body. In this paper, we provide a complete spectrum of details of our procedure for obtaining three different pulses based on time series. This system contains contain...

Traditional medicine (especially ayurvedic medicine) was taken by Indian nationalismas a synecdoche for traditional culture. In the face of European claims for scientific andtechnologic pre-eminence, Indian thinkers such as Aurobindo, Vivekananda,Radakrishnan, accepted European representations of Indian thinking as mystic andintuitive, to define it as distinctive of Indian ident...

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