Journal:
:iranian red crescent medical journal
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mohammad mahdi ahmadian-attari department of traditional pharmacy, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
abolhassan ahmadiani neurobiology research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; neuroscience research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; department of pharmacology, university of malaya, kuala lumpur, malaysia
mohammad kamalinejad department of pharmacognosy, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
leila dargahi neurobiology research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; neuroscience research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
meysam shirzad department of traditional medicine, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
mahmoud mosaddegh department of traditional pharmacy, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; department of traditional pharmacy, faculty of traditional medicine, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran. tel: +98-2188773521, fax: +98-2188776027
objectives this study tried to codify the recommendations of iranian traditional medicine (itm) by studying the main medical manuscripts. the second purpose was to compare these findings with new medical information. materials and methods cardinal traditional medical and pharmacological texts from 10th to 18th century were searched for traditional terms of dementia (nesyan, fisad-uz-zekr, faram...