Ancient Remedy for a Modern Disease

Hemorrhoids: modern remedies for an ancient disease.

By Herman Villalba, MD Maher A Abbas, MD, FACS, FASCRS Introduction A patient arrives at your office with a chief complaint of hemorrhoids. Is it really hemorrhoids, or is it something else? How are hemorrhoids best treated? And when should you send the patient to see a surgeon? Hemorrhoids have plagued humankind since ancient times and might have even influenced world history. The emperor of F...

Crohn's disease: ancient and modern.

In 1932, Crohn, Ginzburg and Oppenheimer published their classical paper on regional ileitis in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).' Since then, it has been a popular pastime to document the many case descriptions ofCrohn's disease whch were published beforehand.2-4 Most of these were brief reports of small numbers.5-7 The most thorough studies were those of Moschowitz and W...

Cholera—Modern Pandemic Disease of Ancient Lineage

Cholera has affected humans for at least a millennium and persists as a major cause of illness and death worldwide, with recent epidemics in Zimbabwe (2008-2009) and Haiti (2010). Clinically, evidence exists of increasing severity of disease linked with emergence of atypical Vibrio cholerae organisms that have incorporated genetic material from classical biotype strains into an El Tor biotype b...

An Investigation concerning an Ancient Medicinal Remedy and Its Modern Utilities

Traditional Medicine: An Ancient Remedy Rediscovered

Around the world, the use of plants with pharmacological properties is the main medical resource. This practice is known as Traditional Medicine (TM), Indigenous Medicine or Folk Medicine. According to WHO [1], TM includes knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experience proper of different situations, applied to the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment ...