evaluating the causes and symptoms of pulmonary disease of asthma, according to the iranian traditional medicine, and comparing it with other respiratory tract diseases

context worldwide prevalence of respiratory diseases, suffering from such diseases, and heavy cost of treatment, which all may result from lack of etiological understanding of these diseases in modern medicine, were the main factors to conduct the current study. in the present study, the causes and symptoms of asthma were evaluated and compared with those of some other respiratory diseases. iranian traditional medicine, as a holistic medical ideology, has comprehensively evaluated all diseases, especially pulmonary and thoracic diseases which include a wide range of diseases, and has provided various therapeutic low risk methods for each one. evidence acquisitions the current study was a systematic survey that evaluated causes and symptoms of asthma, which have been discussed in reliable iranian traditional medicine books such as canon of avicenna, “kamelul-sana’a” of ali bin abbas ahwazi, “sharhul-asba’bva al-alama’t” of nafisibnawazkermani, “teb al-akbari” of hakim arza’ni, and “exira’zam” of hakina’zam khan chashti; after analyzing, concluding and categorizing, the results were compared with the causes and symptoms of some other pulmonary diseases. results the symptom of this disease is similar to some other pulmonary disease, like respiratory changes, asthma, tachypnea. conclusions according to the similarities between clinical symptoms of some pulmonary diseases, such as asthma, and lack of etiological understanding of these diseases in modern medicine, in addition to the different proposed etiologies for asthma in iranian traditional medicine, with the help of restoration and use of iranian traditional knowledge of medicine, valuable helps can be provided for patients to diagnose and treat this disease; and through designing and performing different clinical studies, simple, economic, low complicated and high privileged treatments can be applied.