context traditional iranian medicine (tim) is a rich and valuable school of thought that believes medications are not the only effective approach for the treatment of diseases but that nutrition is also important. evidence acquisition our study includes two parts; the first is a book review of the canon of medicine by avicenna (10th and 11th centuries), in which we focus on finding and understa...

This paper aims to deal with the disputes on transferring demonstration between various sciences in context of medicine-geometry relationship. According Aristotle’s metabasis-prohibition, these two should be located separate compartments due characteristics their subject-matter. However, a thorough analysis critical passage Posterior Analytics circular wounds forces revision boundaries interact...

this is a letter to editor.There is growing interest in the health benefits of botanical diuretics. (1-2) ‎Avicenna (980-1037 AD), the foremost Iranian physician,‎‏ ‏introduced ‎numerous herbs as diuretics in his renowned book of Canon of Medicine. (3)‎Avicenna and his followers have recommended herbal diuretics for most ‎ailments accompanied by fluid superabundance like lassitude, oedema, and ...

With due regard to the side effects of some modern medications in the recent years, attentions have been drawn to some other alternatives such as herbal medicine. The latter drives from traditional and eastern medicine. Pioneers such as Avicenna are at the center of eastern, Iranian and Islamic medicine. This research aims at drawing attention of physicians, dentists and researchers to the subj...

Tuberculosis is at least as old as mankind and the history of tuberculosis is intertwined with that of civilization. Over the centuries its prevalence has waxed and waned but it remained a continuous threat. Its association with diabetes mellitus was reported by Avicenna (Ibn Sina 980-1037) an Arabian physician [1,2]. It was the leading cause of death in diabetic patients in the preantibiotic e...

The author has requested that the original article entitled "Genotyping Analysis of Circulating Fetal Cells Reveals High Frequency of Vanishing Twin Following Transfer of Multiple Embryos" that was published in the April-June 2013 issue of Avicenna Journal of Medical Biotechnology (AJMB) be withdrawn because the results were published without the co-workers being aware of this publication. Ther...