BACKGROUND In order to define appropriate plans for respiratory infectious diseases, in accordance with Iranian traditional medicine, one should cover the topic of "havae vabai". "Havae vabai" is related to the epidemics of respiratory infectious diseases. METHODS This study is a review of the role of Iranian traditional medicine in the prevention of respiratory infectious diseases .Resources...

BACKGROUND Nutrition is one of the most effective components of human's health and nutritional practices have an important role in a healthy nutrition. Iranian traditional medicine, which is one of the holistic medical schools, has special approaches related to effective environmental factors in healthy nutrition. Identifying these special approaches is helpful to the medical community. The aim...

Aim: Many traditional treatments have been recommended in the alternative system of medicine for treatment of diabetes mellitus. Juglans regia is one of the medicinal plants used in traditional Iranian medicine as a treatment for diabetes, but little scientific documentation supports its antidiabetic action. Th e purpose of this study was to investigate antidiabetic eff ect of J. regia leaves i...

inflammation is one of the symptoms of many common and harmful diseases. as it is incurable through chemical drugs, the study on this ailment using new methods and drugs seems necessary. in addition, the adverse effects of the present anti-inflammatory drugs like nsaids and glucocorticoid appeared in the long time use make such study more demanded. accordingly, in this study we examined the eff...

arterial pulse measurement is one of the most important methods for evaluation of healthy conditions. in traditional iranian medicine (tim), physician may detect radial pulse by holding four fingers on the patient’s wrist. by using this method, under standard condition, the detected pulses are subjective and erroneous, in case of weak and/or abnormal pulses, the ambiguity of diagnosis may rise....