Epidemics of diphtheria had occurred in China during eighteenth century. At that time, the western medicine introduced in China was very much limited and not popularized in clinical practice. The therapeutics for diseases including diphtheria was chiefly relied on Traditional Chinese Medicine. The ancient Chinese physicians had accumulated abundant clinical experiences written in medical classi...

Western medicine and Chinese medicine are different systems that have been influenced by the cultures and scientific traditions from which they developed. Each contains its own set of Kuhnian paradigms. Though possessing some superficial and structural similarities, these paradigms are in fact quite different. The longevity of traditional Chinese medicine as an ancient method of healing may be ...

Modern medicine faces fundamental challenges that various approaches to the philosophy of medicine have tried to address. One of these approaches is based on the ancient concept of phronesis. This paper investigates whether this concept can be used as a moral basis for the challenges facing modern medicine and, in particular, analyses phronesis as it is applied in the works of Pellegrino and Th...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE The debate on the food-drug continuum could benefit from a historical dimension. This study aims at showing this through one case: the food-drug continuum in Greece in the fifth- and fourth-century BCE. I suggest that at the time the boundary between food and drug - and that between dietetics and pharmacology - was rather blurred. MATERIALS AND METHODS I study d...

Studies continue to report ancient DNA sequences and viable microbial cells that are many millions of years old. In this paper we evaluate some of the most extravagant claims of geologically ancient DNA. We conclude that although exciting, the reports suffer from inadequate experimental setup and insufficient authentication of results. Consequently, it remains doubtful whether amplifiable DNA s...

For 2010, we now begin the 10th year of the 21st century and eCAM has occupied five of them. eCAM covers have presented art to focus on some of the cultures, where integrative medicine was born and still thrives side by side with western medicine. These have been represented by art from Japan, Korea, India, Italy, China. Other vibrant cultures where CAM flourishes were not intentionally omitted...

Copyright © 2014, Iranian Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ISRAPM); Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There are many references in ancient Iranian literature on...

ttemational Hippocrates Colloquium ( 13th : 2008 : Austin, Tex.), author. Ancient concepts of the Hippocratic : papers presented at the xmth International Hippocrates olloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008 / edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph M. Rosen. p. ; cm. (Studies in ancient medicine, ISSN 0925-1421; volume 46) Includes bibliographical references and index. In English; two papers in Fre...