to express their ideas, feeling, and imagination, a large number of ancient arab poets employed terminologies current in that period, especially those related to spices and herbals and their advantages. their main impetus came from their investigative instinct as well as their religious beliefs that emphasize the importance of herbals for their medical and nutritional benefits. hence, such subj...

Traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine have their distinctive superiorities, and are mutually complementary in spite of their different systems of theory. The integration of traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine can promote the development of medical science. Over the past 40 years, a number of great achievements have been made in the field of the integratio...

Medical discourse is replete with the language of war and such phrases as ”the war on cancer,” ”magic bullets,” “silver bullets,” “the therapeutic armamentarium,” “agents of disease,” “the body’s defences,” and “doctor’s orders” are deeply engrained in our medical rhetoric. The mindset engendered by this discourse of war renders the patient as a battlefield upon which the doctor-combatant defea...

The implications and effects of the French commission that passed judgment on Mesmer's work is examined in light of the pioneering role of hypnosis as the first Western conception of a psychotherapy, the ancient philosophical debate between idealism and empiricism, and the conflict in modern medicine between biotechnological emphasis on cure and the need for care as many previously terminal ill...

Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in adults and one of the main reasons for morbidity. Hypertension is one of the most important modifiable risk factors of cardiovascular disease and in India; it is the leading non communicable disease and estimated to be attributable for nearly 10 percent of all deaths [1]. Adult hypertension prevalence has risen dramatically over th...

ment of diseased conditions, but have actually rendered possible the evolution of modern surgical methods. A yet closer tie has been established by the direct help which laboratory methods have of recent years afforded towards the discrimination of diseases, a help which further progress should render still more definite and valuable, and one which has been generously and ungrudgingly recognise...