Objective: Anorexia and impaired appetite (Dysorexia) are common symptoms with varying causes, and often need no serious medical intervention. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a chronic psychiatric disease with a high mortality rate. In Traditional Persian Medicine (TPM), anorexia is a condition in which anorexic patients lose appetite due to dystemperament. This review aims to discuss the common point...

Abstract Introduction Pelvic massage is remarkable for being one of the oldest and most durable therapeutic medical practices, used treatment genital disease from Ancient world until present day. Although it commonly associated with diseases women, especially historical diagnosis hysteria, in our modern era pelvic to treat all human beings regardless sex. Through progress specialization technol...

Personality theory illuminates recurring problems in law school teaching. While the roots of modern personality theory extend back to Hippocrates and the theory of the four humors, contemporary ideas owe much to Carl Jung’s magisterial book, Psychological Types. Jung’s work gave us the categories of introvert and extrovert, as it explored what has come to be understood as the cognitive bases fo...

The importance of determining time of death is crucial to forensic cases. The ability to use electrolytes, ions and adrenal gland changes to determine the postmortem intervals were examined in this study. A total of 9 rats were used, three rats for determining postmortem “zero hour” the remaining 6 rats were divided equally into two groups to investigate postmortem “six hour” and postmortem “tw...

In the time of Galen (13I-20I) the vacant spaces between the cornea and the lens were assumed to be filled with a viscid fluid resembling the white of an egg. It was believed that this tissue-the lens, iris, and cornea-forming the boundary of these spaces was kept from desiccating by this fluid medium. This assumption prevailed for nearly I 300 years until Andreas Vesalius (5 I4-I564) revealed,...

Background Depression is one of the five most-common diseases globally, and is expected to be the second leading cause of disability by 2020 and its economic and social burden is a major problem worldwide. Objective The aim of this research was to elucidate the causes and symptoms of depression according to Persian Medicine (PM) and classic medicine. Methods In this study, works that were i...

BACKGROUND Cancer is the most important non-communicable disease and the chief cause of death in the world, which imposes a major burden on communities. It is expected that the number of new cancer cases will increase 70 percent worldwide in the next two decades. The exact cause of the disease is unclear in modern medicine. More than a third of all cancer cases are preventable and the other two...

This has been a brilliant composite of talks, representing an almost Gordon conference matrix, and I am honored to be a part of it. I am not personally acquainted with you, Nancy Bolton, but my congratulations for keeping your husband on the straight-and-narrow for these many years. I am sure it has been a challenge, and I praise your stalwart efforts. I do not honestly cast myself in the perso...

Plaguing humans for more than two millennia, manifest on every continent studied, and with more than one billion patients having an attack in any year, migraine stands as the sixth most common cause of disability on the planet. The pathophysiology of migraine has emerged from a historical consideration of the "humors" through mid-20th century distraction of the now defunct Vascular Theory to a ...