objectives: lallemantia royleana (benth. in wall.) benth. (lamiaceae) is a medicinal plant used in iranian traditional and folklore medicine in the treatment of various nervous, hepatic, and renal diseases. in the present study, whole seeds of the herb were prepared and evaluated for hypolipidemic activities using an animal model. materials and methods: animals were fed normal diets or diets su...

evidence acquisition in this study, we examined a major resource of itm, the qanoon fi al-teb (the canon of medicine), by avicenna and the writings of prominent ancient scholars and physicians on the origins of catarrh. pubmed and google scholar were also searched for information on pnd and catarrh, and they were compared with the catarrh in itm. results physicians of itm believe that the main ...

background: camel milk is the closest to human mother’s milk. in the references on iranian traditional medicine, camel’s milk has been represented as the one having numerous nutritious and medical properties.objectives: in this article, the nutritive and therapeutic effects of camel’s milk have been examined from the view point of iranian traditional medicine.materials and methods: the present ...

conclusions vo can be presented as a safe, well-tolerated, and effective herbal preparation in patients with chronic insomnia. results improvements in sleep and isi scores were significantly greater in patients after a month receiving vo drop in comparison with before starting treatment (p < 0.05). a few patients reported some complications about vo consumption, most of which were mild and no s...

the major difference between iranian traditional medicine and allopathic medicine is in the application  of  evidence  and  documents.  in  this  study,  criteria  for  evidence-based  practice  in  iranian traditional medicine and its rules of practice were studied. the experts’ views were investigated through in- depth, semi-structured interviews and the results were categorized into four mai...

Objective One of the important systems traditional medicine that has grown in cradle human civilizations and always exported doctors, science to farthest corners world, is comprehensive system Iranian Traditional Medicine, which somehow different from common medicine. This article deals with differences between Medicine pupular a logical philosophical approach. Methods In this review article, w...

Objectives: COVID-19, a novel Coronavirus from same family as SARS-CoV-2 is highly contagiousvirus. It transmitted mainly upper respiratory system and affects important organs, like heartand lungs. The aim of this study identifying appropriate therapeutic methods originated persianmedicine. Materials Methods: This has been designed the viewpoints traditional andmodern medicine. Considering mode...

BACKGROUND The history of epilepsy and its treatments dates back to at least 4 millennia. Avicenna, c. 980 AD in Bukhara, Khorasan-1037 in Hamedan was a Persian-speaking Iranian physician, who has many recommendations and suggested various therapies for epilepsy in his book, The Canon of Medicine. METHODS We first reviewed the most important ancient treatments for epilepsy mentioned by Avicen...

background wart is a skin disease with circular appendages, which is called “suloul” in iranian traditional medicine (itm). according to itm literature, warts have different types and causes. the most important mechanism is excretion of materials (khelt) from body to skin and mucus; its causative material is often phlegm, black bile or a combination of them. to treat warts, it is necessary to c...