conclusions this study showed the efficacy of m. longifolia in relieving pds symptoms and improving the qol of patients with pds. results at the end of treatment period, the m. longifolia group reported a more significant improvement in the mean severity scales of fd symptoms than the placebo group (p < 0.001). a significant difference was also observed between fd symptoms and severity scores i...

dry cupping is one of the main procedures in many traditional medicine systems all around the world with its root in antiquity. traditional method of dry cupping is depended on practitioner proficiency and can lead to skin burn if the practitioner is a beginner. on the other hand, zahrawi (11th century ad), the muslim physician from andulus (current spain) presented two novel forms of cup for c...

discussion while this novel type of drug delivery is known as a suitable substitute for oral and parenteral administration, it was well accepted and extensively mentioned in persian medical and pharmaceutical manuscripts and other traditional systems of medicine as well. accordingly, medieval pharmaceutical standpoints on nasal dosage forms could still be an interesting subject of study. theref...

context functional dyspepsia (fd) is a functional gastro-intestinal disorder with high prevalence. among various treatment options, treatment by complementary and alternative medicines especially herbal remedies also practiced. traditional iranian medicine (tim), a valuable resource of valid applied studies of ancient iranian scholars, recommends numerous medicinal plants to treat dyspepsia sym...

background &amp; aim: reason destroyer and side effectories some chemical drugs , many pations would to use medicinal plants , on the other hand new medicine nevereless cost and powerful ,have problems for treat some maladies specically chronic maladies. we at this article surveid satisfactoryُ s pations of herbal medicine to compare with new therapeutic ways and defined that further pations for...

historically, there is a consensus that islamic medicine followed the persian, greek and egyptian medicine and that a large number of muslim scholars were non-arabs. it is also known that most famous islamic physicians who took their knowledge to arabic countries received their education in the famous and credible university of gondishapour in iran. therefore, in order to develop a more compreh...

1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Imam Ali Cardiovascular Centre, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Yazd Cardiovascular Research Centre, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran ...