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Faculty of Traditional Medicine
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Definition of traditional medicine
In 1978 the World Health Organization issued a statement regarding the development of traditional medicine. Traditional medicine is defined briefly in this statement:
Set all the theoretical sciences and science in medical diagnosis, prevention and treatment of physical illness, mental or social disorder, and are transferred as a verbal or written statement from generation to generation.
Traditional medicine has been defined in more detail by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2002:
Traditional medicine is a general term that refers to traditional medicine systems such as traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda medicine in India and the Greek - Arabic and various forms of indigenous medicine. Traditional treatments include drug therapy (the use of medicinal plants, animal and mineral components) and non-pharmacological methods (such as acupuncture, massage and psychological treatment).
In countries where medical services in their system is based on modern medicine, instead of traditional medicine, terms of CAM therapies, non-conventional or alternative medicine are used.
Iranian traditional medicine:
Iranian traditional medicine, is a full and dynamic school (Maktab). Roots of Iranian traditional medicine school is believed to be over 3000 years ago. The Greeks were taught by ancient Iranian medical Doctors (hakeems). Star Iranian traditional medicine, such as Ibn Sina, Razi, Ali ibn Abbas Ahvazi, Ibn Abi Sadiq Nishaburi, Imad al-Din Mahmoud Shirazi, and Sayed Ismail Jarjani were responsible guidance about eight centuries of medicine in the West and East.
Doctor Norman Howard Jones writes in the Journal of the World Health Organization in 1972:
The most important author of medical books in Islam is Abu Ali Hussein Ibn Sina. His medical books are the most famous books in history of medicine and has been taught in medical schools in Europe and Asia for the Period of 500 years.
Scientific logic of Iranian traditional medicine:
The principles of nutrition in the school of Iranian traditional medicine is based on a sentence that the special nutritional needs of each individual is assumed based on their individual characteristics. Iranian traditional medicine emphasizes the prevention of disease by teaching the correct way of life and successful medical practitioner knows that maintain community health is based on self-management and will decrease the number of patients.
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The Iranian traditional medicine, the diseases can be divided into three categories:
A) bad mood disorders
And those who did not respect the principles of nutrition for their health a plurality of one or two quality of the four qualities have been (cold, warm / dry or moist) in the body
B) adverse conditions in combination
Which is a combination of diseases or natural part of the body is impaired as someone who is born without part of the body.
C) segregation and joint diseases
Here are a member of the natural connection is lost (e.g. fractures) and normal scattering is lost (e.g. due to organ motion is restricted Malunion). It comes to treatment after diagnosis, the treatment in Iranian traditional medicine is the way that the first step is to treat diseases by diet measures, and then turn to the work by hand (boasted measures), such as surgery, phlebotomy and ... Reached.
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