Author/Authors :
Naghibi، Farzaneh نويسنده , , Khalaj، Amir نويسنده Department of Traditional pharmacy, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran. , , Hamzeloo Moghadam، Maryam نويسنده Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. ,
Abstract :
A Large number of people are affected by cancer and the primeval history
of this malady has attracted attention toward complementary and
alternative therapies to manage this disease. The present study has performed
a survey on cancer in the Iranian Traditional Medicine during the
Islamic era (ITM) by focusing on cancer terminologies and related diseases
over a millennium, from medieval to the early modern era. Seven
ITM medical texts, in Arabic and Persian languages, from 7th to 18th
century AD were evaluated. These medical literatures have been our the
sources of ITM cancer recognition clues. These clues have been related
to some cancer and cancer-like diseases. The terminologies could be
helpful for future ethnopharmacologic assay about cancer in ITM.
