Author/Authors :
Esmaeili، Seied Saeid نويسنده Department of Iranian Traditional Medicine of Shahed University, Tehran, Iran , , Noormohammadi، Gholamreza نويسنده Department of Maaref, Tehran university, Tehran, Iran , , Fallahi، Faramarz نويسنده , , Kamali، Seyed Hamid نويسنده Department of Traditional Medicine, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran ,
Abstract :
Medical books written in Islamic societies have devoted special chapters
to preventive medicine named Hefzossehha’. Nowadays, Ferdous
Alhekmah is considered as the first medical text authored by Muslim
scientists in Islamic countries. But in this review study we offer a more
ancient text that belongs to Ali Ibn Musa (Imam Reza PBUH), the 8th
Imam of shi’ites. This text was written about 815-818 AD while Imam
Reza was in Marv, the Abbasid’s capital city during the al-Ma’mun’s
governance (813-833). This precedes the book of Tabari (810-855),
Ferdous Alhekmah. This text was written specifically about preventive
medicine and contains nutritional patterns; the effect of weather, sleep,
four temperaments and humors on health; personal hygiene; cupping
and phlebotomy; health care in travels; sex hygiene and its influence
on fetus health and prevention of some especial diseases. This text was
different from many books in this field in some ways. Thus, al-Ma’mun
commanded some scribes to write the text with gold and therefore it is
famous to “Resaleh Zahabieh” which means golden letter.
