treatment of meniere’s disease with persian medicine: a case report

Introduction: Meniere’s disease is one of the most common inner ear and vestibular disorders. Its conventional treatment gives un-satisfying results in some cases. This article introduces a patient with Meniere’s disease who has been treated with Persian medicine. Case Presentation: The patient was a 40-year-old woman, a known case of Meniere’s disease, who was advised to consume cinnar-izine and betahistine. Due to lack of satisfactory response to treatment, the patient referred to Persian medicine clinic. She followed the recommendations of Persian medicine and the disease was completely recovered. Conclusions: Treatment of Meniere’s disease in this patient was based on lifestyle modification, warming up the body, strengthen-ing the brain and the nervous system, enhancing the digestive system, modifying the condition of defecation, and removing waste materials and accumulated humors from the body, especially the head. It is believed that this case report will provide a basis for further studies on the impact of Persian medicine on the treatment of Meniere’s disease.