Smelling drugs application, in the prevention and treatment of disease, from the perspective of Iranian traditional medicine
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Nowadays "Aromatherapy" as a branch of phytotherapy is an alternative and complementary medical discipline. The historical studies show us that ancient cultures had a great attention to aromatic plants and used to apply them widely in various aspects of their life from religious rituals and embalming their deads to cosmetics and medicinal purposes. Considering the ancient litterateurs, the fragrances were used widely both for preventive and therapeutic purposes in Iranian traditional medicine. Our great physicians (Hakims) like Rhazes , Avecinna , Ali Ibn Rabban Tabari and so on, had designed and practiced a systematic therapeutic protocols consist of natural aromatic and smelling drugs beside other types of therapies, for a wide range of diseases which will be explained in the full text of this article. For example Ibn Nafis in "Al moujaz fi al-tibb" said:" pleasant smells are one of the good general treatments for most of the diseases." In addition, there are many methods of preparation of natural aromatic drugs in our traditional pharmaceutical texts like "Gharabadine kabir","tohfa al-momenin" and "Makhzan al-advieh". So we can conclude that Iranian traditional medicine has a more important role in innovation and progress of aromatherapy than whatever has been supposed.
Language: English
Topic: History of Medicine Studies
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2223415965