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Thursday 26 May 2016

The trace of evidence based medicine in Avicenna's approaches

Volume 15, Issue 57, Winter 2016, Pages 3-8



Infertility Ward, Arash Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Psychiatric Research Center, Roozbeh Psychiatric Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, South Kargar Street, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Many factors underlie the growing popularity of herbal treatments for a variety of chronic conditions. Interestingly, people who use alternative therapies are not necessarily uninformed. If anything, they are more "culturally creative" (i.e., comfortable with cultural changes) and more highly educated. Many people using herbal medicines find the health care alternatives are more congruent with their own values, beliefs and philosophical orientations toward health and life. Similarly, it seems likely that many people feel that herbal medicines are empowering by allowing them to treat themselves without seeing a physician. (This same attitude may be behind the growing popularity of patient-initiated diagnostic scanning procedures such as whole body scans). The danger is that, many people believe that herbal medicines have no toxicity problems or even side effects. In addition, they are not aware of many possible interactions of herbal medicine with concurrent prescribed medications. In this review we focus on Avicenna's evidence based medicine approaches in herbal medicine.

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Avicenna; Evidence based medicine; Herbal medicine
ISSN: 16840240Source Type: Journal Original language: English
Document Type: Article
Publisher: Institute of Medicinal Plants

  Akhondzadeh, S.; Psychiatric Research Center, Roozbeh Psychiatric Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, South Kargar Street, Iran; email:s.akhond@neda.net
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