Canadian Association of Persian Medicine

Integrative Medicine

Integrative Medicine is healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between practitioner and patient, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapies.

Naturopathic Medicine

Naturopathy or naturopathic medicine is a form of alternative medicine that employs an array of pseudoscientific practices branded as “natural”, “non-invasive”, or promoting “self-healing”. In Naturopathic medicine natural remedies are used to help the body heal itself.

Persian Medicine

Persian traditional medicine is grounded in the concept of four humors: phlegm (Balgham), blood (Dam), yellow bile (Ṣafrā’) and black bile (Saudā’) .The four humors concept is based on the teachings of Rhazes and Avicenna into an elaborate medical system.

Air

One of the essential tools for maintaining health is the air around human beings. The best air is the air that maintains health during health and restores health during illness. It also strengthens the body and helps digestion.

Suitable weather feature:

Be temperate in terms of temperature

Free of dust and smoke

Free from toxic fumes and pollution such as the air around mercury and sulfur mines, swamps, ponds, garbage dumps, the air around trees such as walnuts and figs

orders to keep the air in the house clean

Avoid smoking at home and also using chemical air fresheners and insecticides.

Empty the inside of an apple or apple and fill it with rose water and put it on the heat to make it smell like home.

Pour a glass of vinegar in 18-20 glasses of water and put it on a very low heat to boil continuously.

Cut some onions, garlic and oranges or any of them that were available in half and put them in the corners of the room and the place of sitting and getting up, especially the sleeping place of the family, and after every 24 hours, the onion. Replace fresh garlic and oranges.

One of the important factors affecting the weather is the change of seasons.

Seasonal measures from the perspective of traditional medicine

Spring temperament

Warm and humid in moderation and suitable for all ages, especially middle-aged

Common spring diseases

Diseases such as nosebleeds, blood clots, pimples, swollen pimples, pimples, itching and colds, hoarseness, and cough are more common this season.

Spring orders

Helping nature to excrete waste products from the body such as: drawing blood, giving laxatives

Eat less blood-forming foods such as meat and sweets. Exercise and rest in moderation.

Summer temperament

Hot and dry. Suitable for old age.

Common summer diseases

Indigestion and gastrointestinal diseases are more common.

Important summer orders

Reduce the volume of snacks, especially lunch. Consume fast digestible and light foods. Less exercise and more rest.

Autumn temperament

Cold and dry and agrees with childhood

Common diseases of autumn

Depression, stroke and heart disease, skin diseases such as eczema

Fall Season orders

Avoid consuming too much fruit. Use more hot and fresh foods and sweets.

Winter temperament

Cold and wet and agree with the temperament of young people and hot and dry people

Common winter diseases

Joint pain, lung diseases such as pneumonia

Winter orders

Consumption of nutritious foods such as kebab, culture with spices such as cinnamon and cumin. Most sports activities. Avoid excessive rest.

Eating and drinking

Although the recommendation to “drink at least 8 glasses of water a day” has become a common recommendation, according to traditional medicine experts, even drinking this amount of water a day may be harmful. In traditional medicine, it is said that a person should drink water only when he is really thirsty. There are also conditions in which drinking water is forbidden at that time, such as: when or after eating, fasting, after Heavy work or exercise, after sleep, after intimacy, after eating fruit, drinking hot water after salty food and cold water after hot food, after bathing, after diarrhea, etc. The side effects of drinking more water than the body really needs are clearly stated in traditional medicine books: puffy eyelids, indigestion, nasal discharge and many other disorders associated with excessive water consumption. This is the principle that traditional medicine scholars have emphasized for hundreds of years. Another important point is that health advice in conventional medicine is given to almost all people in different age groups, while the rules of drinking water are different according to the different temperaments of people in traditional medicine.

From the perspective of traditional healers, the best time to eat is when a person is really feeling hungry, which sages call “honest appetite.” So food should not be eaten without stimulating the appetite. Symptoms of anorexia nervosa include: 1. Appetite for food. 2. Pulse weakening. Previous food 9. Thirst quenches: Because when food is in the stomach, it creates thirst, and when food passes through the stomach, the appetite for water disappears. 10. Lightening of the abdomen from under the chest to the navel. So when these symptoms occur, it is a sign of completing the digestion of the previous food and the body’s need for the next food. Food should be stopped when there is still an appetite. Because during digestion, the food becomes porous and bulky and the stomach fills up and the digestive system is unable to digest it, so eating too much food causes indigestion and gastrointestinal side effects. It is necessary to avoid overeating and to give up food despite the appetite remaining. If you overeat, it is better not to eat the next day so that the previous food is well digested and waste products are excreted.

It is better to eat three meals in two days, so that one morning and night, and the next day, at noon. If he eats two meals a day, divide the food into one-third and two-thirds, and Use the first third at the beginning of the day (morning) and the other two thirds at the end of the day (sunset). The nutritional value of the evening meal should be more and its mood should be repelled later. Of course, the habit of the person should be observed in setting the meals, for this reason, Hippocrates said: However, this causes various diseases, depletion of useful substances in the body, loss of physical strength, so special characteristics of people should be considered in setting meals.

The duration of eating should be moderate and the food should be well chewed. Just as eating fast food causes indigestion, eating too long can lead to indigestion.

Persian Medicine

“Persian Medicine” (PM) is among the oldest and richest schools of CAM (complementary alternative medicine). It’s an authentic medical school that considers the world and the human body, a perfect system created by the wise almighty. PM represents a traditional medical school that has delivered remarkable contributions to human civilization.

“Temperament” or  “Mizaj” is called to the quality obtained from the fusion of quadruple-elements (fire, water, air, and soil) and “Dystemperament” or “Su-e-Mizaj” is defined as the overcoming of one of the quadruplet-qualities (warmth, coldness, wetness, and drought). These are the basis of diagnosis and treatment in PM. Compared to common medicine, Persian medicine has a holistic view, examines disease and health through a much broader lens and introduces different strategies for the treatment of diseases like preventive health, food therapy, herbal medicine, hands-on physical manipulations, etc.

PM was taught academic, 1750 years ago, in Jundishapur, the first university in the world which included several hundred thousand books in its library. Enriching years after years, centuries after centuries, scholars like Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Rhazes, Jorjani, Aghili Shirazi, etc, masters of knowledge, wisdom, and experience were introduced to the world in this school. Ibn Sina’s renowned book, Cannon, reached Europe in medieval centuries and was translated into Latin in the late 12th century, and for 500 years was taught in European colleges without any change.

Since 2008, academic Persian medicine, as one of the specialized medical disciplines in Iran, based on practical experience and observations passed down from generation to generation, Relying on authoritative sources, has been pursuing a scientific path in proving the efficacy of the holistic view in the treatment of diseases, by adapting to recent researches. Nowadays these recent studies in traditional, complementary and alternative medicine have provided evidence in favor of the relative success of the holistic view compared with the common medicine Development and promotion of this investigations could be helpful for people all around the world.

Dr Fatemeh Alizadeh Vaghasloo