Traditional medicine
Mohammad Azad Manjiri; Roshanak Salari; Amir Abbas Asadpour; mahdi yousefi; Jamshid Jamali; Seyed Majid Ghazanfari; Mohammad Reza Ahmadpour
Volume 30, Issue 5 , November and December 2023, , Pages 619-631
Abstract
Background: Kidney stones are one of the most common urological diseases. Renal colic is a medical emergency due to severe pain, and the repetition of its periods greatly impacts the patient's life quality. Providing different treatments while increasing the patient's life expectancy causes changes in ...
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Background: Kidney stones are one of the most common urological diseases. Renal colic is a medical emergency due to severe pain, and the repetition of its periods greatly impacts the patient's life quality. Providing different treatments while increasing the patient's life expectancy causes changes in their lifestyle, health status, and life quality. This study aimed to evaluate the life quality of patients with kidney stones in Mashhad in 2019 with a review of Persian medicine.Materials and Methods: The present descriptive-analytical study was performed on 96 patients. Data were collected by SF-36 quality of life questionnaire, researcher-made demographic questionnaire, and the Salmannejad temperament determination questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using SPSS-16 software.Results: The mean age of patients was 45.6 years; the mean number of stones was 18.1± 84.1 and the mean size of stones was 12.32 ± 8.53 mm. The mean and standard deviation of patients' life quality was 369.26±98.32. The highest mean was related to the physical function dimension (82.68 ± 21.8) and the lowest mean was related to the pain dimension (52.23 ± 25.47). There was a statistically significant relationship between some dimensions of life quality with blood pressure and temperament (Mizaj) variables (p <0.05).Conclusion: Several factors improve the life quality of patients with kidney stones. Paying special attention to the characteristics of patients with kidney stones and modifying the type of nutrition based on their temperament can prevent the recurrence and re-formation of kidney stones.
Traditional medicine
Ali Rezaei; mahdi yousefi; Jamshid jamali; Abdollah Saeedi Nik; Mohammad Reza Mehri; Seyed Majid Ghazanfari
Volume 30, Issue 3 , September and October 2023, , Pages 336-348
Abstract
Introduction: Wet cupping is one of the therapeutic or preventive bloodletting methods with a long history that is recommended during certain times in Persian Medicine sources, but there is no recommendation regarding the amount of blood flow. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of time ...
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Introduction: Wet cupping is one of the therapeutic or preventive bloodletting methods with a long history that is recommended during certain times in Persian Medicine sources, but there is no recommendation regarding the amount of blood flow. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of time and circumstances of the applicants on the amount of removed blood.
Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, by easy sampling method with 739 participations of men who referred to a fixed center for wet cupping in Saveh city in 2022. The data was collected using an Information gathering form, and analyzed by SPSS-16.
Results: Totally 739 men were referred. The average age was 34.91 years, height 174.92 cm, weight 80.32 kg and body mass index (BMI) was 26.25. The mean amount of blood excreted during cupping was 89.04 g. The amount of exited blood during cupping had a positive correlation with day and lunar month as well as age, height, weight, BMI, history of cupping, and the number of previous cupping records, and the statistical difference was significant (P <0.001) but the based on its doing time (day of the week and solar month) was not significant (P> 0.05).
Conclusion: The amount of excreted blood during cupping has a statistically significant relationship with age, height, weight, BMI, previous cupping history, and time of cupping.
Traditional medicine
Mohammad Nematshahi; Tahura Afshari Saleh,; Mahbube Nemat Shahi; Fereshteh Ghorat; atefeh asadi
Volume 30, Issue 2 , July and August 2023, , Pages 233-243
Abstract
Introduction: Coronaviruses are a subset of coronaviruses that range from the common cold to more severe illnesses. Symptoms of COVID19 begin a few days after becoming infected with the virus, including fever, dry cough, respiratory distress, fatigue, muscle aches, and diarrhea. Given that the virus ...
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Introduction: Coronaviruses are a subset of coronaviruses that range from the common cold to more severe illnesses. Symptoms of COVID19 begin a few days after becoming infected with the virus, including fever, dry cough, respiratory distress, fatigue, muscle aches, and diarrhea. Given that the virus causes severe symptoms in some patients, even without the underlying disease, it is likely to be related to the individual characteristics of the patients. Therefore, it seems necessary to study internal characteristics such as blood type, temperament or even the genes of patients.Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study in 2020. A total of 100 people were selected from those who had respiratory symptoms and had a positive QQ 19 test. Mood questionnaire was completed for each person. 3 cc of venous blood was taken from patients to evaluate blood group.Results: In the study of the relationship between sex and disease severity, 42.2% of men were admitted to the ward and 38.9% of women were mostly examined on an outpatient basis, but this difference was not significant.Compared with blood groups, O-negative blood group had the lowest and A-positive blood group had the highest prevalence. In terms of prevalence of wet and dry temperaments, 29.6% had wet temperament, 43.2% had moderate temperament and 27.2% had dry temperament. Also, in the study of cold and hot temperament, 21% had a cold temperament, 49.4% had a balanced temperament and 29.6% had a warm temperament. There was no significant relationship between cold temperament and disease severity between the three temperament groups. P = 0.21)). Also, there was no significant relationship between wet and dry temperament and disease severity between the 3 groups (P = 0.09).Conclusion: According to this study, the prevalence of covid19 disease in warm chord temperaments was higher than other blood clusters. Blood group O was less common than other blood groups, which could be helpful in the prognosis of patients.
Traditional medicine
Fatemeh Kiumarsi; Ali Reza Derakhshan
Volume 29, Issue 5 , November and December 2022, , Pages 697-718
Abstract
Introduction: In Persian medicine, fumitory has been used in the treatment of many diseases, especially gastrointestinal disorders. On the other hand, among the studies that have been done on the plants of Fumaria species, the gastrointestinal and hepatic effects have been considered by researchers. ...
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Introduction: In Persian medicine, fumitory has been used in the treatment of many diseases, especially gastrointestinal disorders. On the other hand, among the studies that have been done on the plants of Fumaria species, the gastrointestinal and hepatic effects have been considered by researchers. The purpose of this study is to review the comparative therapeutic effects of fumitory in Persian medicine and modern medical studies.
Materials and Methods: First, the uses of fumitory were extracted, studied and categorized from the reference books of Persian medicine, including: Qanoon, Al-Havi, Makhzan al-Adviyah, Qarabadin Kabir, Tahfa al-Momenin, and Riyaz al-Adviyah. Then, the related articles were searched in PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, Google scholar, Magiran and SID databases. Finally, a comparative study of the applications of this plant in conventional medicine and Persian medicine was performed.
Results: This plant has been used in Persian medicine as a gastric and hepatic tonic and an opener of obstructions of the liver and spleen. Other functions include blood purifying, laxative, appetizing, and cleansing effects on the gastrointestinal tract. Today, in basic and clinical studies on plants of the genus fumaria, the hepatoprotective effect, reducing effects of liver enzymes, anti-inflammatory effect in hepatic disorders, antidiarrheal effects, reducing effect of inflammatory factors in digestive disorders, and ameliorative effect on irritable bowel syndrome have been proven.
Conclusion: According to the Persian medicine literatures and modern medicine studies, Fumaria species can have therapeutic potential in some gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders.
Traditional medicine
bahareh amin; LEILA aldaghi; hamideh moalemzadeh; fatemeh soltani
Volume 28, Issue 2 , May and June 2021, , Pages 207-213
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Introduction: Breast cancer is the second common cancer in women at worldwide. Furthermore, patients with breast cancer generally use complementary and integrative medicine such as homeopathy. It has been shown that homeopathic remedies such as Sepia, Phosphorus and Pulsatilla have great effects ...
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Introduction: Breast cancer is the second common cancer in women at worldwide. Furthermore, patients with breast cancer generally use complementary and integrative medicine such as homeopathy. It has been shown that homeopathic remedies such as Sepia, Phosphorus and Pulsatilla have great effects in the various diseases such as some of the cancers. However, the cytotoxicity effects of these compounds have not been studied for breast cancer cell lines such asMCF-7. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate the cytotoxic effects of these homeopathic remedies on breast cancer cell line. Materials & Methods: Breast cancer cells (MCF-7) were cultured in DMEM medium and treated with different potencies (30 and 200) of remedies for 24, 48 and 72 h. Cell viability was determined by MTT assay. Results: The findings indicate that none of the tested compounds had cytotoxicity effect on MCF-7 cancer cells. Conclusion: This study shows that Sepia, Phosphorus and Pulsatilla as the three of homeopathic remedies have not in vitro cytotoxic effects on breast cancer cell line, and it seems that further studies on different cell lines and also in vivo studies are needed to confirm these findings.
Traditional medicine
mohammadreza khosrojerdy; Alimohmmah Naemi; morteza mojahedi
Volume 27, Issue 6 , January and February 2021, , Pages 736-742
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Introduction: Temperamentology is a branch of traditional Iranian medicine that scientists from this field have hypothesized in different periods of time in different areas of medicine,One of these areas is addiction.The purpose of this study was to compare the mizaj(temerament) in addicted and healthy ...
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Introduction: Temperamentology is a branch of traditional Iranian medicine that scientists from this field have hypothesized in different periods of time in different areas of medicine,One of these areas is addiction.The purpose of this study was to compare the mizaj(temerament) in addicted and healthy subjects in Sabzevar city. Materials and Methods: A randomized stratified sampling in two groups healthy and addicted in sabzevar city. Mojahidi's standard questionnaire mizaj was used for collecting data. collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 22 software. Results: Because of the significance level of the hypotheses greater than 0.05 and the value of T less than 1.96, it can be said that there was no significant difference between the components of warmth, moderation, coldness in the two groups, and between the components of the wetness, moderation ,dryness also There was no significant difference. In general, According to the studies there was no significant difference between the temperament of addicted and healthy people. Conclusion: In the general review of the questionnaire, there was no statistically significant difference between the mizaj of addicted and non-addicted subjects. In a one-by-one questions of questionnaire review, obesity and more moisture, small palms and more feeling cold of addicted people were significantly more than non-addict subjects.
Traditional medicine
ali mohammad izadpanah; mahdi hadavi; hamid reza bahrami taghanaki
Volume 25, Issue 4 , September and October 2018, , Pages 581-590
Abstract
Background Fatigue is a common symptom in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Reflexology is a nursing intervention that could reduce fatigue. This study aimed at determining the effects of foot reflexology on fatigue in patients undergoing hemodialysis.Materials and methods:A clinical trial was conducted ...
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Background Fatigue is a common symptom in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Reflexology is a nursing intervention that could reduce fatigue. This study aimed at determining the effects of foot reflexology on fatigue in patients undergoing hemodialysis.Materials and methods:A clinical trial was conducted in hemodialysis patients attending shaikh hadi hadavi & vali asr hospital in birjand.Using randomized sampling70patients were allocated into two groups:intervention & control group.patients in intervention group received foot reflexology and control group received only routine care. FS Scale was used to measure fatigue level before, immediately after,and one week after the intervention. Data was analyzed with SPSS 21software,Repeated measures variances,inependent t-test and bonferroni test.statistical significant levels set at p
Traditional medicine
tahmineh esfandiari sabzevar; maryam tatari; Habibullah Farokhi
Volume 25, Issue 3 , July and August 2018, , Pages 353-361
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Backgrounds Quinoa (Quino Chenopodium.Willd ) is attended due to its high nutritional value recently. Nutrients of Quinoa including amino acids ,antioxidant compounds ,essential fatty acids, minerals and vitamins led to research on the characteristics of this plant. ...
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Backgrounds Quinoa (Quino Chenopodium.Willd ) is attended due to its high nutritional value recently. Nutrients of Quinoa including amino acids ,antioxidant compounds ,essential fatty acids, minerals and vitamins led to research on the characteristics of this plant. While few studies have been done in Iran on characteristics of Quinoa.Materials and Methods To assess the nutraceutical potential of quinoa, the antioxidant capacity of quinoa leaves and seeds was investigated. The antioxidant activity against DPPH radicals is highly depends on the phenolic content of samples. In this research, using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), the ingredients of seed and leaf extracts were separated and identified. In addition, its antioxidant properties were measured by the evaluation of DPPH free radical scavenging and were used to measure the content of phenolic compounds by Follin-Ciocalteu method.Results Total phenol content in the seeds and leaves extract of quinoa, 54.4 and 76.3 (mg gallic acid per gram of extract) respectively and flavonoids in extracts of quinoa seeds and leaves 26.3 and 36.7 (mg quercetin per gram of extract) respectively were obtained. Analysis of variance showed that the concentration of synthetic antioxidant have significant effect on DPPH free radical scavenging (P
Traditional medicine
Hamid Momeni; Hajar Sadeghi; Ashraf Salehi
Volume 25, Issue 2 , May and June 2018, , Pages 185-194
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Comparison of Matricariachamomilla oil, Trachyspermumcopticum oil and Clonidine on Withdrawal syndrome in Narcotics Anonymous Abstract: Introduction: Study aimed to compare the effects of chamomile oil , oil copticum and clonidine withdrawal syndrome NA groups was performed . Method and Materials: This ...
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Comparison of Matricariachamomilla oil, Trachyspermumcopticum oil and Clonidine on Withdrawal syndrome in Narcotics Anonymous Abstract: Introduction: Study aimed to compare the effects of chamomile oil , oil copticum and clonidine withdrawal syndrome NA groups was performed . Method and Materials: This study is a Double-blind one stage clinical trial with the comparison group. The sample consisted of 135 patients who were randomly NA groups in thecontrol and intervention groups (two groups) were placed. In intervention groups1, chamomile oil, in the intervention group2, oil copticum common and in control group treated with clonidine withdrawal is received. COW's symptoms questionnaire was recorded in6steps, and the results were analyzed using SPSS software. Results: Baseline mean and standard deviation of withdrawal syndrome in the group of Matricariachamomilla oil, Trachyspermumcopticum oil and Clonidine respectively (241/7 ± 15/24), (845/8 ± 52/26) and (469/7 ± 03/23) and after the intervention (442/7 ± 11/12), (452/8 ± 42/11) and (775/7 ± 51/8), respectively. ANOVA test showed that the three groups before the intervention (p=0/32) and after (p= 0/70) no significant difference in the degree of addiction syndrome. Conclusion: Vegetable oil on the impact of the withdrawal syndrome More studies are needed. Keywords: Matricariachamomilla oil, Trachyspermumcopticum oil, Clonidin withdrawal syndrome, Narcotics Anonymous