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Mohammad Khodashenas-Roudsari 1*
1- Ramsar International Campus, Mazandaran University of Medical Science, Ramsar, Iran

Received: 25 May 2022 Accepted: 10 October 2022

Abstract

Background and Aim: Iranian medicine is a school of medicine that emphasizes health maintenance and disease
prevention using material and spiritual techniques inspired by the teachings of Islam and Ahl al-Bayt or household
members of Prophet Muhammad (PBUT). In this paper, the prominent health factors in Iranian Islamic medicine
are enumerated and reviewed. Reviving and applying these recommendations can significantly decrease diseases
and promote health worldwide.
Methods: With reference to authoritative sources of Islamic medicine including the encyclopedia of medical
hadiths (traditions), Helyatol motaghin, and Imam Reza’s (PBUH) treatise, the major topics or themes related to
health are collected and stated along with multiple examples from each field.
Results: Based on Islamic teachings, treatment is not in doing sinful acts, prohibited in the religion; the emphasis
is on prevention and treatment is the next step. The basis of health and recovery is temperament (four humors)
and proper diet and abstinence have a central role. Foods, medicines, mores, conduct, and spiritual factors are
tools for prevention and cure. In other words, health maintenance requires multi-faceted control of body and soul
(including air and climate measures, motion and rest, sleep and wake, foods and drinks, evacuation and retention,
and spiritual interactions).
Conclusion: Iranian medicine is a comprehensive school of medicine. A broad range of material and spiritual
recommendations even in the least important aspects of individual and social life which might seem trivial at first
glance is indicative of the holistic view of this medical school and scarcity of research on these recommendations.
It is recommended that fundamental research be carried out on various components of this medicine so that it
could provide background for the practical revival and wide application of these axioms, taken from the certain
knowledge of the Ahl al-Bayt (PBUT), in the health care and lifestyle system of Iran and the world.

Keywords: Iranian Medicine, Health Factors, Lifestyle.

* Corresponding Author: Mohammad Khodashenas-Roudsari
Address: Ramsar International Campus, Mazandaran University
of Medical Science, Ramsar, Iran.
E-mail: [email protected]

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