The Traditional Healer's Handbook: A Classic Guide to the Medicine of AvicennaInner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1991 - 416 sayfa This comprehensive guide to healing synthesizes the principles and practices of Hippocratic, Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Persian medicine, and includes the first English translation of one of the handbooks of Avicenna, whose writings have been classics in herbal and dietetic medicine for more than 1,000 years. Based on the philosophy that "food is the best medicine," Avicenna's canon provides simple and effective diagnostic techniques and therapies for maintaining health and strengthening the immune system. Includes a botanical guide for the 100 most-used healing herbs and recommended treatments for 400 conditions, including diet and nutrition, herbology, and aromatherapy. |
İçindekiler
The Origins and Development of Unani Tibb | 11 |
The Doctrine of the Naturals | 21 |
The Tibb Profile Six Factors | 31 |
Dietetics The Influence of Food and Drink | 41 |
Foods for Health | 53 |
Signs of Health and Disease | 73 |
Of Fire and Light Fever and Pain | 88 |
The Cycle Completed Elimination | 97 |
The Mouth | 219 |
The Chest and Lungs | 228 |
The Heart | 237 |
The Stomach | 243 |
The Liver | 251 |
The Spleen and Gallbladder | 257 |
The Intestines | 261 |
The Anus | 266 |
Restoring the Balance | 108 |
Detoxification and the Healing Crisis | 119 |
Case Histories | 129 |
The Formulary | 155 |
Principles of Herbal Therapeutics | 157 |
Compound Herbal Formulas | 160 |
Directions for Herbal Preparations | 162 |
Dosages | 166 |
Methods Without Ingestion | 168 |
Adjusting the Four Humors | 171 |
How to Use the Formulary | 175 |
The WellBeing of Children | 179 |
The Head | 193 |
The Eye | 202 |
The Ear | 212 |
The Nose | 216 |
The Kidneys | 268 |
The Urinary Bladder | 271 |
The Male Reproductive System | 276 |
The Female Reproductive System | 285 |
The Back Legs and Feet | 294 |
Hair and Nails | 299 |
Boils Swellings Infections and Aches | 302 |
Miscellaneous | 310 |
Materia Medica | 317 |
TABLE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES | 369 |
THERAPEUTIC ACTION OF BOTANICALS | 370 |
DIGESTION TIME OF FOODS | 373 |
SOURCES OF UNANI TIBB HERBS | 375 |
Bibliography | 376 |
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Sık kullanılan terimler ve kelime öbekleri
½ teaspoon aloeswood apply cupping astringent Avicenna black bile black bile humor bladder blood humor body boils bowels breath cancer cause chapatis chest chickory color Common Names constipation cooked coriander coughing cups water decoction detoxification diarrhea diet digestion disease diuretic drink dry in second dry in third eating effect elimination emmenagogue enema excess eyes fever flatulence foods garam masala gargle Habitat Hakim healing heart heat herbal herbs honey Hot and dry imbalance innate heat intemperament intestine juice kidneys laxative liver medicine metabolic mixed moisture olive oil organs ounce oxymel pain patient pepper person phlegm phlegm humor physician pomade Properties pulse purgative Quality recommended remedy rice ripen rose oil rose water salve second degree seeds signs skin spleen stimulant stomach substances sugar swelling symptoms tablespoon teaspoon teaspoon salt temperature testicles Tibb Name Tibb system treatment ulcer Unani urine vinegar vomiting warm weakness yellow bile
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Avicenna (Ibn Sina): Muslim Physician and Philosopher of the Eleventh Century Aisha Khan Sınırlı önizleme - 2006 |