Gastric Diseases Semiology in Iranian Traditional Medicine (Itm)



Borhani M¹ ; Khoshzaban F² ; Jodeiri B³ ; Naseri M² ; Mazaheri M⁴ ; Babaiyan M¹ ; Reza Haji Heydari M¹ ; Elsagh M⁵ ; Yavari M⁴ ; Kamali MA⁴ ; Reza Sharifi Alvan Abadi A¹ ; Adibi P⁶ ; Ghannadi A⁷ ; Avijgan M⁸ Show All Authors Show Affiliations
Source: Advances in Environmental Biology Published:2014

Abstract

In the Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM), several symptoms have been mentioned under the topic of gastric diseases, which shows the special attention of the ITM physicians to semiology. Symptoms such as color, smell and stool uniformity; the sound of gas passing and severity of its smell; thirst intensity and satisfaction of warm or cold water drinking; color and characteristics of the tongue; belching and its types; desire for particular types of foods, and amount and type of saliva, have been surveyed in ITM semiology, but there is a little information about them in modern gastrointestinal (GI) semiology. The preciseness of physicians such as Avicenna in history taking and physical examination of patients could be used to improve the method of history taking in modern medicine. It seems that some items that received attention in the ITM were eliminated from the medical knowledge in an unknown era of history. As a result, the natural trend of science evolution, which includes the knowledge upgrade and modification, of a generation by the next generation, was not passed. In this respect, further experimental studies are required to review the major ITM textbooks, and to determine the changes occurred in the gastric signs and symptoms in them, compared with those mentioned in the modern GI semiology. In the next step, analysis of pathophysiologic basis of the existing differences in clinical studies would be helpful. Furthermore, some comparison between these topics in the ITM and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) were addressed in this paper. © 2014 AENSI Publisher All rights reserved.