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Dietary Modifications in Critically-Ill Patients: A Comparison of Persian Medicine and Conventional Medicine Perspectives Publisher



Zareian MA1 ; Alizadeh Vaghasloo M1, 2, 3 ; Sharifi Darani N1, 2 ; Ansaripour M4, 5 ; Asghari A3, 6, 7 ; Shirbeigi L1 ; Nejatbakhsh F1, 8
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  1. 1. Department of Traditional Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Persian Medicine Network (PMN), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Canadian Association of Persian Medicine, Montreal, Canada
  4. 4. Department of Persian Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
  5. 5. Nutrition and Food Security Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
  6. 6. Association Quebecoise des Therapeutes Naturels, Montreal, QC, Canada
  7. 7. Canadian College of Integrative Medicine, Toronto, Canada
  8. 8. Food Microbiology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Published:2023


Abstract

In Persian Medicine (PM) literature, a crisis is the culmination of the body's response to illness, which necessitates fundamental dietary modification to improve prognosis. In this narrative review, authentic PM textbooks as well as articles on diets for critically-ill patients (CIPs) obtained from PubMed and Google Scholar databases, were reviewed, and after gathering data, they were classified, coded, analyzed, and compared. In the acute phase, both PM and conventional medicine agree on relative food restriction, but PM lays a special focus on the use of meat in cases of weakness. There are both similarities and differences between PM and conventional medicine regarding nutritional recommendations in critical illness. For example, recommendations for food restriction and protein intake are similar in both schools, but recommendations for carbohydrate intake are different. The variables addressed and emphasized in PM require further evaluation in clinical trials. © 2023 Mohammad Ali Zareian et al.
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