Introduction to the Concept of Crisis in Diseases



Darani NS¹ ; Cooper GM² ; Vaghasloo MA¹ Show Affiliations
Source: Traditional and Integrative Medicine Published:2019

Abstract

Crisis is one of the sophis ticated yet important and practical concepts of Persian medicine that have been discussed and pointed out throughout traditional medical literature s tarting from Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna and others or discussed independently in their related treatises. Being so important, it was used to classify the days of illnesses according to days devoted to it (critical days) or the days forecas ting it (warning days) and the days in between. Crisis was known to be an important change in the process of disease through which afterwards the des tiny of the patient was predicted. It was categorized by its completeness/incompleteness and its good/bad prognosis, timing and direction of the pathogenic subs tance displacement or excretion. Many factors have been known to affect the onset and type of crisis including type of illness, the temperament of the patient, the season of disease occurrence, and even the effect of heavenly bodies, especially the tidal force of the moon and the sun. Therefore, many branches of science like chronobiology, physics, nanomechanics, as trophysics and rheology are needed to unders tand and demys tify the narrated information derived from centuries of clinical observation. This unders tanding may lead to the decoding of unknown causes of exacerbation and remission of chronic diseases like multiple sclerosis and so on. As mentioned in previous articles, we have also designed a set of treatments named Safe inclusive nozj of alizadeh therapy (SINA therapy) to simulate good crisis artificially in order to has ten the coction period and facilitate the curing of the daily increasing material diseases. © 2019 Traditional and Integrative Medicine.