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Herbal Medicine for Cardiovascular Disease in View of Avicenna Publisher



Taghipour Z1 ; Abadi MHH2
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  1. 1. Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Persian Medicine, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Source: Medicinal Plants used in Traditional Persian Medicine Published:2023


Abstract

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a spectrum of diseases afecting the heart and blood vessels and is the first cause of death worldwide. The epidemiology of CVD demonstrates a transition, driven by industrialization, urbanization, and associated lifestyle changes, and is taking place in every part of the world among all races, ethnic groups, and cultures. In the present stage, coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, congestive heart failure, and peripheral vascular disease are the most common CVDs. However, CVDs have historically occurred in the form of rheumatic heart disease and cardiomyopathies due to infection and malnutrition. Avicenna made a great contribution to the feld of cardiology and many of the current well-known concepts can be traced back to his views. He was the first scientist who established cardiology in the early Middle Ages, thus initiating the enormous progress of cardiological sciences up to the present day. Besides nutritional recommendations and specifc manipulations (e.g., venesection, hijmat, laxation) to prevent and manage heart diseases, a lot of cardioactive drugs of herbal, animal, and mineral origins are explained by Avicenna to treat diferent heart diseases. In addition, he specifcally mentioned 83 simple cardioactive drugs of which 50 are medicinal herbs. In this chapter the medicinal plants used by Avicenna to treat CVDs and new related research studies are presented. © CAB International 2023.
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