Review article
IBN SINA AND THE ROOTS OF THE SEVEN DOCTRINES OF PRESERVATION OF HEALTH
Murad Ahmad Khan
; Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics RAK College of Medical Sciences RAK Medical & Health Sciences University, Ras Al- Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Fauzia Raza
; Department of Medicine RAK Hospital. Post Box 11393, Ras Al- Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Iqbal Akhtar Khan
Abstract
Ibn Sina, the most eminent Muslim physician, illuminative philosopher, great thinker and a versatile genius is regarded as the “Father of Early Modern Medicine” and as the “Father of Clinical Pharmacology”. The “Kitab al-Qanun fi-al-Tibb”, commonly known as the “Canon Medicinae” is the most important of his medical works and, at the same time, the most carefully preserved treasury both in original Arabic and in the initial Latin version. It is the final codification of all Greco-Arabic medical thoughts up to his time, enriched and modified with his own scientific experimentations and independent observations. It is considered “The First Textbook of Medicine on the Earth”. The “Canon” surpassed the books of Hippocrates and Galen and remained supreme for more than six centuries, in the West. Ibn Sina described “Seven Doctrines” for Preservation of Health, based on the Mudawa Salookia, in his magnum opus. The roots of these principles can be traced, to a significant extent, to Egyptian Medicine, Hebrew Medicine, Greek Medicine, Roman Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ancient Persian Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine (Hindu Medicine) and Islamic Medicine.
Keywords
Avicenna; Canon Medicinae; Preservation of Health, Seven Doctrines; History of Medicine; Greco-Arabic Medicine; Mudawa Salookia
Hrčak ID:
153008
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Publication date:
31.12.2015.
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