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Acta medico-historica Adriatica : AMHA, Vol. 12 No. 1, 2014.

Preliminary communication

AVICENNA’S DOCTRINE ABOUT ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION

Majid Emtiazy ; The research center of the Iranian Traditional Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Rasool Choopani ; Department of Traditional Medicine, The School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mahmood Khodadoost ; Department of Traditional Medicine, The School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mojgan Tansaz ; Department of Traditional Medicine, The School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Sohrab Dehghan ; Department of Traditional Medicine, The School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Zeinab Ghahremani ; Zanjan University of Medical Science, Zanjan, Iran.

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Abstract

Arterial hypertension is a major risk factor for the development of cardiovascular diseases. Data from observational studies indicate that it may affect 90% of the general population during their lifetime. Despite much research that has been done, the exact cause of this disorder is still unknown. Avicenna (Ibn Sina) in his masterpiece The Canon of Medicine described most of the clinical features, causes, and complications which are consistent with hypertension symptoms based on modern medicine. He described in detail the symptoms of hypertension such as headache, heaviness in the head, sluggish movements, general redness and warm to touch feel of the body, prominent, distended and tense veins, fullness of the pulse, distension of the skin, coloured and dense urine, loss of appetite, weak eye sight, impairment of thinking, yawning, and drowsiness. Moreover, Avicenna described haemorrhage and sudden death as the complications of hypertension. Due to the importance of this issue, we wanted to call the reader’s attention to Avicenna’s views about what corresponds to hypertension in modern medicine.

Keywords

Avicenna; arterial hypertension; Iranian traditional medicine; black bile

Hrčak ID:

125167

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/125167

Publication date:

15.6.2014.

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