Current Traditional Medicine - Volume 7, Issue 4, 2021

Introduction: Many environmental risk factors are associated with chronic inflammation. The spread of COVID-19 across the world has impacted every one of us. The first case of coronavirus was reported on 30th January 2020 in India. Study Area: India has a tremendous capacity to deal with the coronavirus outbreak because of its climatic conditions and its people having high immunity . Maintaining social distancing and hand Read More

Introduction: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a chronic disorder. Considering its unknown etiology, the aim of IBS treatment is to control symptoms, and most patients are dissatisfied with current treatments. The World Health Organization (WHO) has emphasized, in its latest announcement in this regard, on the safe and effective use of traditional and complementary medicine in the health structures of count Read More

Background: Momordica balsamina L. is a monoecious climbing vine and perennial herb native to the tropical regions of Asia, Arabia and the Caribbean, and with a prominent presence in Nigeria, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Southern African provinces. While evidence of its anecdotal usage as medicine exists, scientific reports complementing the claims are at their infancy or still emerging. Objective: This re Read More

Cucurbita Argyrosperma (pumpkin) is considered a sacred fruit, as it was mentioned in the Holy Quran. And it was the grace of God Almighty upon his Prophet Yunus, who provided him with a pumpkin tree and the reason for choosing this fruit, the science has proven it after nearly 5,000 years of its mention in the Holy Quran. Scientific research has proven that this tree is rapidly growing and is also rich in carotenoids that act as Read More

Introduction: Persian medicine (PM) is one of the oldest branches of medicine in the world. The purpose of this research was to analyze published articles about PM in the PubMed indexed journals. Methods: Articles indexed in the PubMed database (2015-2019) were searched for keywords “Iranian traditional medicine”, “Iranian medicine”, “Persian traditional medicine” and “Persian medicine”. The data were evaluated for s Read More

Background: Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers is one of the most valuable plants due to its ornamental and pharmacological relevance. It is known for its anti-diabetic activity with proved potent blood sugar-lowering activity. The anti-diabetic activity is due to the presence of its biologically active component, corosolic acid. Moreover, L.speciosa and its novel purified compounds are also well-known for their several biological activiti Read More

Background: Modern lifestyle leads to a greater psychotechnological stress and which results in an increase in autonomic imbalances. This predicts disturbance of the normal mental state and cognition. The current researchers have found clear relationship between yoga practice and parasympathetic dominance. Objective: The purpose of the review study is to analyze the scientific literature related to yoga and auton Read More

Among the health challenges, management of diabetes is very important. This is on account of the decrease in the age of incidence, high prevalence and systemic complications that reduce the quality of life of patients. The age-standardised DALY rate was highest among major non-communicable diseases for diabetes, which is increased in India by 39·6% from 1990 to 2016. Furthermore, conservative management t Read More

A novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) has wreak havoc across the globe, especially in the USA, Italy, Spain, France, Iran, UK, and China. The coronavirus infection has caused a pandemic (COVID-19), which is an acute infectious pneumonia of the 21st Century. 2019-nCov, being novel in nature has brought the world to a standstill and forced a global health emergency, which is attributed to the unavailability of viable antiviral drug, a Read More

In the 21st century, humans are in the battle against a deadly contagious disease COVID-19, first reported in Wuhan, China. Coronavirus disease, designated as COVID-19, is caused by SARS CoV-2 virus from the beta coronavirus family. Although there are no specific anti- viral drugs and vaccines against this pandemic disease, however, many medicines are being repurposed for COVID-19 management but have shown li Read More

Kidney stone formation or Urolithiasis is a common problem that has remained for many centuries with no guarantee of effective treatment and a high recurrence rate. Urolithiasis is the precipitation of insoluble and less soluble salts, such as Oxalate and Phosphate, in the urinary tract, causing obstruction in the urethra resulting in renal colic and hematuria. Approximately 10-12% of the population in industrialized countries is se Read More

The world is facing many issues regarding malnutrition, lack of food security, unavailability of food resources, and famines due to poor crop harvest, scarcity, and high cost of healthy food. To overcome these situations, there is a need for an alternative that can effectively fulfill the requirement of the world population. Wild edible plants (WEPs) are one of them, these plant species are neither managed nor cultivated Read More

The recent times have been difficult with the whole world fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic. A herbal home-based spice can help people improve their immunity and fight against this infection. Nigella sativa has been named as a prophetic spice as it has many therapeutic effects. It is found to control diabetes, reduce high cholesterol levels, and serve as an anti- oxidant, anti-cancer, anti-informatory, and immune boost Read More

COVID-19, a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, is the reason for a global pandemic since the starting of the year 2020. The characteristics of the disease vary from mild common coldlike symptoms to acute respiratory distress syndrome and multi-organ failure leading to death. The world has already observed 213,453 deaths from this disease while 3,095,839 have been infected in 210 countries in total, till 28 April 2020. This di Read More

Background: Propolis is a product of honeybees that contains a variety of different compounds, including caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE). Propolis and its bioactive compounds are widely used in folk medicine and as a dietary supplement. Previously, it has been shown that CAPE has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antiviral, immunomodulatory, and anticancer activities. Objective: This in vitro study was d Read More

Introduction: One of the basic concepts of traditional medicine (TM) is temperament (mizaj), which plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. In TM, depression and hopelessness were assumed to be related to the coldness of temperament. To verify this assumption, the current study was designed to examine the association of depression and hopelessness with the hot/cold status of temperament in f Read More

Aim: Some evidence shows an increased utilization of complementary and alternative medicine for infertility treatment, although little information is available to measure this phenomenon in infertile women. Hence, this study aimed to assess the application of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) techniques on infertile women. Materials and methods: This study was cross-sectional. Infertile women referred to the o Read More

Background: The dark circles under the eyes are a very common and frustrating cosmetic grievance in both males and females, especially among the stress prone population. Due to various reasons, the skin becomes very thin and dry, leading to the visible appearance of veins. This makes the skin appear very dark. Possible causes include excessive pigmentation, thin and luminous lower eyelid, lack of sleep, excessive fatigue, h Read More

Introduction: Elwa (Aloe barbadensis / Aloe vera) is also known as Sibr in Unani medicine, which is dried juice obtained by the inspissations and used to treat many diseases, especially digestive disorders, arthritis, gastric ulcer, jaundice, amenorrhoea, kidney diseases, diseases of spleen and liver, constipation, nervine disorders, wounds, burns, scalds, and other skin diseases. Methods: The aim of this study was to evaluate the neph Read More