طب سنتی و گیاهان دارویی

According to the World Health Organization, traditional medicine is a set of knowledge, skills, and practices based on indigenous theories, beliefs, and experiences of different cultures, whether explicable or not, in health as well as the prevention, diagnosis, improvement, and treatment of physical ailments. And are used mentally.

Traditional medicine is available in many parts of the world, the most popular of which are traditional Chinese medicine, herbal medicine and acupuncture (used in traditional Iranian medicine - temperament), shamanism and Ayurveda (used in traditional Indian medicine). کرد.

There are 750,000 species of medicinal plants in the world, 10% of which have healing properties. Over the past 30 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has put the capacity of traditional and complementary medicine on the agenda alongside modern medicine. This organization intends to develop and promote traditional medicine.

By what is known today as traditional medicine in Iran, we mean the teachings that can be traced back to the third century AH and often to Arabic translations of the works of Hippocrates and Galen.