Author(s)

Majid Avijgan^1*, Firoozeh Salehzadeh¹, Ali Asghar Kamran², Maryam Ansari Chaharsoghi², Kourosh Sahebnazar², Khatereh Akhani², Mahsa Alinaghian², Mohammad Mazaheri³

¹Infectious Diseases Department, Traditional Persian Medicine Department, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
²Resident of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
³Traditional Persian Medicine Department, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Background: Treating infectious diseases (ID) is the priority of health systems. Traditional Persian medicine (TPM) has diagnostic and preventive comments in most diseases. Readout TPM gives opportunity to know the viewpoints of ancient Iranian scholars for using these opinions in treating ID. In this regard returning to TPM options and modalities can be useful at least as complementary method in treating ID. For understanding the concepts of ID in TPM first of all it is needed to trace ID in TPM and translate them into western medicine language which is the goal of this report. Methodology: This research includes 80 ID mentioned in TIBBE-AKBARI (one of Persian Medicine textbook) for rewriting and comparing with conventional medicine findings. Findings: The majority of clinical signs, symptoms and physical examinations of ID are comparable with modern medicine except the viewpoint of TPM about aetiology which is based on Akhlat and Mezaj theory. By considering no option for antibiotic therapy in ancients time so there is a completely different opinion in treating ID with modern medicine. Conclusion: IDs have different names in TPM and conventional medicine. In contrast to modern medicine in which micro-organism are as etiologic agents, Akhlat and Mezaj theory of TPM has main role for description of ID, the subject which must to be decoded. Although they have completely different opinions in treatment, but with regard to the increasing of antibiotic resistance issue, TPM treatment comments may be useful in future in ID as complementary method beside antibiotics.

Akhlat/Mezaj Theory, Antibiotic, Infectious Diseases, Herbal Medicine, Traditional Persian Medicine, TIBBE-AKBARI

Avijgan, M. , Salehzadeh, F. , Kamran, A. , Chaharsoghi, M. , Sahebnazar, K. , Akhani, K. , Alinaghian, M. and Mazaheri, M. (2017) Conceptual Comparison of Infectious Diseases of TIBBE-AKBARI and Modern Medicine: Akhlat and Mezaj Theory. Advances in Infectious Diseases, 7, 1-10. doi: 10.4236/aid.2017.71001.