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  • Sep 13, 2008, 11:18 PM
    noork
    Traditional arabic medicine
    Hi.I am trying to find any old arabis traditional medicine treatments that can be revived and used in our modern days,can anyone help?
  • Sep 13, 2008, 11:40 PM
    ISneezeFunny
    Medicine in medieval Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Sep 14, 2008, 08:02 AM
    firmbeliever
    Noork,

    Please refer following link for details.
    Islam and Alternative Medicine التداوي بالأعشاب

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  • Sep 15, 2008, 05:15 PM
    frangipanis
    Fascinating links. If you read on and follow a few links, you'll find these:

    Muslim physicians set up the earliest dedicated hospitals in the modern sense, known as Bimaristans, which were establishments where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff, and which were clearly distinguished from the ancient healing temples, sleep temples, hospices, assylums, lazarets and leper-houses which were more concerned with isolating the sick and the mad from society "rather than to offer them any way to a true cure."[11] The Bimaristan hospitals later functioned as the first public hospitals,[12] psychiatric hospitals[13] and diploma-granting medical universities.[14]

    In the medieval Islamic world, hospitals were built in all major cities; in Cairo for example, the Qalawun Hospital could care for 8,000 patients, and a staff that included physicians, pharmacists, and nurses. One could also access a dispensary, and research facility that led to advances, which included the discovery of the contagious nature of diseases, and research into optics and the mechanisms of the eye. Muslim doctors were removing cataracts with hollow needles over 1000 years before Western physicians dared attempt such a task. Hospitals were built not only for the physically sick, but for the mentally sick also. One of the first ever psychiatric hospitals that cared for the mentally ill was built in Cairo. Hospitals later spread to Europe during the Crusades, inspired by the hospitals in the Middle East. The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingts, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the Crusade between 1254-1260.[15]



    Islamic psychology
    Psychology in medieval Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Most ancient and medieval societies believed that mental illness was caused by either demonic possession or as punishment from a god, which led to a negative attitude towards mental illness in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman societies. On the other hand, Islamic ethics and theology held a more sympathetic attitude towards the mentally ill, as exemplified in Sura 4:5 of the Qur'an:[6]

    "Do not give your property which God assigned you to manage to the insane: but feed and cloth the insane with this property and tell splendid words to him."[11]

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