Avicenna’s Views and Modern Medicine: Revisiting Translation and Bridging the Gaps

This concise mini-book reexamines Avicenna’s practical insights and relates them to modern medical sciences. It highlights his observations on bloating and flatulence, his frequency (portion) diet concept for the elderly, and his explanations of neuropathies, temperament, and disease causes of illness. Avicenna’s tailored food recommendations for lean versus obese elders, his ideas on “warming” drugs and types of bodily fluids, including phlegm types, and his insights on overcoming fear of death are all covered in this book.

This book focuses on the important questions, including:

• What factors empower body energy?
• What distinguishes a symptom from a disease cause, and how does Avicenna define medicine and health?
• How can frequency (portion) diets benefit geriatric health?
• Why should diets differ for lean and obese people, particularly for the elderly?
• What causes bloating or flatulence in Avicenna's views and modern sciences?
• How do Avicenna’s temperament and humoralism concepts map to modern medical sciences, including genomics?
• Why does the overlap between conventional and modern medicine need reinterpretation?
• How can Avicenna’s philosophy help to reduce the fear of death?
• How does Avicenna's wisdom correlate with modern emerging sciences, including genomics and glycobiology concepts?

The author integrates concepts and shares simple, practical insights, tools, personal experiences, and demonstrative ideas to elaborate on personalized health improvement through Avicenna’s philosophy and contemporary science.

Keywords: Avicenna’s Views, Aging, Anxiety, Canon of Medicine, Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, Cupping, Disease Causing Factors, Death, Fasting, Fear, Flatulence, Fragrance, Geriatric Food, Healthy Personalized Food, Hereditary Genetics, Humorism, Infantile Body, Massage, Modern Medicine, Neuropathies, Obesity, Personalized Temperament, Phlegm, Powerful Healing, Purgation, Regimenal Therapies, Soul.

Publisher - Dr. Muhammad Ramzan Manwar

Language - English

Paperback

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Dr. Muhammad Ramzan Manwar

Published Date - February 22 2024

ISBN - 9781738513444

Dimensions - 23.5 x 19.1 x 0.6 cm

Page Count - 80