Avicenna’s Medicine

Mones Abu-Asab, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Hakima Amri, Ph.D., is associate professor of biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology at Georgetown University and cofounder and codirector of Georgetown’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine Graduate Program. Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., is adjunct professor of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the founding director of the Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine in Washington, D.C.

The first contemporary translation of the 1,000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology.

Foreword: In Defense of Medical Tradition by Alain Touwaide Preface Introduction: Why Revisit a Thousand-Year-Old Book? 1 Concepts of Unani Medicine: A Primer First Art Definition of Medicine and Its Topics 2 Topics of Medicine 3 The Unani Elements: The Basics or Origins 4 The Theory of Temperaments 5 The Humors 6 The Organs according to Avicenna 7 A General View of the Faculties and Actions Second Art Disease, Causes, and General Symptoms 8 Diseases 9 Causes 10 Symptoms and Signs Third Art Health, Disease, and the Necessity of Death 11 Introduction to the Third Art 12 Raising Children 13 Common Regimen of Adults 14 Health Management of the Elderly 15 Management of the Dystempered Body 16 Transitions, Seasonal Management, and Travelers Fourth Art Aspects of Treatments according to General Diseases Epilogue Arabic-English Glossary of the Canon Bibliography Index