title: Sexual headache from view point of Avicenna and traditional Persian medicine.
abstract: One of the best remaining manuscripts is the "Canon of Medicine" fathered by Avicenna in the Islamic Golden Age [ninth to twelfth century AD]. Considering Avicenna's role in the development of medical science in the Islamic Golden Age, we reviewed Avicenna's point of view on sexual headache based on his famous book "Canon of Medicine". This historical review discusses the clinical approaches applied to diagnose, classify, and treat sexual headache-specifically herbal therapy-from the viewpoint of Avicenna and Traditional Persian Medicine. The accurate observations of Avicenna give a comprehensive classified etiology of the sexual headache. The efficacy of some medicinal herbs used by him for sexual headache treatments, such as the analgesic effect of lavender, chamomile, and jasmine has been proved by current medicine; however, the knowledge of medieval physicians should be scientifically investigated even further to extend new remedial options for sexual headache.
authors: Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.|Essence of Parsiyan Wisdom Institute, Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plant Incubator, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors: Seyed Hamdollah
authors: SH
authors: Mosavat
authors: Department of Traditional Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
authors: Maral
authors: M
authors: Marzban
authors: Department of Traditional Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
authors: Mohsen
authors: M
authors: Bahrami
authors: Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.|Essence of Parsiyan Wisdom Institute, Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plant Incubator, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.|Molecular Dermatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors: Mohammad Mahdi
authors: MM
authors: Parvizi
authors: Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. hajimonfared@yahoo.com.|Essence of Parsiyan Wisdom Institute, Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plant Incubator, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. hajimonfared@yahoo.com.
authors: Mahdie
authors: M
authors: Hajimonfarednejad
mesh_terms: D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D019071:Persia; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history; D008517:Phytotherapy / Q000266:history*; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000266:history*
keywords: Avicenna; Headache; Sexual-related headache; Traditional Persian medicine