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Volume 5 lists more than 800 pharmacologically tested simple and complex drugs, including plant and mineral substances, with a thorough description of their application and effectiveness. For each one, he described their pharmaceutical actions from a range of twenty-two to thirty possibilities, including resolution, astringency and softening, and their specific properties according to a grid of eleven types of pathological conditions, diseases. This volume not only contains an index of the contents based on healing properties of the 800 natural pharmaceuticals, but in addition a comprehensive 400 page index of all five volumes based on the names of the natural healers and what they heal.
Vol. 2: Published for the first time in English alphabetical order, vol. 2 (of the 5 original volumes) of "Canon of Medicine" (Law of Natural Healing), is an essential addition to the history of medicine as it holds a treasure of information on natural pharmaceuticals used for over 1000 years to heal various diseases and disorders. Fully color illustrated with a 150 page, 7000 word index of the healing properties of each of the entries, the text itself is an alphabetical listing of the natural pharmaceuticals of the simple compounds. By simple compounds, Avicenna includes the individual plants, herbs, animals and minerals that have healing properties. Avicenna lists 800 tested natural pharmaceuticals including plant, animal and mineral substances. The compiler has included the Latin, Persian and Arabic names of the drugs along with artistic renderings of the drugs as illustrations as well as Avicenna's Tables or Grid for each entry that describes the individual, specific qualities of simple drugs.
As one reads this book, he or she will be amazed how little the prescription for healthy living has changed from 1000 years ago, particularly in regard to childbirth and infancy. Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 11, describes childbirth and infancy. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.
Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 3, explains what a balanced and imbalanced temperament are in terms of cold and dry, cold and wet, hot and dry and hot and wet. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.
After distinguishing between a sign and a symptom, Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 7, describes the various states of the human body and types of illnesses and injuries. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.
Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 8, describes the causes of illness including unavoidable causes such as environmental changes, natural mutations, incidental mutations, sleep and wakefulness and the influence of psychological or emotional factors as well as many other considerations. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.