Study and clarification (explanation) of urinary bladder disease in (based on) principles of Iranian traditional medicine and presenting clinical evidence

Abstract

Introduction: bladder is one of the most important organs in human’s body that little attention has been paid to it. But in Persian traditional medicine, this organ has been enormously noticed. Also, this organ considered as one of the pathogentic factors. Bladder itself can not only be cause of diseases but aslo affected by another organs and the mentioned disease conditions. Significant sometimes different opposed cures could be suggested Methods: this is a qualitative study in which related materials about diseases of bladder extracted and studied from principal books of Persian Traditional Medicine (PTM) then materials classified through Fish graph software, and finally they were studied and analyzed. Findings: in present study there are more than sixty four cases and some cases are related to bladder. Furthermore, in the aferside manuscripts bladder’s common diseases and different kinds of medicament used in bladder’s diseases were extracted and stated. Not only symptoms and causes of diseases mentioned here, but also their curing method and organs related with bladder’s diseases mothed in this study. Also the patients prone to diseases related with bladder and its hygiene as well as nutritional and health strategies were provided here inorder to prevent of bladder diseases. Results: findings showed that bladder plays an important role in prevention of most of diseases and body problems, and these findings used in traditional medicine, bladder and the disorders of bladder have an important role in body, and it could be claimed that diseases such as leg spasm, arthritis and spinal cord spasm specially neck and backe, epilepsy, and different kinds of headaches are related to baldder that more studies should be conducted in this field.