Complementary Medicine Journal
Year:2016 | Volume:6 | Issue:1 (18)|Papers Count:8

Introduction: According to opinion of the scientists of Iranian traditional medicine, hemorrhoid is anal lump that is created on the vessels and its factor is soda humor. Treatment of this disease in Iranian traditional medicine is to clear excess soda humor from the body and prevent its formation through modifying the organs involved in its production and finally remove soda humor from the anal vessels.Case report: Patient is a 69-year-old man with basic tempered of phlegm and yellow bile that had external 6 Pack Level 4 hemorrhoids without bleeding. According to Iranian traditional medicine classification, hemorrhoid was from palm group. The patient was completely cured during the three sessions of 6 weeks. Medical interventions such as soda reducing diet, vasoconstrictors (hemorrhoid constricting) agents, hepatic clearance and laxatives were used. Also, hirudotheraphy was used for removing soda from the side of anal.Discussion: With the expansion of education and research in the field of Iranian traditional medicine therapies can be developed based on traditional medicine, effective, non-invasive and low cost according to individual patient basis (based on the patient’s tempered which is important in the quality of life. Therefore, it is necessary to do more researches to consider measures and treatments based on Iranian traditional medicine in order the scientific evidences continue to grow.

Introduction: Pray and mention as two separate methods are spiritual care. This study was designed to compare two methods of prayer and mentioning on life expectancy in patient hospitalization in CCU Ward Social Security Golestan Hospitals in 1393.Method: The following experimental study was performed on 90 patient hospitalization in Khatam Al Anbia Hospital which were divided into prayer groups (n=30), mentioning (n=30) and control group (n=30). Intervention was performed in Prayer and mentioning group in 4 days and 2nd a day in 15 min, then the three groups were compared to each other. The questionnaire was Synder Life Expectancy Scale. Results were analyzed statistically by SPSS16.Results: Results after the test, showed life expectancy in prayer) were (34.2 ± 35.37) and mentioned group (15.2 ± 3.3). Statistical analysis showed a significant difference between three groups, the greatest life expectancy was found in the mentioning group (P=0.001). Tukey test’s showed the difference between praying with the control group was (P=0.039) and the controls (P=0.00) showed.Conclusion: It seems that the spiritual experience along with other therapies would be effective and according to the guidelines it might be defined in the treatment of religious and spiritual care.

Introduction: Burning is one of the most important causes of the fall in the world’s life and death quality. This study has been done aiming the analysis of the effect of group hope therapy (Snyder`s group hope therapy together with hope in Islam) on life quality of the burnt patients.Methods: The survey was clinical trial that has been done based on the convenient sampling method. Samples were selected among sever burn-patients(25-60%) who referred Emam Mousa Kazem Hospital(2015) .After getting the consent, the participators were categorized into experimental and control groups with 25 in each group. The experimental group received the program in 8 sessions-2 hours and the control group received routine interventions .The demographic checklist and a unique questionnaire of life quality of burn patients (Burn Specific Health Scale) which had been used before, right after, and one month after the remedial intervention were collected, and analyzed by the use of SPSS software, Version 16. Chi-Square statistical tests, covariance analysis and T- test.Result: As the redults show, before the intervention, there was not any significant difference between the mean score of the life quality between two groups (p= 0.37). Right after the intervention (P<0.001) and also one month after the intervention in experimental group (179 ± 9.5) is significantly more than the control group (15 ± 14.4). Also testing the frequent variance analysis show that its effectiveness stayed the same after a month, so there was no significant statistical difference between “right after” and “a month after” the intervention (p=0.38).Conclusion: Hope-therapy program can cause improving the life quality of for burn patients and other ones affected to the chronic diseases.

Introduction: Nurses are at risk of depression due to the nature of their work environment. This study was conducted to determine the effect of Licorice on depressive symptoms in nurses, regarding the importance of the role of nurses in the health care system.Methods: This study is a triple blind placebo controlled clinical trial, in that initially, 72 eligible persons working in internal & surgical wards of teaching hospitals of Arak, were selected using convenience sampling. After obtaining written consent from them, they were put randomly in one of the intervention and control groups. Subjects of the intervention group received 380mg D-reglis tablets and subjects in the control group received placebo which looks like D-reglis (3 tablets for 4 weeks). After intervention, subjects again completed the Beck Depression Inventory and data were analyzed using paired t-test, independent T-test and Chi-square tests.Results: The mean depression score of nurses in the experimental group before taking the drug was 19.22±7.686 that changed to 13.10±7.757after the intervention. Also the mean of this index in the control group was 20.5±7.507 before the intervention and 19.72±7.456after the intervention. There was significant difference between the mean of depression in the intervention group before and after the intervention (p=.001). In the control group, there was not any significant difference (p=.079). Furthermore, there was a significant difference between the mean score of depression in intervention and control groups after the intervention (p=.001).Conclusion: According to the results, it seems that this drug can be used to reduce the depressive symptoms.

Introduction: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is among the common endocrine women disorders that can create manifestations such as anxiety and depression. In this study, the effect of aerobic training on mental health and depression among Iranian women suffering from PCOS has been examined.Methods: This semi experimental study was carried out based on pre-test and post-test on experiment and control groups in Arak, Iran. Twenty-two women with polycystic ovary syndrome (aged 27.82 ±5.23 yr) were selected and randomly divided to training (n=12) and control (n=10) groups. Aerobic training program was performed 25-40 min/d, 3d/wk, for 10 weeks. Mental health and depression were evaluated using a general health questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28) and a Beck depression inventory (BAI-II) in the two groups before and after the study.Results: The 10 week aerobic training had a significant effect on mental health, subscales of physical symptoms, anxiety and depression (p<0.05). However, no significant effect on subscales of social functioning was observed (p>0.05).Conclusion: The result of present study suggests that aerobic exercise can improve the mental disorders in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Introduction: The studies on animal models have shown positive effects of Kelussia odoratissima on different health problem cases including digestive disorders. However, there has been no research on the effectiveness of Kelussia odoratissima on peptic ulcers in humans. In this study, “the effect of Kelussia odoratissima on the rate of improvement in patients with peptic ulcer” has been investigated.Methods: The present study was a Randomized clinical trial which is done in March- September, 2015 in Amir Al-Momenin Hospital in Arak, Iran. The subjects were 60 patients with peptic ulcer, selected by simple random sampling and acquiring their informed consents. After taking written informed consent, they were divided into two groups randomly: the control group (administering prescribed medicines) and the intervention group (administering medicines along with Kelussia odoratissima powder). One month after intervention, the types of peptic ulcers were determined by follow-up endoscopy. Finally, the data was analyzed using SPSS v. 16 and statistical independent samples t-test and Fisher’s exact test.Results: The two groups were homogenous in terms of demographic features. The findings showed that the groups were not significantly different regarding the type of peptic ulcers (p= 0.91) before intervention; but one month after intervention, the highest frequency in the control group was related to the ulcers Type II and III, and the lowest frequency to the ulcers Type I, while the highest frequency in the intervention group was related to the ulcers Type I and the lowest frequency to the ulcers Type III and higher. Accordingly, Fisher’s exact test showed a significant difference between the two groups (p=0.008).Conclusion: Given the results of the present study, it seems that administering Kelussia odoratissima powder along with the medicines effective for treating stomach ulcers has a positive effect on patients with peptic ulcer.

Introduction: In traditional and modern medicine, active ingredients of medicinal plants have many applications in food, pharmaceutical, medical and industry. Antioxidants are compounds that prevent the oxidation process in the cell. Echium amoenum L. is a plant which grows in the mountainous regions of Mazandaran. This plant has different biological effects such as sedation, anti-inflammation, antidepressant and cancer preventive properties in traditional medicine. The aim of this study was to determine the total phenolic, flavonoid contents and antioxidant capacity of the methanolic extract of E.amoenum plant.Methods: In this experimental laboratory study the content of total phenolic Using the folin-siokalatio reactive at 760 nm wavelength and flavonoid With the use of aluminum chloride reagent at 420nm of E.amoenum extract were measured and antioxidant capacities of different concentrations of the extract were evaluated.Results: The results showed that total phenolic content of the extract was 429±2mg gallic acid equivalent/ml and flavonoid content was 148.56±1.52mg quercetin equivalent/ml, respectively. The radical scavenging activity by 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazyl hydrate (DPPH),inhibitory concentration of 50%(IC50),was determined 178.11 mg/ml. Assessment of the reducing ability of extract showed that the extract had more activity than vitamin C. The percent nitric oxide trap inhibition of the extract was 57.89% and power iron chelating properties was 51.74%,that showed statistically significant difference in comparison with vitamin C and Quercetin (P=0.0473) and (P=0.0096) respectively.Conclusion: According to the results, E.amoenum extract had remarkable antioxidant capacity and can be proposed as an antioxidant compound used in the manufacture of food and pharmaceutical products.

Introduction: It has been demonstrated that the inflammatory markers such as IL-6, TNF-a and CRP are increased in STZ-diabetic rats. The present study is to investigate the effects of medicinal plants used in traditional medicine, including garlic extract; nettle leaves extract and olive extract on serum hsCRP and IL-6 and TNF-a on the rats with diabetes.Methods: Diabetes was induced in male wistar rats by single injection streptozotocin (60 mg/kg). Garlic extract, nettle leaves extract and olive extract were used one day after induction of diabetes until three weeks after STZ-diabetes induction. In this study the animals were divided into five groups: control, diabetic, diabetic + garlic extract (50 mg / kg), diabetes + Nettle leaf extract (30 mg / kg), and diabetes + Olive extract (30 mg / kg). After 21 days, serum levels of inflammatory factors were measured using ELISA kits.Results: The results showed that the serum levels of hsCRP and IL-6 and TNF-a in the target groups, the use of medicinal plants extracts, as compared to untreated diabetics have significantly decreased.Conclusion: The results showed that administration of garlic extract, nettle extract and olive extract significantly attenuated levels inflammatory markers such as IL-6, TNF-a and CRP in diabetic rats.