Department of Iranian Traditional Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahed University, Tehran 33191-18651, Iran.
Traditional Medicine Clinical Trial Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran 14179-53836, Iran.
J Integr Med. 2019 Mar;17(2):80-86. doi: 10.1016/j.joim.2019.01.003. Epub 2019 Jan 11.
Periconceptional care such as lifestyle plays an important impact role in offspring health. The aim of the present study was to clarify the perspective of Avicenna on periconceptional care. Avicenna (980-1037 A.D.) was one of the outstanding Persian physicians, who made great contributions to the field of medical sciences, in particular, obstetrics. In advance, Avicenna's book, Canon of Medicine, was considered to find his perspectives on periconceptional care. Then, his ideas and theories were compared to the current findings by searching the keywords in main indexing systems including PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus and Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science as well as the search engine of Google Scholar. Current investigations show that gamete quality, pregnancy outcome, and offspring health at birth and long term depend on both parents' lifestyle in pre- and periconceptional period, as well as the intrauterine environment. Avicenna believed that seminal fluid, sperm, ovum, and developing conditions in utero were influenced by the stages of food digestion and the function of some organs. On the other hand, food digestion and function of the organs also depend on each parent's lifestyle and environmental factors. He mentioned 6 principles of healthy lifestyle: exercise, nutrition, sleep and awareness, excretion of body wastes and retention of necessary materials, psychic features, as well as air and climate. Thus, a multicomponent healthy lifestyle should be considered by parents of child-bearing age in an appropriate period before and in early pregnancy as well as elimination of any disorders in parents, to give birth to more healthy offspring.
孕前保健如生活方式对后代健康起着重要的影响作用。本研究旨在阐明阿维森纳（Avicenna）关于孕前保健的观点。阿维森纳（公元 980-1037 年）是杰出的波斯医生之一，他在医学科学领域，特别是在妇产科领域做出了巨大贡献。在这之前，人们认为通过查阅《医典》这本书可以找到阿维森纳关于孕前保健的观点。然后，通过在主要索引系统（包括 PubMed/MEDLINE、Scopus 和 Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science 以及 Google Scholar 搜索引擎）中搜索关键词，比较了他的思想和理论与当前的研究结果。目前的研究表明，配子质量、妊娠结局以及出生时和长期的后代健康既取决于父母双方在孕前和孕期的生活方式，也取决于宫内环境。阿维森纳认为，精液、精子、卵子和子宫内的发育条件受到食物消化阶段和一些器官功能的影响。另一方面，食物消化和器官功能也取决于父母双方的生活方式和环境因素。他提到了健康生活方式的 6 个原则：运动、营养、睡眠和意识、身体废物的排泄和必要物质的保留、心理特征以及空气和气候。因此，育龄期父母应在适当的时间内采取多方面的健康生活方式，包括在怀孕前和孕早期，同时消除父母双方的任何疾病，以生育更健康的后代。
