Department of Traditional Medicine, The School of Iranian Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran.
J Complement Integr Med. 2020 Jun 19;18(1):29-36. doi: 10.1515/jcim-2019-0273.
As time goes on, a greater number of people experience an age of more than 60 years old and subsequently geriatric syndromes are increasingly more common. Despite recent improvements in modern healthy living, literature on traditional Persian medicine (TPM) about the prevention and treatment of such syndromes and healthy living of the elderly is hardly known. We aimed, in this study, to explore some traditional Persian sources and briefly explain their writers' beliefs on keeping healthy living for old people. We used several TPM sources and literature, and then based on these texts, we collected issues about geriatric temperament and syndromes and classified the results including exercise, nutrition, massage, bathing, aromatherapy, and sleeping. Our search yielded some recommendations about a healthy lifestyle for the elderly, which are in fact equivalent to primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive measures in modern medicine. Our results also showed that they believed such modifications would help the elderly to improve their geriatric conditions. In general, TPM provides some pieces of advice to prevent and treat geriatric syndromes that may be helpful in practice although the scope of their effectiveness remains to be examined in carefully designed randomized controlled trials.
随着时间的推移，越来越多的人年龄超过 60 岁，因此老年综合征越来越常见。尽管现代健康生活方式最近有所改善，但关于预防和治疗这些综合征以及老年人健康生活的传统波斯医学（TPM）文献却鲜为人知。在这项研究中，我们旨在探索一些传统波斯医学资源，并简要解释其作者关于保持老年人健康生活的信念。我们使用了几种 TPM 资源和文献，然后根据这些文本收集了关于老年气质和综合征的问题，并对结果进行了分类，包括运动、营养、按摩、沐浴、芳香疗法和睡眠。我们的研究结果表明，TPM 提供了一些关于老年人健康生活方式的建议，这些建议实际上相当于现代医学中的一级、二级和三级预防措施。我们的研究结果还表明，他们认为这些改变将有助于老年人改善他们的老年状况。总的来说，TPM 提供了一些预防和治疗老年综合征的建议，尽管其有效性范围仍需要在精心设计的随机对照试验中进行检查，但这些建议在实践中可能会有所帮助。
