Health
Rise in Iranian traditional medicine as Covid crisis grows – Financial Times
Increase in demand for ancient treatment proves contentious even as it reflects frustration with conventional medicine
In recent months, as coronavirus has ravaged Iran, more and more people have come to Ahmad Karbalaei’s 200-year-old attari, a shop selling traditional herbal medicine, in search of help.
One of his medicines is named after Imam Kazim, an infallible Imam of Shia Muslims, and is recommended by the clergy. It includes red sugar, mastic and fennel and is mixed with honey before being taken. Another is based on a prescription from Avicenna, a famous Persian physician of the 10th century, and includes…
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