[ use of atrifel sagir and its components in obesity]

Itrifal -Saghir or Triphala [tri = three and phala = fruits] is one of the oldest and commonly used polyherbal preparation. It is a botanical preparation include equal parts of three herbal fruits: Phyllanthus emblica., Terminalia chebula Retz and Terminalia belerica Retz. This study focuses on the indiations and components of Atrifel Sagir in obesity. Research resources include important traditional medicine book such as Al-Qanoon Fel Teb, Kolasetol hekma, Makzan al adviyeh and databases such as Google Scholar, Pub Med, Web of Science, SID and Iran Medex. Search terms were "Triphala", "Atrifal -Saghir", "Itrifal -Saghir" and "obesity" without narrowing or limiting search elements, with any outcome in humans and animals. There are a variety of indications for Atrifal - Saghir as described in Al-Qanoon Fel Teb such as purifies stomach enabling it for better coction. It is good for expels the phlegm. Its oral intake is useful for treating cases melancholy and anti-obesity. It strengthens the stomach by improving its capacity of coction assimilation and in improving relaxity and moistness of the stomach

first medical text in preventive medicine written in Islamic world

Medical books written in Islamic societies have devoted special chapters to preventive medicine named Hefzossehha'. Nowadays, Ferdous Alhekmah is considered as the first medical text authored by Muslim scientists in Islamic countries. But in this review study we offer a more ancient text that belongs to Ali Ibn Musa [Imam Reza PBUH], the 8th Imam of shi'ites. This text was written about 815-818 AD while Imam Reza was in Marv, the Abbasid's capital city during the al-Ma'mun's governance [813-833]. This precedes the book of Tabari [810-855], Ferdous Alhekmah. This text was written specifically about preventive medicine and contains nutritional patterns; the effect of weather, sleep, four temperaments and humors on health; personal hygiene; cupping and phlebotomy; health care in travels; sex hygiene and its influence on fetus health and prevention of some especial diseases. This text was different from many books in this field in some ways. Thus, al-Ma'mun commanded some scribes to write the text with gold and therefore it is famous to "Resaleh Zahabieh" which means golden letter