Médicaments et aliments : approche ethnopharmacologique = Medicines and foods : ethnopharmacological approach

Abstract

In order to establish the origine of dietetics in Arabo-Persian medicine, the Coran and the Hadith, Islamic Sacred texts, have been studied. Their quotations concerning basic dietetic notions and food products used in Arabo-Persian medicine have been taken into consideration. The second part of this study concerns patients' food, diets and dietetics mentioned in Arabo-Persian writings. According to Arabo-Persian physicians and scientists foods are classified into absolute foods, medicinal foods and food drugs. The use of foods as drugs is illustrated by three examples : fenugreek (#Trigonella foenum graecum L.), honey and garlic (#Allium sativum L.). (Résumé d'auteur