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Medical contributions made by medieval Islam included the use of plants as a type of remedy or medicine. The Hippocratics believed more warmth in the woman leads to the woman having a "better" color and leads to the production of a male offspring while more coldness in the woman leads to her having an "uglier" color, leading to her producing a female offspring. Ali al-Ruhawi believed that a physician must be a botanist and understand pharmacological characteristics of the various morphological parts. Al-Razi cites Greek, Syrian, Indian and earlier Arabic works, and also includes medical cases from his own experience. Honey is composed of water, simple and complex sugars, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, and several different vitamins known to be conducive to good health.

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Many religious scholars and medieval physicians of the time agreed on the importance of contraceptive alternatives due to the legal rights of women. Thus, hot ailments such as a fever should be addressed by consuming a cucumber and a cool ailment such as a significant amount of phlegm should be treated with the pepper.

D rested on the engagement between Nestorian Christians from the Byzantine empire and the Abbasid ruling elite. Physicians like al-Razi wrote about the importance of morality in medicine, and may have presented, together with Avicenna and Ibn al-Nafis, the first concept of ethics or "practical philosophy" in Islamic medicine. The translation of the capital of the emerging Islamic world to Damascus may have facilitated this contact, as Syrian medicine was part of that ancient tradition. Ibn Buṭlān, otherwise known as Yawānīs al-Mukhtār ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbdūn al-Baghdādī, was an Arab physician who was active in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age. These sources testify to the fact that the physicians of the emerging Islamic society were familiar with the classical medical traditions already at the times of the Umayyads.

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So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels. Greek and Syriac texts were translated into Arabic as the Hellenic period of scientific pursuit transitioned into the Islamic empire.

Treatments used by followers of this method often include treating infertile women with substances that are similar to fertilizer. In Islam, prophetic medicine ( Arabic: الطب النبوي, 'al-Tibb al-nabawī) is the advice given by the Islamic prophet Muhammad with regards to sickness, treatment and hygiene as found in the hadith. Ayatollah Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani announced that he had been infected by COVID-19, but had cured himself, three weeks before being hospitalized.

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Black seed is said to help with digestion, and it also contains antihistamine, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and analgesic properties.During the post-classical era, Middle Eastern medicine was the most advanced in the world, integrating concepts of ancient Greek, Roman, Mesopotamian and Persian medicine as well as the ancient Indian tradition of Ayurveda, while making numerous advances and innovations.

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Ayatollah Haeri-Shirazi and Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi were both also said by their families to have long delayed seeking standard medical, using "Islamic medicine" instead.Women would also seek the care of other women, and the role of women as practitioners appears in a number of works despite the male dominance within the medical field. Along with Al-Jawziyya, Al-Suyuti also included commentary that spoke to dealing with contagion and thus was relevant to the Black Death in the Islamic world.