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Tradition and Perspectives of Greco-Arab and Islamic Herbal Medicine

Chapter Number: 
10
Authors: 
Bashar Saad, Omar Said
Pages From: 
209
To: 
253
Book Title: 
Herbal Supplements: Efficacy, Toxicity, Interactions with Western Drugs, and Effects on Clinical Laboratory Tests
Editor(s): 
Amitava Dasgupta, Catherine A. Hammett-Stabler
Publisher: 
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Edition: 
1
ISBN: 
9780470922750
Date: 
Monday, March 21, 2011
Abstract: 
Arab-Islamic medicine finds widespread use in most Arab and Islamic countries, which represent about one-fifth of the world's population. The Arab and Muslim world refers in a geopolitical sense to Muslim majority countries or countries in which Islam dominates politically. About 25% of Muslims live in the Indian subcontinent, 20% in sub-Saharan Africa, 17% in Southeast Asia, 18% in the Arab world, and 10% in the republics of the old Soviet Union and in China; Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan comprise 10% of the non-Arab Middle ...