فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Epilepsy is a chronic disease, with overall incidence of 0.5% to 1%. Despite numerous treatments and antiepileptic drugs in allopathic medicine, 30% of epileptics suffer from uncontrolled seizures. In today's medicine, epilepsy is classified into generalized and focal seizures, due to symptoms and signs and brain involvement level. Abdominal seizure is a kind of focal seizure. Iranian traditional medicine as a rich source provides different categories and treatments for this disease. In this study, we addressed viewpoints of Iranian traditional medicine physicians on gastric shared epilepsy. This kind of epilepsy appears because of gastric problems and its seizures could be controlled by treating these problems. This study provides a comparison between gastric shared epilepsy and abdominal seizure, according to their causes, symptoms and treatments. In gastric shared epilepsy in Iranian traditional medicine, treatment is focused on stomach and strengthening the brain is also attended to. According to this study, in some epileptics, treating gastric problems has noticeable impacts on the process of disease therapy, about which clinical trial is suggested.