فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

One of the most common diseases that modern medicine still has not found complete cure for various types of that is intestinal ulcer, including inflammatory bowel disease. Iranian traditional medicine (ITM) has different mechanisms and is effective in the treatment of many diseases. Therefore, in this study we reviewed the causes, diagnosis and treatment of this disease in ITM. For this purpose valid and available traditional medicine books were reviewed. In ITM intestinal ulcers were known as Sahj and ghorhe. Main Causes include abnormal humor (bile, phlegm and melancholy) passing through the intestines, dry stool, eating and drinking physic drugs and toxins. For treatment, production and passing of abnormal humors should be avoided and should help to wound healing using herbs contain mucilage. For the treatment of upper intestinal tract, oral medications and for lower intestine enema are used. According to Efficacy of Iranian medicine in treatment of different diseases for hundreds of years it seems that with more researches can arrive to good result for prevention and treatment of many diseases like intestinal ulcers.