Pathology of Nomenclature of Compounded Drugs in Persian Medicine Based on Gharabadin- e- Salehi, Gharabadin-e- Kabeer, and Gharabadin-e-Azam

Farzaneh Zare; Mohammad Hossein Ayati; Mohammad Reza Shams-Ardekani; Mohsen Baghbani

doi:10.18502/ijme.v16i2.15810

Farzaneh Zare MA, Department of History of Medicine, Faculty of Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad Hossein Ayati Associate Professor of Traditional Medicine, Department of Persian Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad Reza Shams-Ardekani Professor of Pharmacognosy, Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mohsen Baghbani Researcher, Persian Medicine and Pharmacy Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/ijme.v16i2.15810

Keywords: Persian Medicine, History of Medicine, Traditional Pharmacy, Combination drugs, Pathology of Nomenclature of Compounded Drugs, Gharabadin- e- Salehi, Gharabadin-e- Kabeer, and Gharabadin-e- Azam

Abstract

Drug title is one of the important tools for recognizing and evaluating a combination drug and also analyzing its content. However, sometimes due to the existence of problems that is considered a kind of pathology in this field, is tarnished. The present study tries to identify the problems of nomenclature of compounded drugs. The names of combination drugs available in this research have been collected from three books in traditional pharmacy, namely Gharabadin-e-Salehi, Gharabadin-e- Kabeer, and Gharabadin-e- Azam, related to 18th and 19th centuries. The results showed that there are 5 major problems in nomenclature of compounded drugs: (1) several names for one drug with various formulations, (2) one name for drugs with various formulations, (3) a great deal of variation in unnamed drugs, (4) some unknown pharmaceutical dosage forms, and (5) being dosage forms at one with route of administration and mechanism of action. The study exposes combination drugs in Persian medicine have named concerning various patterns. For this reason, there is non-cooperation that feels a need to special investigation.