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Medical treatment (al-mu'alaja)

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Fann 4 of Book I classifies the modes of treatment by general diseases, in thirty-two chapters 1. Ibn Sina says treatment is completed by three things: regimen with diet, the use of drugs, and manual procedures 1. The rules of regimen in quality match those of drugs, while food has its own rules of quantity: it may be withheld, reduced, adjusted or increased 1.

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The fourth fann of the Canon's first book classifies the modes of treatment by general diseases in thirty-two chapters 1. For Ibn Sina treatment is accomplished by three things: regimen and diet, the use of drugs, and the use of manual operations 1. Regimen has rules parallel to those of drugs in quality; food has rules of quantity — it may be forbidden, reduced, altered, or increased 1.

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  1. The Canon of Medicine, vol. 1 (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1999) , p.267
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