Hot and Cold Theory: The Path Towards Personalized Medicine

This book is about the theory of Hot and Cold, a mutual fundamental base of traditional medicines all around the world. The theory describes the dynamic balance state of the body on the axis of hot and cold for each individual and proposes the fact that deviation from this equilibrium is a predisposing factor for diseases. Such an approach helps practitioners to provide treatments tailored to the patient's condition, not the disease.

This book, for the first time, has gathered native descriptions of Hot and Cold theory in different traditional medicines, including traditional Chinese medicine, Persian (Humoral, Unani) medicine, Ayurvedic medicine and Latin American and Caribbean medicines. After defining the common ground, contemporary research - in nutrition, pharmacology, physiology and systems biology - has been explored using scientific methodology. This work is the result of an international collaboration of more than 30 scientists and scholars with high reputations in their fields.

Hot and Cold theory, as a holistic individualized approach in prevention, diagnosis and treatment, can be merged into the novel fast-paced concepts in systems biology and precision medicine. Through this bridge, the authors propose that the Hot and Cold theory should be revisited more deeply by medical scientists, who are the main audience of this book, to pave the way towards integrated holistic personalized medicine.

Autorentext
Maryam Yavari, M.D., Ph.D., N.D. is a medical graduate of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. She has been a research scholar at Duke University Clinical Research Institute. She then pursued a Ph.D. degree in traditional humoral (Persian) medicine at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and worked as an assistant professor at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. She received a naturopathic medicine doctorate (N.D.) from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) and is currently working as a resident and clinic supervisor at CCNM. She has been active in medical education, research and development for her entire career. Her passion for evidence-based practice, holistic integrative medicine, medical education and research contributed to holding and instructing more than 40 academic courses and workshops and directing or mentoring several research projects. She has authored or coauthored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, 7 scientific books and has received 17 awards and grants in her endeavours in science and clinical practice.

Inhalt

Hot and cold theory: Introduction

Maryam Yavari Hot and cold theory: science or pseudoscience

Giovanni Federspil, Roberto Vettor, Mehdi Movahed Abtahi Hot and cold theory: definitions and beliefs

Hot and cold theory in Persian medicine

Mohsen Naseri, Rasool Choopani

Hot and cold theory in Chinese medicine

Zun-Ji Ke, Chenchen Wang, Xu Hongxi Hot and cold theory in Ayurvedic medicine

Anjali Dhiraj singh, Basavaiah Ravishankar, Aruna Agrawal, Satish Chand Gupta Hot and cold theory in Korean medicine

Kun Hyung Kim

Hot and cold theory in South American medicine

Alan Harwood

Hot and cold theory in European medicine

Erna Janish, Fabio Firenzuoli

Hot and cold theory: scientific evidences

Evidences in nutrition science

Mohsen Naseri, Muhammad Usama Ashhar

Evidences in pharmacology science

Xu Hongxi, Roja Rahimi, Alan L.Harvey, Xijun Wang

Evidences in physiology

Mehrdad Karimi, Maryam Yavari

Evidences in molecular medicine

Jianping Ye Evidences in psychology

Poone Haghani

Hot and cold theory: A holistic personalized medicine

Leroy Hood

Conclusion and future perspective

Maryam Yavari, Mehrdad Karimi

Index