Relationship between Temperaments of herbal diuretics and their ‎effects based on Avicenna's Teaching

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There is growing interest in the health benefits of botanical diuretics. (1-2) ýAvicenna (980-1037 AD), the foremost Iranian physician,ýþ þintroduced ýnumerous herbs as diuretics in his renowned book of Canon of Medicine. (3)ý
Avicenna and his followers have recommended herbal diuretics for most ýailments accompanied by fluid superabundance like lassitude, oedema, and ýascites. (4) It was believed that diuretic herbs cause the excretion of the body’s ýwaste through the urine and cleanse body fluid from putrefaction. (3) ý
In the concept of Avicenna diuretic botanicals act as a specific carrier for ýurogenital drugs which facilitate drug delivery to the urinary system. He has ýmentioned that some herbal diuretics are lithotriptic and can expel deposited ýmaterials through urine, thus preventing kidney calculi. (5) ý