Method of Therapy in Greco‐Arab and Islamic Medicine

In Islam, all components of existence are treated with equal importance, from breath and body to the soul and matter; both spiritual and physical health is essential. As a result, many Arab and Muslim physicians, such as Rhazes and Avicenna, proposed that the body should be treated as a whole and not just as a series of parts and organs, and that it was endowed with an ability of natural healing that depended on rest, a good diet, fresh air, and cleanliness. Avicenna noted that there were individual differences in the severity of ...