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Chapter Number:
10
Pages From:
209
To:
253
Book Title:
Herbal Supplements: Efficacy, Toxicity, Interactions with Western Drugs, and Effects on Clinical Laboratory Tests
Editor(s):
Amitava Dasgupta, Catherine A. Hammett-Stabler
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Edition:
1
ISBN:
9780470922750
Date:
Monday, March 21, 2011
Abstract:
Arab-Islamic medicine finds widespread use in most Arab and Islamic countries, which
represent about one-fifth of the world's population. The Arab and Muslim world refers in a
geopolitical sense to Muslim majority countries or countries in which Islam dominates
politically. About 25% of Muslims live in the Indian subcontinent, 20% in sub-Saharan Africa,
17% in Southeast Asia, 18% in the Arab world, and 10% in the republics of the old Soviet
Union and in China; Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan comprise 10% of the non-Arab Middle ...