Optimal fluid intake in daily diet: Avicenna's view.
10.1016/S2095-4964(16)60262-5
- Author:
Majid NIMROUZI
1
;
Vahid TAFAZOLI
1
;
Babak DANESHFARD
1
;
Manijhe ZARE
2
Author Information
1. Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
2. Essence of Parsiyan Wisdom Institute, Phytopharmaceutical Technology and Traditional Medicine Incubator, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Journal of Integrative Medicine
2016;14(4):241-244
- CountryChina
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Adequate daily water consumption is an important factor of keeping regular homeostasis. However, the best quantity of daily water consumption for a healthy individual is not virtually stated in the literature. Despite the dearth of evidence-based recommendations, it is commonly thought that ingesting eight glasses of water a day is good for a healthy person. Avicenna had a unique viewpoint. He believed that daily water intake depended on numerous elements together with age, intercourse, body temperament, season, occupation and various internal and external elements. He also cited a few essential and useful measures regarding proper water consumption, which have additionally been emphasized in Islamic hadiths.
