"Traditional Iranian Medicine" (TIM) are different in basic theories, diagnosis and treatment methods. A common diagnostic method of them is "Pulse Diagnosis", but is used with different purposes and techniques. This article describes the similarities of pulse diagnosis raditional Iranian Medicine.

Objective To study the effect of acupuncture on systolic and diastolic blood pressure and pulse rate of patients with different diseases. Methods Blood Pressure and Pulse Rate of 106 patients older than 18 without history of needling during the last month, were measured before and immediately after every treatment session. Also history of hypertension, history of needling and acupoints were recorded for every patient. Results After acupuncture, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and pulse rate significantly decreased comparing to the levels before acupuncture (P<0.01). History of needling and hypertension did not affect the outcome of acupuncture on BP and PR (P>0.05) . There is a correlation between acupuncture in some acupoints and blood pressure or pulse rate (P<0.05 or P<0.01) . Conclusion Acupuncture in some acupoints has certain effects on blood pressure and pulse rate.

Wet cupping or full cupping is an ancient method of traditional medicine. According to historical documents the different schools of Traditional Medicine have used it. Iranian Traditional Medicine is a branch of Greece one which had an incredible role in developing that.Following, we review some of them in Iranian Traditional Medicine.To throw out a minnow to catch a whale, promote communication of both Chinese and Iranian ones.