[Arab-Islamic medicine in the 12th century from the Persian ancient book Chahar Maghaleh].

The book named Chahar Maghaleh(Four Discourses) is written by Nizami Aruzi Samarqandi, a Persian writer in twelfth century. The book records 12 stories that can be regarded as medical records. Through the analysis of the 12 cases, we can get a lot of Arabia-Islamic medical information before and after 12th century, including basic concepts, medical academic origin, diagnostic methods, treatment methods and other content.That reflects the medieval Arabia-Persian society medical level.Compared with traditional Chinese medicine, ancient Arabia-Persian society had distinct features in medicine, food therapy, external therapy, psychotherapy and other fields; in the treatment of ideas and methods of diagnosis, they share some similarity with traditional Chinese medicine.