under the supervision of Professor Dr. Alaa Nafi Jassim, Director of the Center, the Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Baghdad on Wednesday morning, corresponding to February 14, 2024, and in the hall of Professor Nabila Abdel Moneim in our center, organized a workshop entitled (Side effects of medical drugs between heritage and modernity) A.M.D. delivered Muhammad Abdul Hassan Jabara, Director of the University Health Division at the University of Baghdad, speaking about modern medical drugs and alternative medicine and how to use these drugs in the correct manner and with the regularity prescribed by the doctor. Jabara added that medicines are dangerous when used incorrectly and may lead to death, mentioning the most important chronic diseases such as Blood pressure, diabetes, and endocrine diseases in general. Medications for these diseases must be used correctly. He stressed that nutrition is half the treatment, and exercise and stimulating blood circulation help to have a healthy structure free of diseases. Then, Professor Dr. Zainab Kamel Karim’s teaching lecture at our center, and the title of her lecture is Archeology. (Side effects of some poison medications according to Muslim doctors / Al-Mansouri’s book on medicine) Knowledge A drug and medicine is a healing substance that is extracted from a natural source, such as plants and animals, such as microorganisms, insects, marine organisms, and mammals. Among the drugs are what is extracted from mountain rocks, such as salts and gold salts. The drug in its natural form may be unpalatable, and its concentration within the plant may vary. From time to time, according to the climatic conditions that affect the plant, therefore, drugs are manufactured in a form acceptable to the patient through the pharmaceutical preparation, and therefore the medicine is composed of one or more drugs. Arab doctors mentioned many single and combined medicines, their benefits, uses, and methods of preparation. They also mentioned some of the harmful effects of some plant and animal medicines…
