A review on the treatment of pulmonary and respiratory diseases according to Ibn Sina, Plants and their bioactive components Nelly Suryani, Ofa Suzanti Betha, Yardi, Zahara Faiziah Nurkholiza
UIN Syarif Hidayatullah
Abstract
Al-Qanun Fil Tibb has important scientific and historical value. It was the principal medical textbook in European universities from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. Al-Qanun Fil Tibb is said to be the oldest textbook on principles of medicine and medicine used as a reference source compared to other books. In his second book of the five volumes of the Al-Qanun, Ibn Sina compiled a monograph of medicinal ingredients derived from plants, animals, and minerals along with their properties and effects on various diseases and important human organs, their uses as cosmetics, how to use them, and their effects on temperament. humans and descriptions of the medicinal ingredients. Lungs and respiration is one of the important organs according to Ibn Sina. In the Al-Qanun, Ibn Sina has identified many medicinal ingredients in the form of plants that provide certain activities on the lungs and respiration as well as the diseases that appear in both. Potential development of medicine in this field can come from plants that have been used by Ibn Sina. This study aims to explore the components of secondary metabolites from plants that have activity on lung and respiratory organs in the Al-Qanun book with the literature review method. From this study, it was found that these plants contain secondary metabolites of flavonoids, terpenes, tannins, lignans, saponins, anthraquinones, glucosinolates, phenolic acids, secoiridoids, steroids, and alkaloids as major components and flavonoids are the most dominant compounds found as the main component in the plant
Keywords: Ibn Sina, Canon of Medicine, AlQanun fil Tibb, Lung, respiratory disease, Secondary metabolite,
